The King is a 1970 Plymouth Superbird with a 426 Hemi V8 engine, the car Richard Petty drove. The Plymouth Superbird was a heavily modified version of the Plymouth Road Runner, specifically designed for stock car racing.
During the final race of the season, Lightning blows his rear tires and finishes in a three-way tie with the soon-to-retire Strip Weathers (The King) and perennial runner-up Chick Hicks. On the road to Los Angeles for a tie-breaker race, Lightning begins to realize he has no true friends.
Paul Dooley found his place in the Cars universe as Sarge, the army-green military vet. The Sixteen Candles actor's other voice roles include episodes of Sesame Street and Batman: The Animated Series, Recess Christmas: Miracle on Third Street (2001), and Turbo (2013).
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.
The Sally Special. A one-of-a-kind Porsche 911 designed in collaboration with Pixar as a tribute to none other than the iconic Sally Carrera of the studio's “Cars” franchise. That's right. A car.
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.
Mater's design is based on a 1955-57 Chevrolet Task Force Tow truck once used to lift equipment from mine shafts in Cherokee County, Kansas. A Cars "Rev'd Up" DVD released as a 2006 bonus in Target stores describes Mater as inspired by a 1957 Dodge truck.
McQueen, who was 15 years younger than his beloved sister, was just nine or ten when he watched Hulyer - who is now dead - repeatedly beat her. Janet suffered two miscarriages as a result of the violence.
Unlike most Pixar films, the Cars franchise borrowed heavily from NASCAR and racing culture and developed a strong connection with the sport. By the first film's release, racers like Richard Petty and Darrell Waltrip had characters based on and voiced by them in the movie.
Who is he: Strip Weathers, aka The King, is a 1970 Superbird who has, you guessed it, won more series races than any other car in history. His paint scheme is the Dinoco Blue (which looks amazingly like Petty Blue) and he wears No. 43.
Michael Caine as Finn McMissile, a British spy car who, alongside Holley, helps Mater to foil the criminals. Emily Mortimer as Holley Shiftwell, a young British desk agent, new to field work who is Finn's assistant.
The King's voice actor, Richard Petty, reprises his role in Cars 3. He served as the crew chief for his nephew Cal Weathers and he compliments one of Cal's attempted insults early in the film. In the end, he is seen with Tex Dinoco and Cal Weathers to give Cruz Ramirez to become Dinoco's next racer.
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. In the movie he's called a 2017 Custom-built “Next-Gen” Piston Cup Racer. In real life he most resembles the 2002 Cadillac Cien supercar concept.
We previously thought that character was a pure electric vehicle, but a second video reveals that Storm is actually a hybrid described as being "part of the next generation of high-tech racers."
As McQueen nears the finish line, Chick, refusing to finish the race behind The King again (who is trying to stay in second place to prevent Chick hurting McQueen), PITs his rival (sideswipes in the bumper), sending The King into a violent crash.
As Mater introduces everyone to the agents, Holley mentions that she is Mater's girlfriend, which also surprises Guido, as he and Luigi had not believed Mater claiming so back in Japan. Flo notices that Holley has a dent on her side, which was caused when Grem and Acer drove into her back in London.
Sally is also shown to have a celebrity crush on Francesco, making McQueen jealous at times and at the end, Sally and Lightning are shown to be very happy still and he even says he loves her after she claims that Francesco isn't even that attractive.
Sally has a pinstripe style tattoo on her rear decklid spoiler. This was done to give the impression that she had a wild side at one time. The actual car had the pinstriping done by hand.
Bobby Swift's competition number, 19, might be a reference to the 1995 Pixar film Toy Story as, together with Lightning McQueen's number, 95, to whom he stayed close during the races, it formed number 1995, the year of movie's release.
Ed Truncan is a next-generation Piston Cup racer who is sponsored by Mood Springs, superseding the previous racer Dud Throttleman. His racing number is 33.
