Quote Originally Posted by Mirek View Post
555 is a tobacco brand but that's really long time a go when it was involved in rally.
Yes 555 is tobacco company, part of British American tobacco along with lucky strike. Hence why some of the Subaru's had *555 BAT prefix number plates.

They were also title sponsor of BAR F1 team that ran lucky strike livery. Back in the day when Dave Richards was running BAR they wanted to run one car in 555 blue and yellow livery, and one car in white and red lucky strike livery. This was not allowed by FIA, so one solution was to run the cars with the livery of each tobacco company on each side of the car split down the middle.
This was only used for one or two practice sessions though I believe. (I know it's F1 but kind of interesting)