The No. 21 Air Force car debuted in the 2007 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series, driven by Jon Wood.

You’re probably thinking, “fighter jets and a race car… it doesn’t get much cooler than that.” That’s what I thought, too. Like any red-blooded American, I played with Matchbox Cars when I was a kid. So when I found out that the NASCAR wrap I worked on was being made into a die-cast collectible, I was considerably more excited than I was about working on a real race car.