Often used baja paint colors meant something?

[Cubey]

I can't help but notice that the color scheme of a white car with red, blue, and yellow stripes seems to have been popular in the 70s (80s?). Did that meant something, or was it just a popular combination of colors at the time?

Some examples:

Reason I ask: tomorrow it's a 99% chance I'm buying one with a similar paint scheme. It might have been an actual racer, since it has a roll bar inside. That or the owner wanted to pretend.

[earthquake]

I think that design came from some record album from the 70's or 80's, and there may have been a class 5 car that won its class in the Baja 1000 painted with those colors. DustyMojave may know more.

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[y2kbaja]

The second one was from Nor Cal and all of his race cars, chase trucks, trailers were all painted that way. He was a big boat guy (still is) and even his boat had the scheme.

[AZ-BUG]

Off-road racing legend Walker Evans used that paint scheme since the 70’s. He was sponsored by Barbary Coast casino, who also sponsored other drivers (Rob McCachren in Class 1) in other classes, also using that paint scheme. The casino went out of business years ago, however Walker Evans continued using that paint scheme, which leads me to believe it may have been his. He did have different paint schemes through the years, but this one is the one most associated with him.

That’s my guess anyway

[dustymojave]

Such color schemes were quite popular on many sorts of vehicles in that era. Pro painters such as "Moly", who was used by Toyota, Datsun's BRE race team after previously used by BRE when they ran the Hino factory race team until Toyota bought Hino and stopped Hino's passenger car lines.

In the 1970s I nearly painted my Hi Jumper Unlimited Class buggy with a similar scheme on a yellow base color. Then decided that was way common and just left it plain yellow body work with Electric Blue frame. As you see in my avatar. Got a lot of compliments on the "clean" look of it. So I suppose others approved.

In the 80s, the self re-named Gay movement appropriated rainbow color schemes. So use of such paint jobs faded away amongst others.

That Baje Bug is NOT and NEVER WAS a RACE CAR. I see potential in it to become a fun car.

Funny that comment about the paint scheme reminding someone of Pink Floyd album art...As I was noticing the Pink Floyd graphics on my neighbor's pickup this afternoon.
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