Retro cool: NASCAR Throwback schemes from every angle 2018

By NASCAR | Published: August 31, 2018 61

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Kyle Busch and Ernie Irvan have the rainbow connection this weekend, with the Skittles livery honoring Irvan's paint scheme 20 years later.

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Needing a win, perhaps Ricky Stenhouse Jr. will run like a Deere into Victory Lane. This John Deere scheme was prevalent at Roush Fenway Racing from 1997-2000.

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Honoring Cale Yarborough? Never a bad idea. Well played, Paul Menard and Wood Brothers Racing.

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Do we really need to tell you that William Byron's rainbow look is an homage to Jeff Gordon?

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Like father, like son. Ryan Blaney has fond memories of his father Dave driving a similar look in 2002-03.

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Jimmie Johnson has had plenty of memorable Lowe's schemes over the years. He drove this one to Victory Lane at Darlington in 2012.

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In his final full-time season, Kasey Kahne will lean back to his BEST full time season. That was 2006, when he sported this paint scheme and won six races.

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Better luck this time? Kurt Busch's Stewart-Haas Racing Ford looks just like the one he used in 2003, when he fell short of victory by an agonizing .002 seconds.

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Good luck charm for Clint Bowyer? Ned Jarrett used this paint scheme in 1965 and won the Bojangles' Southern 500 by 14 laps, the largest margin of victory in series history.

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No words needed for this beauty Bubba Wallace gets to drive, an original Petty blue-solid car.

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All throwback schemes mean something, but this one means a little more. Chase Elliott honors his late cousin Casey Elliott this weekend.

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As he often does, Brad Keselowski is paying tribute to Rusty Wallace, who won twice in the red-and-gold tinged scheme in 1990.

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Derrike Cope's Bojangles' look is especially fitting on this Bojangles' Southern 500 weekend.

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Matt DiBenedetto -- he's electric! Or, his car is at least with this pink, blue and white design modeled after Jeff Burton's look from 1996-2000.

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Joey Logano's car is a tribute to a similar scheme that Steve Park where for Dale Earnhardt Inc. from 1998 to 2003.

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Landon Cassill's No. 00 Chevrolet for StarCom Racing pays homage to Bobby Allison's Miller High Life Car. Team manager Derrike Cope and Allison have a long standing relationship that includes Cope's stint driving for Allison.

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Denny Hamlin's throwback is the spitting image of his first mini stock car he drove in 1997 at Langley Speedway and Southside Speedway.

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Erik Jones' ride sports a look similar to that of spotter Rick Carelli from his driving career (running from 1992-2003). Carelli has been a spotter for Jones the past two seasons.

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