NASCAR '15 Victory Edition - Davey Allison #28 Texaco Havoline Throwback Paint Scheme

After starting with the simple black paint scheme the #28 Havoline team ran in the 90s, I decided to try my hand at the more slick livery from the late 80s. This is in the style of what Davey Allison he ran when he battled it out with father Bobby for the 1988 Daytona 500.

I tried to use the gradients to provide a bit of sense of the golden numbers and sponsorship decals they used back then. I might create a variant with blacked out headlights as well. Since he ran a Ford Thunderbird for most of that run, I decided to go with the Ford Fusion body. I think it could still work in modern times.

NASCAR '15 - Texaco Havoline #28 - Paint Scheme 01

Running default paint schemes is boring, so before I hit the online races for NASCAR '15: Victory Edition, I whipped up a quick Davey Allison throwback, with a bit of variation. This time around I'm going to try to remix classic schemes a bit more - try to come up with new versions that are a bit different from the classics.
For this one, I decided the Texaco logo on the side would have eventually become more prominent, and been displayed on the tail a bit more how the old STP logos used to be. I used the lame un-resizable default numbers, though, so this probably won't be the last version of this car I make. The key is to create a paint scheme that's good enough for the short term, then slowly tweak it over time until you have a great one.

With that in mind, here is my quick-and-dirty mockup:

#28 Davey Allison Texaco Havoline Ford Thunderbird

Returning to traditional paint schemes, here is the old 28 Texaco Havoline Ford Thunderbird Davey Allison was running for Robert Yates Racing before his life was cut short. Ernie Irvan then took over the car.

#28 Cale Yarborough Hardee's Ford Thunderbird

Cale Yarborough was a three time NASCAR champ and winner of 83 events. So for one of my first non Bill Elliott cars I decided to take the basic custom '85 Thunderbird grill work and Ford logo to recreate his old Hardee's #28. He actually put on some good runs against Awesome Bill that year, and I think he may be one of the more underrated legends of the sport, if one could be a legend and underrated at the same time. His fight in the 78 Daytona 500 gets all the highlights, when his performance on track and personality off track was arguably more interesting. Either way, this car isn't very hard to replicate in-game at all. Give it a shot, if you want to pay tribute to one of NASCAR's greats.

 

Just remember to include the black line in the transition between the red hood and white body, as well as the slight point there in the center of the hood.