Thought this might be the place to ask.
After parting company with Penske in 1978, I know Tom drove for Jerry O'Connell in the Sugaripe Prune-sponsored car in '79. What were his teams and sponsors over the next two seasons, before the Texaco Star era?
Reason I ask is two-fold. One, I am trying to complete historical Indycar carsets for a racing sim, and two, in leafing through my Indy 500 yearbooks I found a series of B/W pics of Sneva's 1980 Phoenix Cosworth hitting the wall at IMS in practice, and it did NOT look like the yellow "Bon Jour Jeans" paintjob on the backup McLaren he used in the race that year. In fact, a description in that book said it was red and blue. Did Sneva have a regular sponsor/paint scheme in '80? Did it change throughout the year? How about 1981? I know that at both Indy and Michigan in '81 he drove the "Blue Poly" special....Pocono too, I think.
Would love to get some pics of Sneva's cars in the 1980-81 time frame, if anyone knows of a good source.
Brent
After parting company with Penske in 1978, I know Tom drove for Jerry O'Connell in the Sugaripe Prune-sponsored car in '79. What were his teams and sponsors over the next two seasons, before the Texaco Star era?
Reason I ask is two-fold. One, I am trying to complete historical Indycar carsets for a racing sim, and two, in leafing through my Indy 500 yearbooks I found a series of B/W pics of Sneva's 1980 Phoenix Cosworth hitting the wall at IMS in practice, and it did NOT look like the yellow "Bon Jour Jeans" paintjob on the backup McLaren he used in the race that year. In fact, a description in that book said it was red and blue. Did Sneva have a regular sponsor/paint scheme in '80? Did it change throughout the year? How about 1981? I know that at both Indy and Michigan in '81 he drove the "Blue Poly" special....Pocono too, I think.
Would love to get some pics of Sneva's cars in the 1980-81 time frame, if anyone knows of a good source.
Brent
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