The King's crash seems to be a re-creation of Petty's real-life Daytona 500 accident in 1988 with the exception that it was not caused by a collision with another driver as in the movie. The bit which Lightning assists him to the finish line seems to be based on the 1976 incident, albeit by the pit crew.
Strip "The King" Weathers (voiced by Richard Petty) is a veteran race car and racing legend. Weathers is an anthropomorphic version of Petty's 1970 Plymouth Superbird, sporting the same shade of blue and Petty's racing number, 43, as well as being a fictionalized version of him.
Chick is a 1979 Shyster Cremlin, a fictional car based on and designed after a 1986 Buick Regal in NASCAR form. Chick is painted green, with the number 86 painted on his doors, and has yellow rims.
His name is a possible reference to actor Carl Weathers. Cal's number, 42, could be a reference to 1942, the year Lynda Petty, Kyle Petty's mother and voice of Cal's aunt Lynda Weathers, was born.
Voiced by actor Armie Hammer, Jackson Storm is the quick, cocky, and friendless rival for McQueen. In the movie, he's younger, fitter, and faster than the lead. He's called a 2017 Custom-built “Next-Gen” Piston Cup Racer. In real life, he most resembles the 2002 Cadillac Cien supercar concept.
While many are curious about what type of car Lightning McQueen is, it should be noted that McQueen's personality is based on a composite of drivers and athletes, including Muhammad Ali, Joe Namath, and Micheal Jordan. One of the most human aspects of McQueen is the process of his aging.
Inspiration. Doc Hudson is based on the real-life Fabulous Hudson Hornet in NASCAR competition, with Hudson's racing career most closely resembling that of Herb Thomas, the record holder for the highest career win rate (55 of 228 races, or 21.05%), and the first-ever two-time champion.
The King's crash seems to be a recreation of Petty's real-life Daytona 500 accident in 1988 with the only exception that it was not caused by a collision with another driver as in the film. The bit which McQueen assists him to the finish line seems to be based on the 1976 incident, albeit by the pit crew.
Disney and Pixar's Cars may have hit theaters in the summer of 2006, but production of the film started many years earlier, with production designer Bob Pauley first sketching the film's female protagonist, Sally Carrera, in 2002. As her surname suggests, Sally is an anthropomorphic Porsche 911 Carrera.
Dinoco may have been based on the Sinclair Oil Corporation (incidentally, the namesake for the Sinclair family in the TV sitcom Dinosaurs), which also uses an Apatosaurus in its logo.
Originally, his number was going to be 57, which is the year John Lasseter was born (1957). Lightning's last name "McQueen" is a reference to Glenn McQueen, a supervising animator at Pixar who passed away in 2002.
For example, Strip “The King” Weathers has the same amount of Piston Cup wins as McQueen, and many celebrities, such as Stephen A. Smith, have proclaimed the blue race car as their GOAT racer in the beloved Pixar franchise.
After the Florida 500, it is unknown what happened to Jackson Storm as he was not seen after Cruz won or the end credits' pictures. It can be presumed that he still kept racing to try to beat Cruz but still lost to her in the end.
Lightning McQueen is a fictional anthropomorphic stock car and the main protagonist of the Disney/Pixar Cars franchise. McQueen's appearances include the feature films Cars, Cars 2, and Cars 3, as well as the animated series Cars Toons and Cars on the Road.
The Doc Hudson character is based on real-life NASCAR pioneer Herb Thomas, who drove Hudson Hornets to Grand National championships in 1951 and 1953. He was beaten out for the title in 1954 by Lee Petty, father of Richard Petty ("The King").
Ramone is a 1951 Impala low-rider who loves riding “low and slow.” He runs Ramone's House of Body Art, the local custom body and paint shop. A true artist, but without many customers to paint, Ramone changes his own paint job every day.
Tex is a 1975 Cadillac Coupe De Ville. His license plate reads Dinoco. The performance stats are: Top speed is 115 mph (185 km/h) with no governor/limiter.
As Doc passed away after the events of Cars: Race-O-Rama and before Cars 2, he does not make a physical appearance in the film, but a newspaper with a picture of him on it can be seen inside of the Hudson Hornet Racing Museum, the building which used to be Doc's Clinic.
Her license plate reads '"C01-06A". She takes some inspiration from the Jaguar F-Type SVR , Chevrolet Corvette C7, and the Ferrari F12 Berlinetta. While training with McQueen, Cruz has a yellow livery with the Rust-eze Racing Center emblem on her doors.
Story supervisor Nathan Stanton said: "we felt, after really tooling around with the idea of him being in the film and how do we properly use him, it just felt right that we should have his character have passed away also [as Paul Newman]." John Lasseter said that he realized "Doc Hudson was Paul Newman.
Dinoco is a fictional oil company that first appeared in Toy Story as a small gas station. It plays a central role as a key race car sponsor in Cars, and made a small cameo in WALL-E.
Tow Mater is a 1951 International Harvester L-170 and yes probably so it was a kind of tow truck but I wasn't born around that time. I was born later. HERE HE IS!!
