Drivers and Their Numbers

[racincowboy02]

How do drivers come up with their numbers. I know how Bloomquist came up with his but it would be pretty interesting to see how other drivers came up with their numbers. Have any of you heard stories about how they come up with them

[BerckFan]

I'm going to say many fall into these areas:
- Age they started racing
- Year they started racing
- "Family" number
- Finally, "number was on car when I bought it, so I kept it"

[waaac77]

I’ve always thought if someone’s numbers is 1 that they think they’re #1 and it helps them win because they always have that #1 mentality.

[AnonymousNate]

or old sports # baseball/basketball and such....

[Jim11h]

Lotta times it was their favorite drivers # when they was kid

[CIRF]

The driver of the late model we were involved with back in the day used the last two digits of the year he was born.

[dirt crow]

Good question for those drivers of number “69” cars. Lol

[One Man Gang]

Probably from taking a lot of licks and getting hit a lot

[JCSullivan00]

My dad raced for a long time and had a ton of different numbers:

7, that was my age
8, I got a year older, so the number grew by one. lol
22, his dads number
38, drove for someone else
1, it was the only number I could paint on it last minute
00, was a big Freddy fan
22 again, His dad wasn't doing well so he switched back
00 again, decided to retire and wanted to go back to his long time number

He retired and my little brother took over, and uses his football number 41.

Everyone always thought it was weird that he switched numbers so often, but he likes to tell the stories of how he ended up with each number, and there's a memory behind the changes.

[rdcllk]

I used the year I got married. The race car lasted longer then the marriage. Lol

[SLIDING SIDEWAYS]

I used the year I got married. The race car lasted longer then the marriage. Lol

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 good one but oh so true!

[Zonks32x]

Couple DLM examples...that hold true to what has been mentioned above.

Jason Feger... 25 was his Grandpa's #
Taylor Scheffler...10, was Grandpa George's #
Bobby Pierce....32 was Bob Sr's #

Would love to know the back stories behind Marlar and 157
JD and 49
Weaver 116, etc.

[Raceready]

Chub Frank started ran the number 04 in the beginning. He had to switch to the number 1 because his primary sponsors logo was {# 1 Tobber Chassis}. All well and fine until he raced in a big race where there were several number 1s. They had to add something for scorers so Chubs sign painter brushed a yellow star in the middle of the number is how the 1 star came to be. How about Al Richards in the 80s had the number of his car written on there { FOUR }. That was sort of different. Same as the occasional driver that had the number on the quarter panel instead of the door.

[t4g2]

Is like to hear the story on the # 58(c for cents) do remember drivers name it was a late model

[xray]

Is like to hear the story on the # 58(c for cents) do remember drivers name it was a late model

garrett durrett dont know the story though

[mccreadiefan39]

Tim McCreadie's 39 comes from Sweeteners Plus owner Carl Myers. He was a 8 time National and 3 time world champion offshore power boat racer and ran the number 39 during his hall of fame career.

[Dlmfan123]

Couple DLM examples...that hold true to what has been mentioned above.Jason Feger... 25 was his Grandpa's #Taylor Scheffler...10, was Grandpa George's #Bobby Pierce....32 was Bob Sr's #Would love to know the back stories behind Marlar and 157JD and 49Weaver 116, etc.

I’m curious about Marlar. I’m a huge fan of 3 digit numbers. How Davenport got his number is on one lap one beer with suave from east bay on dod

[zyoung25]

The marlars have all ran the 57 over the years. Mike's father started it all when he ran the original 57 back in the day. Mike and brother Skylar ran 157 and 257. Cam, which I believe is Mikes nephew used to run 357. He has been running 57 on his late model the last couple years.

There was a shirt with all 4 cars on it a few years back. Cam drove a mod at that time though.

[dirt crow]

I picked 8 when I raced. Simple reason was I wanted a number no one else had. From age 13-15 going to green valley and TST only seen one 8. So my first race when I was 16 we showed up with a four banger with number 8 on the side. And wouldn’t you know it. There was four 8’s in my race. Lol. Go figure.

[Dlmfan123]

The marlars have all ran the 57 over the years. Mike's father started it all when he ran the original 57 back in the day. Mike and brother Skylar ran 157 and 257. Cam, which I believe is Mikes nephew used to run 357. He has been running 57 on his late model the last couple years.There was a shirt with all 4 cars on it a few years back. Cam drove a mod at that time though.

I’m pretty sure Cameron is mikes younger brother. You could be right tho