Saturday, February 9, 2013

2013 Paint Schemes

With the Daytona 500 just around the corner, we've been eagerly watching as each teams' paint schemes are unveiled for the upcoming NASCAR season. With marquee sponsors paying as much as $20 million a year to sponsor a ride, a lot of effort is put into each design. Longtime readers of this blog will know that we've shared some of our favorite paint schemes in past posts.

So far, Richard Childress Racing will be sporting a pair of the sharpest schemes this year. Austin Dillon will kick off the season with a Daytona paint scheme featuring Honey Nut Cheerios, and Jeff Burton will run six races with regular ol' Cheerios on the hood:




Do you have a favorite of the two?

Personally, we still have a soft spot for our previous favorite Cheerios paint job, seen here on Johnny Benson's '98 Taurus: