Car & Racing Coloring Pages
15 free printable pages, ready to download and print.
Free printable car and racing coloring pages featuring race cars, muscle cars, hot rods, convertibles, and drift scenes.
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Car bodies are curved, glossy and painted a single color, which means everything interesting on the page comes from reflections rather than from the paint. Get the highlight running along the shoulder line and the shadow underneath the sill, and even a flat red car looks like metal. These 15 car and racing coloring pages cover Formula 1, hot rods, classic convertibles, stock car ovals, an off-road mountain climb, a beach camper van and a monster truck. Every design downloads as a free printable PDF sized for US Letter paper.
Race Car Speeding on a Winding Race Track and Classic Convertible on a Coastal Highway are the two most-printed. Formula 1 Race Car in a Pit Stop has the most figures and detail. Hot Rod With Flames Racing on a Strip is the best excuse in the set for a full-saturation palette.
Race liveries are worth treating as design rather than decoration. A real racing car carries two or three colors in bold geometric blocks, repeated on the nose, sidepods and rear wing, with sponsor space left white. Following that logic, a few colors, repeated in the same places, makes an invented livery look professional in a way that scattering colors never does.
The set is not only racing. Vintage 1950s Muscle Car on a Country Road sits at the period end, where two-tone paint and heavy chrome trim are historically correct and worth using. Sleek Futuristic Electric Car of the Future goes the other way, with almost no panel lines to work with. Sports Car Drifting on a Race Track and Drag Racing Cars at a Starting Line both include tire smoke, which behaves like steam: leave it as bare paper where it is thickest and let it break up as it drifts away from the wheels. Vintage Camper Van with Surfboards on the Beach and Off-road SUV Climbing a Mountain Trail leave the road altogether, and between them they carry the largest unbroken panels in the set. Classic Car Show with Antique Vehicles on Display goes the opposite way, with a row of upright slatted grilles and a flowering hedge behind them.
More in this direction: Monster Trucks, Trucks and Emergency Vehicles.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you color a car so the paint looks glossy?
Contrast, placed deliberately. Leave a long unbroken strip of bare paper running the length of the car along its highest curve, use your main color across the body panels, and go nearly black in the shadow under the sills and inside the wheel arches. Gloss paint has hard transitions between light and dark, so avoid blending them softly.
How do you design a racing livery?
Two or three colors in bold geometric blocks, repeated consistently across the nose, sides and rear wing, with some panels left white for sponsor space. Real liveries are designed to be identifiable at 200 mph, which means large simple shapes and high contrast. Scattering many colors across the bodywork is what makes an invented design look amateur.
Which car pages suit younger children?
The race car on the track and the monster truck have the boldest outlines and largest panels, and work from about age four. The Formula 1 pit stop has a crew, equipment and a great deal of small detail, and suits ages eight and up.
How do you color tires and wheels?
Not solid black. Use a dark gray across the tire with a slightly lighter band along the top where light catches it, and keep true black for the deep shadow inside the wheel arch. Give the rim a separate metallic gray with a hard white highlight, so it reads as a different material from the rubber.