The paintwork is the stand-out performer in this particular game, and like most great ideas it was built on someone else’s idea. We need to head to the Indy 500 race series in the USA to find the influence. In the mid ‘70s manufacturers supplying the pace car for the race hit on the idea of promoting the work horse trucks that they also provided. Rather than remaining nondescript they began to create special editions using graphics, trim and wheels to make them stand out from their stock brethren with a view to offering the packages to the buying public. In 1975 GMC, the leading supplier to Indy 500 over the years, applied their white truck with what they described as ‘red, white and blue accents.’ Forty-four years later one…
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