Road Race / Stock Car

Rectangular painted backglass with slightly rounded corners, in a bright mid-century illustrative style. Background is hilly green countryside under a pale blue sky with soft cloud: a grey road climbs and curves left over a stone bridge beside a white waterfall, past a distant town of red-roofed houses, cypress-like trees, and a small white roadside post marked 5. Upper left is a cream rectangular score window showing four black mechanical reel digits reading 1 5 5 0. Across the very top runs a dark blue banner of tiny white lettering: ADDED BY DISTRIBUTORS & BY APPOINTED ... CHICAGO, ILL. 60650, interrupted at centre by a yellow hexagonal badge. Below it, small white italic script reads Featuring, above the huge two-line title ROAD RACE in fat yellow-orange block capitals with black shadowing. Foreground: a yellow open-top roadster with whitewall tyres and a red-clad driver. A woman in a blue sleeveless top and blue jeans stands beside the car with both arms thrust straight up cheering; a man in a red-orange shirt and blue trousers leans forward over the car body. A crowd of grey-green simplified figures lines the right edge. Black-and-white chequered flag pattern fills the lower left corner.

Landscape backglass in a flat, brightly coloured mid-century cartoon style, dominated by sky blue sky, bright green hills and trees, red-roofed white and pastel houses, and yellow racing cars. Upper left holds a white rounded-rectangle score window with five roller-digit positions, framed in black. Across the top runs a white banner reading MFD. BY D. GOTTLIEB & CO. CHICAGO, ILL. 60651, with a green rounded Flipper Skill Game emblem set into it. Upper right is the title: Gottlieb's in small yellow script above StockCar in very large curving yellow letters with heavy black outline and shadow. The centre and lower left show a hillside road race: yellow open sports cars with red numbers, a red car, a blue-helmeted driver in a checked scarf, a waterfall and white rail bridge behind, cypress-like trees, and a cluster of blue-toned spectators on the right raising arms and hats. A woman in a red cap and sleeveless top leans forward over the bonnet in the lower right, one arm flung up, with a blonde child figure beside her. Along the bottom runs an arc of chrome-rimmed numbered circles 1 to 10 in red and yellow, a blue-and-black chequered flag, and BALLS TO PLAY in white at bottom right. A small white panel on a red-tiled roof reads PREVIOUS HIGH SCORE.