I grew up building models (still do) and some of my favorites were from Revell called Deal's Wheels which were really wild race cars based on some dude named Dave Deal who in the 60s and 70s did some very far-out drawings of cars. Google Deal's Wheels for some images.

Anyway, today I'm a HUGE NASCAR fan and have followed the CAT 22 team for 10 years now (have personally met 3 of the 4 drivers... cool) and decided to do this drawing based on Dave Deal's style but adding my own flair to it.

I'm not an illustrator, and I think it shows, but if you look at it as a cartoon (which is what I do) then it's not half bad.

This is also a throw back when NASCAR actually raced STOCK cars and not these things today. I love the sport, but man, those days of driving 69 Chargers with 440 engines were just too cool.

**Update: I replaced the logo on the hood as mine sucked. Forgot I do work for CAT so I had their freakin' logo on my machine! So, the logo has been replaced by the real CAT logo, not my crappy hand-drawn one.