they don't make the car black and hopefully would use a dif style of 3. I know the 3 can't really be retired and Richard does own the # rights, but I think it would not be fair to Austin to run it in black because it would always remind fans of Sr and then they'd expect the #3 to do great things again and if Austin faultered people would say he's not worthy to drive the 3. Jr felt that if he didn't win the race in the #3 Wrangler car that he'd have been letting people down and not living up to the symbolicness of it.