Side Quest Unlocked: Create Historic Schemes for 3 Active Drivers#48 | Cody Llamas
Team: Hendrick Motorsports
Rookie Season: 2002 (Debuted in 2001)
Starts: 713
Career Wins: 73 | 2006 Daytona 500 Champion, 4x Cup Series Champion ('06, '13, '17, '22)
Top Fives: 95
Top Tens: 164
So, with March 1st being the 10th anniversary of me starting the creation of a carset that would evolve over time into what is now the NSCA Cup Series, I felt it appropriate to create a few schemes for the drivers that have been in every season thus far since that initial carset that tell their history in the series......
..... Unfortunately, there are only 3 qualifying drivers for this..... Myself, Cody Llamas, and Hunter Keero. Worse still, the original idea was to have the three drivers use the same schemes that they did 10 years ago, albeit revamping those schemes to look 1000x better than they did when I first made them. Not only did looking at these older schemes dissuaded me from recreating them, they almost made me decide to scrap the idea before I delved further into it. That's how bad some of my more older schemes are.... However, the more I thought about it, I realized I could still do older schemes for these drivers, and if anything I could just do different, better schemes that I had already previously made, or just come up with possible scheme ideas that were realistically possible to have been run by these drivers in the past. And of course, that's the route I decided to go down.
We briefly return to Cody Llamas - since I already posted his 2023 cars earlier - as he is the first of the "Decade Trio" to have these schemes made. And since Cody is basically the Jimmie Johnson of the NSCA universe, I figured it would fit that he would've run similar (if not outright the same schemes) that Jimmie did during his career in the #48 in real life. Now each of the "Decade Trio" drivers will only have 2 schemes each made as additional files for the carset, so I did have to narrow down which of the schemes I wanted to make. I figured I would make 2 of my favorite Lowe's schemes that were ran. The 2002-2005 scheme (branded as it's 2005 iteration) and the 2006-2008 scheme (which I have branded as from 2009 because I forgot the real life 2009 scheme existed. Whoops.).