If I'm not wrong, it's confirmed in one of the older graphic novels that he took up "Internal Combustion" after his wreck, eventually earning his Doctorate.

Also, I'm 60%(?) sure you can also see his doctorate framed on his office wall when McQueen bursts in on Doc and Sheriff. I could totally be misremembering that detail, though.

according to extended media, he took up a medical career post-crash. It's illegal to impersonate a doctor so even though we don't physically see his doctorate degree we can assume because he advertises himself as a doctor on the front of his clinic in Cars 1, he had to have graduated with a doctorate degree in car medicine.

According to the wiki he has a doctorate in internal combustion so yes and has doctor of internal combustion on his sign

I’m pretty sure he does. In the movie doesn’t he own his own check up place and we see him with Sheriff in there.

The 3 older racers in town are also based on NASCAR veterans:

• Junior Moon / Junior Johnson - legendary driver, crew chief and owner
• River Scott / Wendell Scott - first African-American to win a NASCAR race
• Louise Nash / Louise Smith - second woman to race in NASCAR, 38 wins over 11 years

This was also alluded to by the signage on the racetrack advertising the "best darn garage in town", smokey Yunicks garage was "the best damn garage in town"

Smokey Yunick was also one of the biggest "cheaters" in nascar history, basically if it wasnt in the rulebook, hed do it.

Hmm

My favorite Smokey Yunick story is the time his car failed at inspection and he drove it back to the shop, without a gas tank. They had dropped it during the inspection, but he had installed a 2 inch diameter, 10 foot long fuel hose with that held an extra gallon of fuel.

I wonder why McQueen is in his Cars 2 style even tho he didn't get it until 2011 when the second movie happened.

"He had a lot of stuff" Is such a funny thing to put on a headstone without context.

I got a headcanon that this flashback scene was after the World Grand Prix since he still has his Cars 2 paint job. If it was more earlier, he’d had his radiator springs paint job

“Erm did you know they animated a deleted scene” No they didn’t

who's cutting onions?

The Doc Hudson corpse in Radiator Springs 500 1/2 was kinda disrespectful

In an another youtube video from Ned Wheeler, it was going to be in Cars 2, and there was a deleted concept art from Pixar cast, where Doc's grave was placed. But after a thought, the producers thought that as "depressing", but I also think it'd be disrespectful.

But in Cars 3, well that'd be horrible.

Yeah, this is real. There's a real concept art of Lightning McQueen, in his Cars 2 design, visiting Doc Hudson's grave.

Link: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60241cb68df65b530cd84d95/1719260374429-ROBKSGBCJJT8YRNH73PA/3.jpg

Sounds like bs, cause I’m pretty sure that they wouldn’t bring back doc except in flashbacks, but only use preexisting voice lines

And also horrible cuz man this would be very bad for children who watch that movie.

Actually yes, it comes from a Jay Ward interview. https://comicbook.com/popculturenow/news/cars-3-the-role-of-paul-newmans-doc-hudson-explained/

Oh thats so awesome, I wonder if I can find a die cast of this.

I don't think chick "nearly killed" the king, cnsidering he was doing Post-Race interviews both 10 minutes after the wreck

Besides, weve seen cars survive much worse managlings in this franchise, some caused by chick himself.

Personally, I think the fact that the crash DIDN'T kill The King is the only reason Chick wasn't punished more severely. Well, that and it's a kids movie. But also- I doubt there was enough evidence to point to that. With the way Chick always caused his wrecks, it was always subtle enough that it could've just been an innocent "rubbin's Racin' sort of situation.

It's either plot armor or there's just not enough evidence that he intentionally sabotaged King. I think it's the first one though

Strip Weathers didn't press charges

Maybe officials were bribed to not punish Chick.

Cars don't even have ears.

I'm gonna check on this one soon (maybe tomorrow: I just need to find back our dvd)

edit: in fact I watched it in french sorry (and I remember translating to myself the french phrase to "music to my ears"... :)

I was a huge fan of cars back when it first came out, I remember “music, sweet music.”

Now I want to watch Cars again

I wonder if cars, in the cars universe, could have an engine transplant ��

So much work went into a movie with very little plot.

You got a lot of heart kid! That looks great.

How’d you make it?

Wow 🤩

Cool

Amazing