From NASCAR Online: STP announced that a second “Paint the King’s Car” contest will be held for U.S. high school students in grades 9-12. Last year’s contest was open to anyone and generated more than 6,000 entries from all 50 states and nine foreign countries. The winning entry came from Lars Ericksson, a Swedish NASCAR fan, and his color scheme is being carried this season on the No. 43 STP Petty Enterprises Pontiac driven by Bobby Hamilton. Entry forms and contest information will be available next month and will be sent to instructors of more than 24,000 high school art classes. The contest will run until October 31 and, as with last year’s contest, the winning entry will be the paint scheme on the No. 43 car for all of next season(7-31-97)
