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     At the AGM for the 2006/07 season, it was decided that Numbers on cars would again be enforced. When you sign up for club membership, you're given the opportunity to choose for yourself a number, from those remaining between 1 and 99. That is your car number for that season - in this case 2006/07. You're required to have that number displayed on your car in an easily readable fashion. There are two main reasons for this.
     One, to aid spectators in identifying a car and its called position. We've been calling by driver name for quite some time now, but a new driver or a visitor to our track (and thus a potential new racer) doesn't know all of us by our cars - but if they hear "Car 12 is in first, followed closely by 5 and 64", they can pick out just what is going on -- assuming the numbers are in place and readable.
    Two, well, Real Race Cars Have Numbers. There is much emotion instilled in this one, and a lot of back and forth, but really if we want to be taken any more seriously than just a bunch of "boys with toys" then we ought to make whatever efforts we can to present our hobby/sport with a modicum of professionalism. This is an easy one - put a number on your race car.
     Below are a few examples.

This is perfectly acceptable. If you are uncomfortable with obscuring your paint work, you can certainly put the numbers on the windshield - it's easily spotted, and won't cover up your pretty paint and stickers... never mind there aren't any on this car when the photo was taken.

Here's another good example - nice bold numbers, stuck on the outer side of the car (we race clockwise on our track, so the left side of the car faces the outside of the track the most). Easily spotted, easily read.

A very racecar-like example. Numbers can be found placed at the front of the car, and on either side. Points for contrast, being black on a white board, but they could stand to be a bit bigger and thus more readable at speed.

Here again, a reasonably good placement, and good size. The contrast though, while there, could stand to be a bit higher - in this case would've benefited from a white or even say a yellow number board.

On the surface this one has everything going for it.. big numbers, right on the windshield, black on white. However.. put a chassis under it and the numbers blend right in - from only a few feet away and at speed, the numbers vanish entirely, let alone become unreadable. In this case either leaving much more white behind the numbers in their current place, or moving them onto either the hood or the side of the car (black on fluorescent pink!) would work wonders.