#43 Strip Weathers, AKA "The King" (Richard Petty; modeled after one of the Petty's real 1970 Plymouth Superbirds), a longtime racing veteran who already has seven Piston Cups to his credit and is rumored to be retiring at the end of the current season.
Strip "The King" Weathers is a race car that appears in the 2006 Disney/Pixar animated film Cars and its 2017 triquel. He is a seven-time champion of the Piston Cup and a veteran racer.
Meanwhile, Clarkson voiced Harv, the agent who works with McQueen. His character is known for being strict, often scolding clients that weren't focused on racing. Clarkson's voice is only ever heard over a speaker when he excitedly speaks to McQueen ahead of a big race.
Paul Newman graced Cars with his Oscar-winning presence as Doc Hudson, an old-school car who serves as a judge and doctor. After decades spent appearing in classics like Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), The Hustler (1961), and Cool Hand Luke (1967), Newman's turn in the animated film was one of his last projects.
Sally Carrera is a 2002 Porsche 996 Carrera and a major character in the Disney/Pixar Cars film franchise. She is the town attorney for Radiator Springs, having relocated there from California where she was a successful lawyer. She is voiced by Bonnie Hunt.
Anticipation for Cars 4 is high, but Disney has not addressed any details for the movie. Producers have shown openness to expanding the franchise, with potential for a new lightning McQueen narrative. Story details remain a mystery, focusing on potential Cruz Ramirez involvement and moving away from McQueen.
Chick is a 1979 Shyster Cremlin, a fictional car based on and designed after a 1981 Buick Regal in NASCAR form. Chick is painted green, with the number 86 painted on his doors, and has yellow rims.
He's a little rusty, but it's clear he's modeled after both the 1951 International Harvester tow truck and the 1951 Chevrolet boom truck (which is the same car). That truck was and is still used as a towing vehicle since it first came out.
He was originally voiced by Joe Ranft in the first film. Angel Oquendo as Bobby Swift, a Piston Cup racer and one of Lightning's friends. Diedrich Bader as Brick Yardley, a Piston Cup racer and one of Lightning's friends.
The one-off 911 features Sally Carrera's tattoo from the Cars movie on its rear – a reminder, says Sally, of her high-octane life 'living' in California.
Doc Hudson (voiced by Paul Newman in the first and third films and the video game adaptation of the first film, Corey Burton in Cars Mater-National) was Radiator Spring's medical doctor, judge, and Lightning's mentor/crew chief. He is a 1951 Hudson Hornet.
Cars 3. Due to his death, Doc doesn't appear physically in this movie but a huge portion of it focuses on McQueen remembering him. He is also mentioned and alluded to several times as well as appearing in a few flashbacks that McQueen has of Doc training him, which helps him focus on race.
How Old is Lightning McQueen? In the original Cars movie, McQueen is in his early-to-mid twenties, and reaches the apex of his career in his late thirties in Cars 2 , before approaching obsolescence and retirement in his early forties through Cars 3 .
Chick is the most recurring villain in the Cars franchise as he appears in Cars, Cars 3, and almost every video game (excluding Cars: Mater-National Championship). In Cars 3, the Lightyear logo on his tires were replaced by yellow lettering reading his own name, Chick Hicks.
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.
Michael Schumacher (born January 3, 1969) is a German retired racing driver, known for winning seven Formula One titles. He is currently recovering from a skiing accident that he had in December 2013. He performed the voice of Ferrari F430, the car version of himself, in Cars.
