One of NASCAR's greatest traditions occurs this weekend as the NASCAR Cup Series at Darlington, South Carolina for the Southern 500, a race that ran on Labor Day Weekend from 1950-2003, until a 12-year break before its return in 2016.
Since Darlington regained its Labor Day Weekend race, drivers have used throwback paint schemes on their cars as NASCAR and the owners of the Darlington track have declared the race weekend as "Throwback Weekend".
This year, that new tradition continues as most of the drivers will be driving throwback paint schemes from their own past or use a paint scheme that pay tributes a driver from the past.
Here now are the 2020 NASCAR throwback paint schemes for the Southern 500:
Aric Almirola
Almirola will pay tribute to NASCAR Hall of Famer Fireball Roberts, with this paint scheme that is similar to the one Roberts used during the 1957 season, which he won eight races and finished sixth in the final points standings.
Christopher Bell
Bell's throwback paint scheme will be more recent than others as he will be driving a paint scheme closely resembling the one he used for his 2017 Truck Series championship season.
Josh Bilicki
Bilicki will be using a paint scheme that honors his car owner Tommy Baldwin's father Tom Baldwin Sr., who was a driver on the NASCAR Modified Series Tour from 1985 to 2004, winning six races during his career.
Ryan Blaney
Blaney will pay tribute to recently retired driver Paul Menard with this paint scheme Menard used during the 2003 season which included a win at Talladega.
Alex Bowman
All of the Hendrick Motorsports will honor Jimmie Johnson, who is retiring from the Cup series, with different paint schemes from Johnson's past. First up is Bowman, whose paint scheme will be similar to the one used during Johnson's first Cup championship season back in 2006.
Clint Bowyer
NBC broadcaster Kyle Petty will most likely be pulling Bowyer to win as Clint will be using the same paint scheme Kyle used for the 1990 Winston Cup season, which included a win at Rockingham for a then record payday of $284, 450.
William Byron
Another one of the Hendrick Motorsports paint schemes honoring Jimmie Johnson, Byron's paint scheme will be one that Johnson drove to a victory in the 2013 All-Star Race.
Kyle Busch
Busch will be throwing it back to 2004 with this paint scheme that Elliott Sadler used as he drove to two wins and a spot in the inaugural Chase for the Cup.
Ross Chastain
Chastain will honor "The Intimidator" Dale Earnhardt with this paint scheme that Earnhardt used for a 1976 race at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
Cole Custer
Custer will be driving a paint scheme that NASCAR Hall-of-Famer Curtis Turner used in six races during the 1966 season.
James Davison
Davison won't be throwing back it to a NASCAR driver, but instead to former Indianapolis 500 winner Tom Sneva who used this paint scheme for the 1983 Daytona 500 and another race at Michigan later that year.
Matt DiBenedetto
DiBenedetto's paint scheme will honor his car owners, the Wood Brothers, as it is closely resembles the one that from their 1963 Daytona 500 victory with Tiny Lind behind the wheel.
Austin Dillon
Dillon will honor Hall-of-Famer Junior Johnson, who died last year at the age of 88, with this paint scheme from Johnson's 1963 season.
Ty Dillon
Austin's younger brother, Ty, will honor his team, Germain Racing, with a paint scheme that celebrates the 10th anniversary of Todd Bodine's Truck Series championship season in which he drove for Germain Racing.
Chase Elliott
The third and final Hendrick Motorsports paint scheme honoring Jimmie Johnson will come courtesy of Elliott, who be the same paint scheme Johnson had for his 2009 championship season.
Joey Gase
Like Tony Stewart did in 2016, Gase will be using the famous Coca-Cola paint scheme that Bobby Allison used from the 1971-73 seasons to which he drove to 23 victories.
Kevin Harvick
Harvick's paint scheme will be honoring his sponsor, Busch Beer, with this paint scheme that celebrates the beer can design from the mid 1990s.
Denny Hamlin
Just like Harvick, Hamlin will be paying tribute to his sponsor FedEx, with a paint scheme reminiscent of how the sponsor's logo looked when it began operations in 1973.
Timmy Hill
Hill will be driving a "Skoal Bandit" paint scheme, but not the one made famous by Harry Gant, but the one used by Phil Parsons during the 1984 Winston Cup season.
Quin Houff
Houff will be throwing it back to before the official formation of NASCAR with this paint scheme that pays tribute to Milt Merion, the driver who won the first race on the Daytona Beach road course in 1936.
Jimmie Johnson
In what his going to be his final Southern 500, seven time series champion Jimmie Johnson will honor fellow seven-time champions Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt with this paint scheme that combines Petty's famous STP scheme from the 1970s and Earnhardt's Goodwrench black paint scheme from the 1990s.
Erik Jones
The defending winner of the Southern 500 will be using a paint scheme similar to the one Tony Stewart for the 2005 playoff race in Martinsville, which Stewart finished in 2nd place to race winner Jeff Gordon.
Brad Keselowski
Keselowski will honor his 2010 Xfinity series championship season with this paint scheme.
Joey Logano
Logano's paint scheme will be almost identical to the one used by Bobby Allison from the 1985 Winston Cup season.
John Hunter Nemechek
Nemechek will throw back it to 1999 with this paint scheme that is nearly identical to the one Elliott Sadler used for his rookie season.
Ryan Newman
Newman will celebrate his go-kart days as his paint scheme will very closely resemble the one for his 1999 USAC National Championship season.
Brennan Poole
Poole will honor Ricky Rudd with this paint scheme that "Rooster" used during the 1985 + 86 Winston Cup seasons to which he drove to three wins and two top-six finishes in the final points standings.
Tyler Reddick
This is will be NBC broadcaster Jeff Burton's favorite paint scheme as it very similar to the one Burton used for the 1995 Winston Cup season.
Daniel Suarez
Like Keselowski, Suarez will be using a paint scheme from a Xfinity championship season as he will be driving a car with the paint scheme from his 2016 Xfinity championship season.
Martin Truex Jr.
Truex will be driving a paint scheme that's almost identical to the one Hank Parker Jr. used for a Xfinity series race in 2003.
Bubba Wallace
Wallace's paint scheme will throwback it to 1986 when his car owner, Richard Petty, had to buy D.J. Ulrich's car after Petty could not afford a backup car after wrecking his during practice for the Coca-Cola 600. Petty would drive this car to a 38th place finish as he engine blew up after 123 laps.
J.J. Yeley
Yeley will be paying tribute to the late Kenny Irwin, with a paint scheme closely resembling the one Irwin used during the 1997 Winston Cup season.
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