Chuck Armstrong

Chuck Armstrong is a professional race car who competed in the Piston Cup Racing Series. He is extremely allergic to certain types of fuels, and as a result, he has to stay at least five feet away from them. Because other Piston Cup racers used different kinds of fuels, Chuck became infamous among other racers for his allergies, causing other cars to be afraid to pass him.Car Finder Game Despite this, Chuck also has a reputation for being one of the toughest and most determined racers. In one season, while suffering from a worn-out clutch, Chuck managed to push through and bump-start himself enough to emerge victorious.
==History==
===Cars===
In Cars, Chuck is one of the thirty-six Piston Cup racers who compete in the Dinoco 400, the final race of the season at the Motor Speedway of the South. During the race, Chick Hicks causes a multi-car pileup between several of the racers. Armstrong crashes and flies a long distance before landing, receiving heavy cosmetic damage. Once the crash subsides and most of the damaged racers go into the pits for quick repair, Tow is seen pulling Chuck away from the track, while he groans and begs to his crew chief "Don't take me out, coach. I can still race!", however, he was seen without damage in the restart, most likely due to an animation error. 
===Between Cars and Cars 3===
Between the events of Cars and Cars 3, Chuck retired after 2007 and Dud Throttleman succeeded him as the Mood Springs racer.
===The Rookie===
While Chuck does not appear in the actual comic itself, he is seen on one of the covers for The Rookie. He is one of several race cars piled up on top of one another, while Lightning McQueen is trying to navigate through them.
==Physical description==
Chuck Armstrong is an Axxelo Fission stock car and uses Lightyear racing tires. He has blueish green eyes and a black grille that resembles a mustache. He is painted in a dark blue livery and has the white Mood Springs logo on his hood, rear fenders, trunk, and rear, he also has stickers imitating headlights and tailights, being shaped as a trapezoids (headlights) and wide rectangles (tailights) He also has the number 33 on his doors and roof.
The Axxelo Fission is based on the 1995 NASCAR version of the Chevrolet Monte Carlo.
==Official profiles==
===Car Finder Game===
===Meet the Cars===
*Chuck has always had a slight allergy to certain fuels The side effects make it not so pleasant for other cars to be within five feet of him. Once he started racing professionally, not only did the problem not go away, it actually got worse at high speeds. It got so bad the other cars didn't want to pass him. Chuck hopes it's a good example of taking a problem and turning it into something good.
===Pixarpedia===
*An Axxelo/Fission, Chuck Armstrong suffers from slight allergies to certain fuels. His sponsor is Mood Springs.
===Cars: Character Encyclopedia===
*Chuck Armstrong and his team are sponsored by Mood Springs. Chuck might be coiled and ready to race but an allergy to certain fuels makes him an unpopular competitor.
==Gallery==
Ca2chuck.png|Diecast artwork 
Ca1chuck.png|Flipped diecast artwork
RaceDamagedChuckArmstrongArtwork.jpg|Race Damaged artwork
File:Chuck Armstrong's blue rims.jpg|Cars
File:Chuck Armstrong - HIS SCENE.jpeg|Cars
Chuckarmstrong33.jpg|Cars
File:CarsAikenAxler2.jpg|Cars
File:TrunkFreshTeam.jpg|Cars
MoodSpringsPitCrew.png|Chuck and pit crew
File:PittiesCarsMSOS.jpg|Cars
File:RomanDunesCars.jpg|Cars
File:Misti Motorkrass (again).png|Cars
File:CarsScreen27.jpg|Cars
File:Cars-disneyscreencaps.com-450.jpg|Cars
File:Winford in the crash.jpg|Cars
File:Cars-disneyscreencaps.com-479.jpg|Chuck is getting ready to take off
File:HaulInngasCars.jpg|Chuck takes off
ChuckArmstrongCars.jpg|Chuck Went flying
Chuck Armstrong’s persistence.jpeg|Cars
ChuckArmstrongCars11.jpg|Chuck being Towed out of the Race
File:Ernie-gearson-personnage-cars-01.jpg|Cars
Chuck Armstrong in restart.PNG|Chuck in the restart even though he was badly damaged he should've not continued
File:Cars-disneyscreencaps.com-672.jpg|Cars
File:Ernie-gearson-personnage-cars-02.jpg|Cars
File:ChuckArmstrong.jpg|Car Finder Game profile
File:ChuckArmstrongCarFinder2.jpg|Car Finder Game profile (Damaged)
The Rookie Cover 3rd Issue.jpg|Armstrong on the cover of The Rookie
Mood Springs (Chuck Armstrong).jpg|Diecast
Damaged-mood-springs.jpg|Diecast (Race Damaged)
Fl-race-damaged-mood-springs.jpg|2010 release (Race Damaged)
Mood springs cars 2016 single - piston cup.jpg|2016 release
143105603.jpg|Mid 2019 release (mislabelled as Dud Throttleman)
Mood springs blue desert single - dinoco 400.jpg|Late 2019 release (mislabelled as Dud Throttleman again)
File:Chuck Armstrong 2025 release.png|2025 Release
==Names in other languages==
*Lithuanian: Čakas Amstrongas
*Russian: Чак Армстронг (transcription: Chak Armstrong)
*Ukrainian: Чак Армстронг (transcription: Chak Armstronh)
== Trivia==
*When Chuck is shown flying through the air, he has a female tone, but when he is towed away, he has a male tone.
** However, it is possible that it was actually higher pitched, but when he speaks while being towed away, it is in normal pitch.
*In Cars: The Videogame, a racer named Banks competes in the 2006 Piston Cup season instead of Armstrong. His number is 34 in most versions of the game, but he retains the number 33 in the Xbox 360 version.
*Prototype images of Chuck's die-cast model incorrectly depict him as a Capitol Motors Verve XT. The actual release, however, remains accurate to his appearance in Cars.
*In the movie and on his artwork, he has blue rims, but on his diecast, he has black rims. 
**This was fixed when his Race Damaged diecast was released in the Final Lap Collection.
*In his Pit Race-Off diecast also incorrectly depicted his model as the Capitol Motors Verve XT.
*In the 2018/2019 diecast mainline, he is mistakenly called Dud Throttleman.
**It happens again on the 2022 Speedway of the South Multipack.
*He is one of the five Piston Cup racers from the first movie that have a speaking role other than Lightning McQueen, The King, Chick Hicks, and Dale Earnhardt Jr.
*Chuck, James Cleanair, Manny Flywheel & Aiken Axler are the only racers not to appear in Lightning McQueen's pre-race monologue.
==References==
Category:Cars characters
Category:Comic characters
Category:Playable characters
Category:Cars Daredevil Garage characters
Category:Axxelo
Category:Team members
Category:Racers
Category:Piston Cup racers
Category:Mood Springs
Category:Magazine models
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Category:Characters with Lightyear tires
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