Looking for things to talk about here and I got thinking about colors of race cars... and how all these year's later, what cars come to mind when a particular color is mentioned.... 

So for this week... let's start with "ORANGE."

It could be a modified/sportsman, dirt/asphalt, sprint car, street stock/late model, stock car, indy car.... whatever, as long as it is a car that you think of when "ORANGE" race car is mentioned:

So, what cars and or driver's do you remember driving ORANGE cars?

Please provide car #, driver's name, and track raced at if you think it'll help us know which car you're referring to.

Let's see what you guys come up with....

Richie Evans, #61

Ed Mumford Z8 Orange Crate

Bobby Hauer# 9, Reading, Nazareth. Leon Harrison 76 Flemington, Nazareth. Of course, Richie Evans # 61 Jack Johnson and Kevin Collins #12 Johnny Rutherford #3 McLaren, first Indy win I think 1973.

Three cars immediately come to mind. 1) #61 Richie Evans  2) #12 Gil Hearne  3) #12a Jack Johnson. I know there are many others but my mind goes straight to these three.

Eddie Mumford Z8

In the early to mid 60s, Hoop Schiable's orange # 95 coupe at Nazareth and Flemigton.  In the late 60s, Walt Olsen would show up on occasion in Fable Racing Enterprises # 5 orange sedan modified.  There's a photo of the coupe version somewhere in 3Wide.  The car was out of Connecticut.  Scott Ely

Ron Shuman, Ofixco 21 sprint car.

Bill Ehret #88 late model at Mahoning Valley, the first car I ever crewed on.

Mid 70's / early 80's, Bruce Thompson's Modifieds were orange #14T.  When Bruce went sprint car racing, color was switched to yellow. Yellow became the trademark color with Len's #10.  Tradition carries on today with grandson Mike Thompson's #11.

Gil Hearn 12, Fran Hogue 239, Bob Rossel 56, Bill "Mau" Mitchell 42, Bill Beasley 421, Jim Goedeke 6,

Vita Fresh Orange Juice Spl.,  several different indy cars over the years.

George Amerman, modified #39 sedan, raced at Harmony, Flemington.

Danny "The Doctor Johnson 27J Modified ran upstate NY and made occasional trips to Flemington, Nazerth, and Middletown. http://www.3widespicturevault.com/BETW_BOARD_pics_vitals/c02.26.06_14M_SLO_FLM_0086V_1.htm 

Kirk Horton # 7k ran with the Modifieds at OCFS - https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=6424635864252840&set=pcb.6424636137586146

Kyle Sisco ran the #12 at Wall Stadium in the Sportsman division a few years back. https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=AwrEucNoRl9m3.wBwbNXNyoA;_ylu=Y29sbwNiZjEEcG9zAzEEdnRpZAMEc2VjA3BpdnM-?p=kyle+sisco+race+car&fr2=piv-web&type=E211US105G0&fr=mcafee#id=0&iurl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FmZCvQIib2PQ%2Fmaxresdefault.jpg&action=click

Bogars's 99.

Bobby Hauer#9, Bob Johnson #657...

Dornberger #9 orange crate coupe

McLaren Racing Team cars throughout the years, particularly Bruce McLaren, Denis Hulme, Dan Gurney, Peter Revson in the old Can-Am series of the late 60s/early 70s.

Elton Hildreth 16-J

        Tom D.

Frank and Mike Lorenzi 29A and 29B. Flemington late 70's early 80's

Charlie Kremer & Jamie Tomaino both piloted this version of the X9. This photo is Charlie Kremer behind the wheel with Jamie's name on the roof.

Ray Cook # 87 at Middletown

Dickie Lewis 9x my 25H was orange and white at times

Always loved orange on a racecard, loved the 16q of paul Rochelle at flemington.

11D Billy Pauch jr and Meme Desantis in the 60

Bruce Young

Dickie Lewis 9X.East Windsor

The following are notes I recorded when I visited George Amerman at his hone in Budd Lake in May 2012:

George remembered that as a boy in Mt.Tabor he had build a soap box car with orange wheels and rode it on a hill in front of his mother's house.  This was the inspiration for painting the car orange.  Also the inspiration for naming his later stock cars "Orange Crate" but he did not use this nickname on this first car.  The inspiration for the #39 came from the fact that this first stock car was a 1939  Ford sedan and also the fact that George was born in 1939.  He began racing in 1963 and ran the sedan for 2 or 3 years at Flemington and Harmony.  Here is my model of his rookie 1939 Ford sedan that I built several years ago and posted here at the time.  There is a photo of the original car somewhere in the vault

Mike Auer driving in 1987, pictured here at Port Royal Speedway. All my previous cars were various shades of blue. This was more or less a tribute to my childhood hero Hoop Schaible.

Mike Gieser 27 ran Grandview and Nazereth later Pa.tri track.

Oh yeah now Joseph Joiner 10 late model Kabota sponsor

Dale Earnhardt Wheaties car 1997 Winston

Home Depot car

Ken Davis #104 coupe. Maynard Troyers early #6 modifieds and the car he rolled at Daytona. Jerry Wildrick had a great looking orange #27. Johnny Botz #2 coupe. Orange cars are great!

Picture of the coupe leaning against the LF tire at the Reading Show this year. Also a lot of orange of on the car behind it. 

Lee Osborn 81 coach

Dutch Hoag 18 coupe

Jim S(sp) O7 modifie/ sportsman. And this char in the pic. 

Harold Dauncey probably had the most beautiful Modern Stocks ever!!

My first thought will always be my nearly lifelong favorite, Jack Johnson. The others mentioned were also good drivers & am blessed to know some of them.  Very fond memories!

Ron Goodrich  OCFS  orange modified no. 30

I remember that one of Gary Phillips 11X sportsman cars was orange (I think it was a Mustang actually numbered 11ex for that year).  

Parneli Jones Trans Am Mustang 15

I'm thinking that it was yellow, but not sure....

Yes, the 327 and 325 were yellow

JimMcannally Jr #45 

Bob drove an orange coupe #28 at Flemington.

Fran Gallery in the 104,Doug Padgett 39

Mike Jablonski ran the orange colored #33jr in both sportsman and sprint cars.

Jim Hurtubise's Dayglo Orange sprint and champ cars were a favorite of mine as well

Kevin Kohler 66 Sportsman at Flemington

John Christ SR  28 at Flemington

Didn`t Stewy drive a orange 10 for some taxi owner up north years ago ?

Ron Stashek 616

Howard Harvey owned a former Paul Blair sedan   repainted orange with a # 4 

on her --i remember TOMMIE ELLIOTT driving  that car   for a while--

blessings !!

bill--------

Tommy Hughes and Bob McCullough also drove the Harvey 4. Howard also had a Treadway Mustang at that time.

THANKS , Steve !! Howard  was a friend of mine-met him in the ,60's at Jack Ely's garage in 

manasquan -worked at  Basso Olds in  Pt Pleasant Beach near Ideal Kitchens ---Howard 

was good people --

forgot Tommie Hughes drove for Howard--thanks !!

blessings !!

bill

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A few more before we close out the category...

• Bob Turlip #8T Gremlin modified at Flemington
• Clarence Suydam #9 Orange with white roof sportsman (Falcon?)
• Del George #52 Pinto (all orange), and honorable mention to the orange and black tiger striped car also driven by Del George
• Jim Baker #56  (Never saw him race it, but remember it being orange from looking at pictures.)
• Pat "Cadillac" Connaway #1 Late Model at New Egypt in the 2000's
• Tide Nascar driven by Darrell Waltrip and Jimmy Horton (other colors on it too, but i always think of it as being orange
• AJ Foyt's 1967 wining Indy car

Thanks for all the participation, and it was good to see the many different drivers and cars that you guys came up with.

We'll feature a different color race car for next week's question and see what you come up with then.

About 1980 Will Cagle had an orange car.

I took some of the red cast out of the original image... and sure enough, the #24 looks orange!

Weren't all of the Altemose team cars orange?