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Black Friday: 10 great NASCAR black paint schemes

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Paint it black

What better way to celebrate Black Friday than with 1o very cool black paint schemes from throughout NASCAR history? Whether you’re braving the mall today or just chowing down on leftovers, just remember to paint it black.

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Bill Elliott

One of the very first cars to launch the NASCAR special paint scheme was Bill Elliott’s “Thunderbat,” which he ran in 1995 as part of a promotion with sponsor McDonald’s and the film “Batman Forever.”

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Kurt Busch

Given that Monster Energy could well be the next NASCAR Premier Series title sponsor, Busch’s Monster Energy-sponsored No. 41 Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolet is a good fit here.

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Marshall Teague

“The Fabulous Hudson Hornet.” Does anything else really need to be said? Hudsons dominated the early days of NASCAR and became the inspiration for Paul Newman’s Doc Hudson character in “Cars.”

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Fireball Roberts

Car owner and mechanical genius Smokey Yunick used to field cars with very simple but elegant paint jobs: Gold over black. NASCAR Hall of Fame driver Fireball Roberts drove one of Yunick’s Pontiacs to victory in the 1962 Daytona 500.

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Dale Earnhardt Jr.

NASCAR’s perennially most popular driver broke a 143-race winless streak at Michigan International Speedway in 2012, when he drove to victory in the No. 88 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet with a special paint scheme from another Batman film, “The Dark Knight Rises.”

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Rusty Wallace

One of the most iconic paint schemes in NASCAR history was Wallace’s Miller Genuine Draft scheme that he ran fro 1990-96. Simple, clean and distinctive, the black and gold colors were fan favorites.

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Buck Baker

In 1957, just as the Detroit Big Three automakers were officially pulling out of auto racing, Chevrolet set up a skunkworks operation to build 1957 Chevrolets to compete in NASCAR. Known as “The Black Widow,” these tricked up Chevys dominated NASCAR in 1957, with Baker winning the Premier Series title.

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Davey Allison

At the fastest NASCAR tracks, the black No. 28 Havoline-sponsored Robert Yates Racing Ford of Davey Allison was always one of the cars to beat. Allison took the No. 28 to victory in the 1992 Daytona 500, one of five races he won that year.

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Dale Earnhardt

The black No. 3  was absolutely the most feared car on the track from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s and no one ever drove harder than Earnhardt, who earned the nicknames “The Intimidator” and “The Man in Black.” Five of Earnhardt’s seven championships came in the black No 3 with GM Goodwrench sponsorship.

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Buddy Baker

In 1980, Baker drove a Harry Ranier-owned 1980 Oldsmobile to victory in the Daytona 500, setting a speed record of 177.602 miles per hour that still stands today. The car was nicknamed “The Gray Ghost,” although the sides of the car and the number on the roof were black. Dale Earnhardt Jr. has said this is favorite paint scheme of all time and chose it for last year’s throwback race at Darlington, which he unfortunately missed because of a concussion.

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