As Earnhardt's long-time employer Richard Childress tells it, General Motors wanted the Man in Black to race in blue.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. has expressed his wish to time ... At the top of the right front fender, it say's 'Kannapolis NC' where 'Goodyear' decal usually is. The left front fender doesn't have that ...

The left front fender doesn't have that, it's has a traditional Goodyear decal. Odd. Why?" After this, Dale Earnhardt Jr. added that Tommy Houston was driving behind Dale Sr. Tommy Houston was ...

decals would contrast better with the black asphalt of a race track. GM went with the black paint scheme, and the rest is history. Dale Earnhardt ran the same basic design for the rest of his ...