Some colors and cars go together like they were meant to be. Back in the mid 1970s, John Player Special race cars were distinguishable by their gold on black livery. Later a similar color scheme was coopted by Hollywood when the movie “Smokey and the Bandit” used a gold on black Pontiac Firebird Trans Am prominently in the film. Suddenly every Trans Am was gold on black.
Ford Motor Company is identified by the blue Ford oval and Carol Shelby used blue and white on many of his racing cars perhaps as a nod to Ford’s sponsorship. Muscle cars often wore outrageous colors to characterize their enormous horsepower. Who could forget Chrysler’s Mopar performance division colors like Plum Crazy purple and Go Mango orange or Panther pink and Sassy Grass green. Chevy explored more reserved colors but with wide parallel stripes on the hood and trunk lids to set apart their SS or Super Sport performance packages.
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