[Editor’s Note: Membership card designer Scott M.X. Turner is back with this latest installment of Remembership, his retrospective series about the Uni Watch membership card program. Enjoy. — PL]
By Scott M.X. Turner
This week’s Remembership looks at the fastest membership requests on the planet: motorsports and horse racing.
Creating auto-racing cards involves a lot of source-material photos. Happily for this designer, the motorsports world, particularly NASCAR, is not bashful about promoting its liveries. I often used models of famous race cars and drivers’ numbers printed on various items of merchandise and collectibles. I still cross-referenced those graphics with historical photos to make sure the members’ cards were accurate. As with our football-helmet treatments, we sometimes included additional contours and textures based on members’ requests and/or source materials.
Five members have had equine requests, two of them based on the great Secretariat and his jockey, Ron Turcotte.
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That’s it for this week. But here are two omissions from previous weeks:
- Julien A. Marques’s card, featuring Indy driver Fernando Alonzo’s helmet, was inadvertently left out of our headwear-themed post a few weeks ago.
- And Bobby Murphy’s Notre Dame marching band tartan drape should have been included in last week’s post about cards based on marching bands.
Next week: Oddities!
Small edit: The #48 car’s driver is Jimmie, not Jimmy Johnson. Classic mix up between the Cowboys coach and him
Fixed.
These two membership cards were not pictured but were in the 1st groups descriptions. They would have been on the bottom
Herbie the Love Bug (Frank Serpas III), Ryan Newman NASCAR (Blake Pass), Martini Racing Team LeMans champion (Alex Sinclair)
Apologies. I’ll include those two cards in the next post.
Spell check:
Five members have had equine requests, two of them based on the “greaet” Secretariat and his jockey, Ron Turcotte.
Fixed.
I remember sponsoring a couple of raffles for NASCAR-themed membership cards…can’t recall when exactly or what was selected by the winners. Great work, Scott – especially on the DW number!
I pondered over a Speed Racer or Racer X membership card but then went with my HS mesh jersey
The “unidentified racecar” is based on one of the Le Mans Ford GT40s, no?
Fernando AlonSo is an F1 driver, although he has raced in 2 Indycar races (the Indy 500 twice).
Still OK for me, as that was the helmet he wore at Indy (it differs a lot from his F1 helmets, not least because his F1 number is 14.)
Very cool, all of these cards.