Welcome to the 50th Reel Racing Article Spectacular!
It occurred to me to wonder how many entries of this article series I’d written, and it turned out last week’s edition was No. 49. So for the 50th, I decided to add a special entry in the list. Listing 50 schemes felt like too much, so I’m going to whittle it down to 25 (with 10 honorable mentions).
I compiled an image library of all — roughly — 150 movie-themed paint schemes that have ever run. There’s a few more than that, though some (like Tomy Drissi‘s 2013 NASCAR Cup and then-Nationwide series, now NASCAR Xfinity Series, schemes for The Counselor) are quite similar if not exactly similar to one another.
Coming up soon will be an article series that’ll serve as a living document and chronicle of movie schemes, where I’ll go through decade by decade and detail the schemes, race they competed in and more. For now, though, let’s get going with article No. 50. I’ll include some reasoning here and there.
Feel free to comment your favorites below. Rest assured, we’re diving headlong into this as the year rolls on.
Honorable Mentions (Nos. 30-26)
25. Kyle Busch, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Cup, 2009)
Flames always make for great schemes, and this just happened to be the best of three liveries made for the second Transformers movie.
24. Stanton Barrett, Navy Seals vs. Zombies (Nationwide, 2015)
It’s not every day you get to drive a paint scheme with a movie you directed on it, but Barrett did just that back in 2015. And he did it three times. This and the following scheme are pretty even given they’re really similar, but both work really damn well with the scenes and logos for the film mixed together.
23. Stanton Barrett, Navy Seals vs. Zombies (Craftsman Truck Series, 2015)
I talked with Stanton a few years back about working in both NASCAR and Hollywood for three decades. This one is similar enough to the Xfinity Series car to where I don’t need to expound on it much, but a truck has even more space to work with, and they filled it with scenes and stuff from the movie.
Plus, the military-esque No. 91 on the doors and roof look even better and more appropriate for the movie than the No. 15 on the first car.
22. Kyle Busch, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (Busch Series, now Xfinity, 2004)
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