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Mad respect for Big Daddy and proud to call him a friend.
As for the name part, I guess Steve Torrance and Mike Salinas could do that. But I'm struggling with Ron Capps telling NAPA that his name needs to be bigger than theirs.
Alan

 

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I guess like in NASCAR, certain drivers become synonymous with their car colors and sponsor. Dale Earnhardt could change some portions of his car design but it had to be a black number 3 Chevrolet. My inflatable #3 from the Daytona in which we lost him has Oreo cookies as a main sponsor. Same with Capps. If it’s NAPA , blue and yellow, we know who it is. Except for when he does the tribute car schemes. Other drivers change teams and sponsors so much it’s hard to keep up. So put their name in big letters first and then the sponsor gets the rest. Until they get a following their name should be first. When Montana brands sponsored Austin Prock, I thought it was a drink! It was industrial drill bits. How many spectators know, care or bought any drill bits from them?
Like Capps, we all know who this was even with the huge sponsor name on it...

 

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Mad respect for Big Daddy and proud to call him a friend.
As for the name part, I guess Steve Torrance and Mike Salinas could do that. But I'm struggling with Ron Capps telling NAPA that his name needs to be bigger than theirs.
Alan

With all due respect, in my opinion knowing those three..Id say the odds of Steve putting his name as the marquis on his car would be 9 out of 10 no, Mike would be like 100 out of 10 no...Capps...probably 10 out of 10 no...as you say not arguing, just discussing...I could see guys like Rupert or B Littlefield or Larry Jr doing tributes to their dads...which would be awesome, but also unlikely..which sucks for the rest of us...would love to see throwback style paint jobs designed by Blood or Pugh or any number of old school guys...but were kinda stuck right now...times are a changing though right?

 

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With all due respect, in my opinion knowing those three..Id say the odds of Steve putting his name as the marquis on his car would be 9 out of 10 no, Mike would be like 100 out of 10 no...

Not a case of no, they wouldn't but Alan was pointing out that yes, they could seeing as both Salinas and Torrence are self-sponsored. They could have stuck Let's Go, Brandon! and displayed the cars at Trump rallies had they chosen to do so. Not that they would; Salinas in particular is way too reserved to shine the light on himself. But he COULD.

Garlits understandably longs for drag racing's glory days. Not that it was necessarily better or easier. But 1 on 1 relationships between drivers, their cars and the fans were what helped make drag racing fun, exciting and personal. It's why John Force will be remembered forever - not because he won 16 championships but because he was - John Force.

Sadly, there's not nearly enough personality in racing anymore and the sport, in that respect, is for the worse on account of it. Garlits knows it's not coming back; knows STEVE TORRENCE isn't going to be on the side of the Capco car in foot-tall letters anytime soon. But that doesn't mean his heart forgot what that meant back in the day when the person in the seat who often built the engine and the car itself - like Garlits - WAS drag racing, not the sponsors.