I have always liked Richard Petty. A man from a time when auto racing was racing.
(Pretty much everything I owned from my youth was covered in STP stickers.)
I remember way back in the 1978 Jesse Helms campaign in North Carolina, we had pro-Helms TV spots done by Richard Petty. You can bet that went a long way in that state. And of course Mr. Conservative — Senator NO! — Jesse Helms won reelection to the Senate.