Top Fuel racer Brady Kalivoda is sporting one of the coolest helmets we've seen in a long time. The paint scheme, which was designed by Mike at Razors Image out of Chicago, is a combination of old school and new school helmets.

"My dad, Dick Kalivoda, used to race back in the 1960s before I was born," said Kalivoda. "He raced a lot of classes up to and including Top Fuel. He's most well known for driving 'The Joker' Top Fueler in the late 60s. Even though he quit driving before I was born he has a trophy room with all the old helmets and breather masks and things. I used to go around wearing his helmet. I actually have photos of myself running around the house wearing the thing. That's when men were men, wearing open face helmets and breather masks. So I called my dad and said 'I need you to send me your helmet.' And he's really protective of that,

Top Fuel racer Brady Kalivoda is sporting one of the coolest helmets we've seen in a long time. The paint scheme, which was designed by Mike at Razors Image out of Chicago, is a combination of old school and new school helmets.

"My dad, Dick Kalivoda, used to race back in the 1960s before I was born," said Kalivoda. "He raced a lot of classes up to and including Top Fuel. He's most well known for driving 'The Joker' Top Fueler in the late 60s. Even though he quit driving before I was born he has a trophy room with all the old helmets and breather masks and things. I used to go around wearing his helmet. I actually have photos of myself running around the house wearing the thing. That's when men were men, wearing open face helmets and breather masks. So I called my dad and said 'I need you to send me your helmet.' And he's really protective of that,

"I mean that's it there's only one of them, that's it. He wanted to know what I was going to do with it and I reassured him to trust me, it will be okay. I sent it to Razor and what he did was he replicated my dad's helmet with the blue and white and the gold leaf. You can see the fat rubber grommet with the open face and the mask. He also had his name on the front as most of the drivers did back then. The concept was kind of a new school paint job like you see these days with metallic flames and all kinds of craziness, kind of ripping away to expose the old school underneath. When we got it back and my dad got his helmet safely in hand and he saw this lid for the first time he did approve. He's my biggest fan so this is really a tribute to him. I think he feels good about it and I do too. Without him I wouldn't be here."