Dick Johnson Racing and Nissan Motorsport will this year continue the popular trend of running retro liveries in the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000.
DJR, the championship’s oldest team, will mark the 20th anniversary of its most recent Bathurst triumph by campaigning its #17 David Wall/Steven Johnson entry in yellow and blue Shell/FAI colours.
The move marks the third consecutive retro Bathurst livery for DJR, having celebrated Johnson’s famed Tru-Blu XD and Greens’-Tuf XE Falcons in 2012 and 2013.
Nissan is using the second appearance of its V8 Supercars program at Bathurst to hark back to its 1984 Bluebird, which scored pole for The Great Race thanks to the efforts of George Fury.
While the retro schemes come at a compromise for team sponsors, the combination of increased media exposure and revenue earned through associated merchandising ensures that they’ll likely be a fixture of the Bathurst weekend for years to come.
This week’s Pirtek Poll asks: Which retro Bathurst livery has been your favourite?
Scroll through the contenders before casting your vote at the bottom of the page.
2007 Ford Performance Racing – Cobra (1978)
2010 Holden Racing Team – Percy/Grice (1990)
2012 TeamVodafone – Marlboro HDT (1982)
2012 The Bottle-O Racing – Firth/Gibson (1967)
2012 Ford Performance Racing – Moffat Ford Dealers (1977)
2012 Dick Johnson Racing – Tru-Blu (1980/81)
2013 Dick Johnson Racing – Greens’-Tuf (1983)
2014 Dick Johnson Racing – Shell FAI (1994)
2014 Nissan Motorsport – Fury/Scott Bluebird (1984)
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