#tex dinoco

[feketeribizli]

team (yeehaw) dinoco

[chokedonaturtle]

some crayon art for you on this fine night

if you’re struggling w color theory, i urge you to go back to the basics. crayons !! helps me focus on layering and colors rather than detail

[masterj]

Friendly reminder that Lightning McQueen did NOT retire from racing in Cars 3. He only took time off to be Cruz's crew chief until her rookie season was over.

He clearly said after the final race was over, that he wanted to keep racing, since he has a choice now that Sterling is out of the picture thanks to Tex buying Rust-eze.

And when he and Mater meet up with Cruz in Cars on the Road, he says to her that they're both racers now.

Because like McQueen said, HE decides when he's done.

[larytello]

The highlight of my year was to find out McQueen's little #1 fan has a name and a mom who also has a name and is pretty much alive. I love that kid, she's unconditionally supportive and you have no idea how important of a role it played in my heart

Also we all know Blade would fight a Karen and it would be the kind of spectacle to watch while eating popcorn

[haunted-planes]

Cars 3 ending broadcasted on the news. I like to think how my ocs are not involved in any Cars Movie events, they just get what’s on the sport channel and newspaper.

[praxcrown5]

Halloween 2024: Dinocuties

I couldn't think of anything else to do for Carstober, so I decided to do something fun with Sheriff and Doc.

I headcanon that this actually happened during a Dinoco-Rusteeze sponsored charity event somewhere. Doc came up with the idea, Sheriff offered to help, and everyone else in town was in on it...except for Lightning. Doc loved practical jokes: the more elaborate the better. And to really make their performance authentic, he reached out to Tex and asked if he and Sheriff could practice with the Dinoco Girls to learn their routines. Tex loved the idea.

So, jump ahead three months to the event. The entire time lightning is handing out awards, asking for donations, and doing photo ops, Sheriff and Doc were blowing kisses and shaking their rear ends behind him with the girls. When it was Doc's turn to hand out an award, he just rolled up to the microphone as he was, glitter and all. The look on Lightning's face was worth it, a million times over. Sally has this picture and the picture of Lightning's reaction framed on her desk at the Cozy Cone.

I...um...also headcanon that Doc and Sheriff hooked up later that night while still wearing the costumes. Mmmyep.

Also, random art note. The tiaras look like they were just clipped from a photo...but they weren't. I hand detailed all the glittery bits and whatnot. I think I'm finally starting to get the hang of digital art, though I still prefer traditional.

[violentlycookingcartoons]

tex…… tex dinoco my love. my cowboy love. yeehaw amiright. yall.

Here the Texas man you've ordered! :3

[bisexualmcqueen]

humanized sketch dump

[justlemoney]

Part 1

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Cars Meme Masterlist

[longjiaojiao]

can't stop drawing them maybe because their car models are so unique and fun to draw🥹

[chokedonaturtle]

team dinoco

or something

[kachowthunder]

[bootleg-cal-weathers]

i like how most of the cars fandom agrees tex can’t cook for shit 😭

he’s banned from the weathers kitchen entirely

he probably almost burned down his college dorms

also i really like how in most fics i read tex just kinda lives with the weathers 😭

he’s just there sitting on their couch like he owns it (he might tbh)

i love tex<3

he’s so silly

[champmorado]

QUEERS FOR DINOCO WOOOO

i didnt expect to become such a huge fan of the weathers family + dinoco team but here we are hee hee

and heres one for straight ally strip 😭😭

[roe-and-memory]

at some point, when he runs out of projects to work on and things to fix, lightning mcqueen takes on the brilliant idea of getting a late model car. what better is there to do in the middle of the week than get out racing — again.

he runs races in kingman at the local track, towing his car on a trailer behind his good ol’ 75’ chevy k10.

its familiar for him. he used to race these cars, he used to race against young drivers and old drivers alike — sometimes, he even got a chance to race against real cup drivers. those were the coolest days of his life at the time.

he recalls the victories and the championships he won in his years as a super late model racer, the only childhood pictures he has being the ones from when he was 15-17 that hang on the wall of macks truck with such intense pride. the idea brings him nostalgia, and the very real realization that he can afford to build a new one — his old one sitting comfortably in the rusteze racing museum — and, since hes done working on his truck, he has all the time in the off season to waste.

his first order of business is a chat with rusty and dusty to work out a sponsor deal.

rusty and dusty are excited at the idea, but being a primary sponsor IS expensive.. so, they tell him that they’d be willing to partner with tex to work out some sort of team and dual primary situation. they KNOW tex has always wanted to sponsor lightning, so why cant he do it now on his lower league car?

tex is delighted by this idea. he gives lightning funds to build the car, as well as works with rusteze to make a middle ground, hot paint scheme that’ll ignite the track and catch everyones eye.

once he has all the materials, his second order of business is putting everything together.

having been his own mechanic for quite a while before his radiator springs racing team came in, he knows the inside and outside of his car like the back of his hand. with minimal instructions, hes got the chassis and frame together in less than a week.

he never told doc about any of this — so imagine the mans surprise when he steps into his garage one morning, lightning is still asleep inside, and he finds the skeleton of a brand new racecar propped up on a bunch of cinder blocks.

he interrogates lightning, finally getting a confession of ‘oh, right…. uhhh wanna be my crew chief in a second series now?’, and he agrees. he helps lightning build the car too, happy father-son bonding time as they discuss what this kind of racing would look like as doc isnt too familiar. when theyre done, ramone paints her, and she’s ready to be entered in a race.

tex essentially covered the entire cost of the car itself, all lightning has to do is pay the small fee of entering it into the local track and everything is settled..

these races turn into a sort of therapy for him. he can race without all the big crowds, and he can have more personal connections with fans this way. it brings the track in kingman more publicity.

lightning is LOVED by the owners of the track. he decides it’d be in his best interest to do autograph signings and fan days there, bringing the track more publicity and more funding — cause all money from these events goes right to them.

aside from that, lightning also cant find it fair for him, a cup driver, to be racing against younger people and teams that arent as wealthy.. each win he gets there results in donation of the money.

sometimes he gives the money to second or third place finishers/their team, depending on who wants it. other times, he donates the winnings to the 50/50 raffle right before its called and he ups the pool — hell, sometimes he’ll just straight up donate the money to a local charity or school. on some random and perhaps slightly rare occasions he gives the money back to the track. its nothing against them, obviously, but he donates a ton already and he thinks other people should get chances — and they completely understand.

the only thing he would ever keep from these wins are his trophies, and even if he doesnt run ever race or he doesnt win every race, being able to get trophies reminiscent of those from his beginnings in the sport brings a smile to his face.

but… imagine one race he just gets Walled. it’s bad. his car is fucked and suddenly the world is spinning — as his car rolls down onto the apron of the track and the caution lights come on, he makes a poor attempt at crawling out of the car. its ends up with him half-sprawled across the pavement trying to remove his helmet and firesuit, racecars going by at a still high speed just meters away from his head.

it sucks, its stupid — the impact broke a bone in his knee and hip that he’d already experiences issues with from a past crash from a similar situation.. he doesnt wanna admit hes hurt, so, he avoids as much contact with medical services and doc, and just insists he’ll walk off the godawful limp hes fighting with — the one sending shudders and tremors through his whole body with each new step he takes — and he wants to fix his car.

this secrecy cant last long, obviously.. i cant imagine what a piston cup race would do to him that same weekend.

[youhavehitawall]

the Dinoco team is professional at all times