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From the beginning of organised motor sport events, in the early 1900s, until the late 1960s, before commercial sponsorship liveries came into common use, vehicles competing in Formula One, sports car racing, touring car racing and other international auto racing competitions customarily painted their cars in standardised racing colours that indicated the nation of origin of the car or driver.
Detail of a KarTrak code. This barcode is Start 8350199918 Stop 5. KarTrak, sometimes KarTrak ACI (Automatic Car Identification) or just ACI was a colored barcode system designed to automatically identify railcars and other rolling stock.
Personalised slogans, words, names and pictures of pin up girls and Disney characters were discouraged but evident on many vehicles in wartime photos. February 1945 regulations stated that "caricatures, cartoons, coats of arms and symbolic figures are not authorised." [1]: 62
A California car license plate saying ANRCHST (a vanity plate–speak form of anarchist) from 2006. The use of year-of-manufacture (YOM) plates is authorized by Section 5004.1 of the California Motor Vehicle Code. It is a law that allows vintage cars to be registered to use vintage license plates.
11. Purple. Depreciation: 7.3% less than average After coming in near the bottom of the rankings last year, purple and other jewel tones performed well this year, holding value better than average.
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In celebration of National Name Your Car Day, which falls on Oct. 2, Capital One released the results of a survey conducted with car owners -- and the findings are totally intriguing.
Rosso corsa (lit."racing red" in Italian) is the red international motor racing colour of cars entered by teams from Italy. [2]Since the 1920s Italian race cars of Alfa Romeo, Maserati, Lancia, and later Ferrari and Abarth have been painted in rosso corsa ("racing red").