Horrorshow Posted November 3, 2022 Posted November 3, 2022 In the early 70’s, Junior Johnson approached RJ Reynolds tobacco about sponsoring his race team. Tobacco had been banned from advertising on television so they had lots of unused funds. Not sure what happened but they ultimately decided to sponsor the sport and the Winston Cup was created. By sponsoring the series they were effectively able to freeze out other tobacco companies from the sport. This left Junior without a sponsor, but he ended up with Bobby Allison as his driver with Bobby’s Coca Cola sponsorship coming with him. Junior’s cars had a variety of different numbers over the years. They ended up with #12, which Bobby took with him, along with Coke the following season. The next season Junior changed to his familiar #11 which he kept until he sold the team. So what if Winston decided to sponsor the team? This is the AMT Bobby Allison Coke Monte Carlo kit. The Winston decals are from Three Amigos. The rest are a mix of powerslide and kit decals. I will be building several more tobacco themed 70’s cars in the future.
spencer1984 Posted November 4, 2022 Posted November 4, 2022 Looks good, nice work! 3 hours ago, Horrorshow said: I will be building several more tobacco themed 70’s cars in the future. If you're taking requests, I'd love to see some of the European paint jobs interpreted on American vehicles - the JPS Lotus, Marlboro Lancia, and Gitanes Ligier are some of my all-time favorite liveries.
Horrorshow Posted November 4, 2022 Author Posted November 4, 2022 17 minutes ago, spencer1984 said: Looks good, nice work! If you're taking requests, I'd love to see some of the European paint jobs interpreted on American vehicles - the JPS Lotus, Marlboro Lancia, and Gitanes Ligier are some of my all-time favorite liveries. 17 minutes ago, spencer1984 said: Looks good, nice work! If you're taking requests, I'd love to see some of the European paint jobs interpreted on American vehicles - the JPS Lotus, Marlboro Lancia, and Gitanes Ligier are some of my all-time favorite liveries. Two of the three are in the planning
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