Happy Hour: Picking your best throwback schemes for Darlington

It’s time for Happy Hour. As always, tweet us your thoughts or shoot us an email at happyhourmailbag@yahoo.com if you want to participate.

Just a bit delayed this week, but with a good reason. Hurricane Hermine washed out all practice on Friday, so instead of talking about what’s happening on the track, we simply have Happy Hour on the Friday before a three-day weekend.

It’s impossible to avoid, so you likely know that Darlington is NASCAR’s throwback weekend once again. It’s going to take a bit of adjustment to figure out everyone’s paint schemes for the weekend as most of the field is running a tribute to a team from back in the day.

Which leads us to ask … which one of the tribute paint schemes is your favorite? (For a complete list of paint schemes you can click this gallery from NASCAR.com)

We got multiple votes for Casey Mears’ car, and damn, it looks sharp.

Here’s what Kenseth’s car looks like. With Dollar General leaving the sport at the end of the season, the Tide paint scheme has made some people wonder if the detergent company could be coming back to NASCAR.

The Greg Biffle Hooters car looks great too. But it was unveiled after Tommy Baldwin Racing released its Alan Kulwicki throwback scheme. Granted, Regan Smith’s car isn’t sponsored by Hooters like Biffle’s is, but two teams honoring the same paint scheme for a throwback race seems like an easily avoidable situation.

We’re drawn to Carl Edwards’ No. 19 car for childhood reasons. 2016 is proof everyone grows up.

If NASCAR raced a weekend with old rules, we’d love to see single-file restarts come back with the leader’s choice of lane. But only at specific tracks like Martinsville and Bristol. Basically any track where the main groove is far preferred to the top groove. In no world should a driver in the fourth row have an advantage over a driver in the second row because he’s in a better lane.