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S-1672
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500 on (the INDY) 500
Tales, Facts and
Figures on
"The Greatest Race in the World"
by Rick Shaffer
Foreword by Helio Castroneves
Four-Time Indy 500 Winner
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Why is the Indianapolis Motor Speedway 2.5 miles around instead
of five miles?
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Who was an Indy race winner before Ray Harroun?
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What driver had to take a streetcar home to inform his parents
he had just won the Indy 500?
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How was the starting lineup determined in the years before the
cars were qualified?
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Have there always been 33 starters?
Whether the distant past or modern times serves as a lure for "The
Greatest Race in the World," there are literally hundreds of
fascinating, true Indy 500 tales, facts and figures.
One of
the race's most-respected journalists, Rick Shaffer, has gathered
500 of the most interesting anecdotes to come out of the
intersection of 16th Street and Georgetown Road.
500 on (the Indy) 500 chronicles the
famous from Chevrolet to Andretti, the obscure from William Borque
(item #10, the track's first driver fatality) to Simon Pagenaud
(#496), winner 105 years after the last Frenchman to do so.
The ultimate race chronology, this book is for the curious, the
scholar, the passing fan or the diehard. The depth of research is
sure to entertain and illuminate aspects of the Indy 500 new to even
many Indy devotees.
Hard cover, 200 color and B&W images,
280 pages.
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S-1750
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The
Green Flag: Just a Bloke’s Story
by
Barry Green with Gordon Kirby
Barry Green’s new memoir covers his life growing up in Australia and
his early racing efforts aboard his own Formula Fords in Australia
and Formula 3 cars in Europe. Barry and his wife, Jeanne, then moved
to the United States, where he went on to become a very successful
Can-Am and Indy car team manager and owner.
Over 23
years, from 1980-2002, Barry’s cars won six Can-Am races and 47 Indy
car races, including two (and some say three) Indy 500s.
He worked with some great drivers,
including Teo Fabi, Bobby Rahal, Danny Sullivan, Michael Andretti,
Al Unser Jr., Jacques Villeneuve, Dario Franchitti and Paul Tracy,
as well as brilliant designers like Adrian Newey and Tony Cicale,
and a long list of tremendously skilled and motivated mechanics and
crewmen. Barry tells his story with the generous help of these great
drivers, engineers and crewmen.
The Green Flag is a high-quality
coffee-table book, 288 pages with 190 color and B&W photographs and
a complete list of Barry’s race teams’ statistics.
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Leader Card Racers:
A Dynasty of Speed
by Gordon Eliot White
Leader Car Racers is the remarkable story of one family’s
four-generation passion for auto racing. Beginning with a team of
midgets before WW II, successful paper manufacturer Bob Wilke, his
son Ralph, and now his grandsons have owned and sponsored winning
racing cars on the Championship trail, on dirt track, and currently
with a successful return to midgets. With legendary mechanics A. J.
Watson and Jud Phillips, the Wilke Family won the Indy “500” and the
National Championship three times: twice with Roger Ward (1959 &
1962) and once with Bobby Unser (1968). Superbly chronicled by noted
author Gordon White, the story of Leader Card Racers is a testament
to the Wilke family’s devotion to motor sport and to the history of
American oval track racing.
Hard-bound with dust jacket, 228 pages, many photos.
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Chris
Pook & the History of the Long Beach GP
by Gordon Kirby
Foreword by Mario Andretti
When
Chris Pook declared his intention to run a Grand Prix race through
the streets of Long Beach, many people thought he was out of his
mind. But with the powerful support of racing legend Dan Gurney, and
many other enthusiasts, Pook proved his doubters wrong: He built the
most successful street race in American motor racing history.
The race spawned extensive
redevelopment of the city’s coastal downtown area, as Pook’s crazy
idea turned into a model for bringing racing to the people and using
the surrounding event to rebuild a flagging community.
Hard cover, B&W and color photos 320
pages.
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S-1716
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Boost!
Roger Bailey’s Extraordinary
Motor Racing Career
by
Gordon Kirby
Perhaps nobody in the history of automobile racing enjoyed a career
of wider reach and diversity than Roger Bailey.
Over
the course of 52 years (1959–2012) Bailey competed as a mechanic,
engine builder, crew chief, sanctioning body technical inspector and
finally, co-founder and administrator of the Indy Lights series.
Bailey’s career came to its culmination in 1986 when he co-founded
the American Racing Series with Pat Patrick. In 1991, the ARS became
the Indy Lights series with Bailey at the helm of the category
through its heydays until his retirement in 2012.
Hard
cover, 208 pages
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S-1710
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Dirt Tracks to Glory:
The Early Days
of Stock Car Racing As Told by the Participants
by Sylvia
Wilkinson
More
than forty years ago, Sylvia Wilkinson took her note pad, a tape
recorder and an open mind to the dirt bull rings and backwoods of
garages in the American South in the hopes of capturing the
reflections of the people who made NASCAR stock car racing happen.
What she encountered were the folksy origins, colorful characters
and rough beginnings of today's billion-dollar sport.
In
this all-new, beautifully designed and illustrated edition of
Dirt Tracks to Glory we return to the very personal and often
hilarious inside stories of sharp-witted people who became legends
in the early days of NASCAR. Bill France Sr, Humpy Wheeler, Curtis
Turner, "Little Joe" Weatherly, Glenn "Fireball" Roberts, the Flock
Brothers, Banjo Matthews, Smokey Yunick and a host of others emerge
from these pages with their personal reflections and wry commentary
on the way it was in the days of "haulin' shine", bangin' fenders
and out-smartin' the other hot-shoes on Saturday nights.
Author
Wilkinson says: "This book was told to me by and about the people
who went with stock car racing from its beginnings...It is not an
encyclopedia of stock car racing biographies, but a series of
individual remembrances and perspectives of one special revelation
of the American dream - from Dirt tracks to Glory!"
Hard
cover with dust jacket, 208 pages, 100+ B&W photos.
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S-1602
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RACING TO THE FINISH:
My Story
by Dale
Earnhardt Jr. with Ryan McGee
Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s only authorized book revealing the inside track
on his final year of racing and retirement from the driver’s seat.
It
was a seemingly minor crash at Michigan International Speedway in
June 2016 that ended the day early for Dale Earnhardt Jr. What he
didn’t know was that it would also end his driving for the year.
He’d dealt with concussions before, but concussions are like
snowflakes, no two are the same. And recovery can be brutal, and
lengthy. When NASCAR star Dale Earnhardt Jr. retired from
professional stock car racing in 2017, he walked away from his
career as a healthy man. But for years, he had worried that the
worsening effects of multiple racing-related concussions would end
not only his time on the track but his ability to live a full and
happy life.
Torn
between a race-at-all-costs culture and the fear that something was
terribly wrong, Earnhardt tried to pretend that everything was fine,
but the private notes about his escalating symptoms that he kept on
his phone reveal a vicious cycle: suffering injuries on Sunday,
struggling through the week, then recovering in time to race again
the following weekend. For the first time, he shares these notes and
fully reveals the physical and emotional struggles he faced as he
fought to close out his career on his own terms.
In this
candid reflection, Earnhardt opens up about his frustration with the
slow recovery, his admiration for the woman who stood by him through
it all, and his determination to share his own experience so that
others don’t have to suffer in silence. Steering his way to the
final checkered flag of his storied career proved to be the most
challenging race and most rewarding finish of his life.
Hard
cover, 208 pages.
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DRIVE: 9
Lessons to Win in Business
and in Life
by Kelley Earnhardt Miller
An inspirational, practical guide to
success in business and life learned through the opportunities and
challenges of growing up as the daughter of NASCAR legend Dale
Earnhardt Sr. and becoming one of the most influential women in
professional sports.
A successful businesswoman shares her
story of growing up in the world of NASCAR and the lessons she
learned along the way. Kelley never felt she was winning at anything
until she began to deal with the thoughts and feelings that were
driving her decisions and taking her in the wrong direction.
Her journey of transformation is what empowered her to run the
family business in an entirely different way than she had previously
and to lead people not only with her head but also with her heart.
Hard cover, 224 pages.
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S-1697
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RICK MEARS: THANKS
The Story of Rick Mears and
the Mears Gang
by Gordon Kirby
Foreword by Roger Penske
Rick Mears
retired in 1992 at age 41 while still at the height of his powers,
with a record of four Indy 500 victories, three CART Indy Car World
Series championships, 29 individual race victories and 40 pole
positions.
Mears is also recognized as one of the fairest,
most ethical drivers; his behavior on the track was impeccable, the
standard by which all others were judged.
Hard cover w/dust
cover, 265 pp., 200+ photos.
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S-1434
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Second to One: All But For Indy
by
Joe Freeman and Gordon Kirby
foreword by Michael Andretti
Second to One: All But For Indy is a set of
remarkable stories of 40 racing drivers who but for a stroke of bad
luck, an unfortunate last-minute mistake, or just the intervention
of fate, were never able to win America’s greatest race, the
Indianapolis 500.
Written by automotive historian Joseph
Freeman and racing journalist Gordon Kirby, with a foreword by
Michael Andretti, it is a beautifully produced hard cover book
covering the years 1911-2014. The book celebrates the careers of
these 40 great competitors, who in many cases were true champions,
having won many other important races, scoring numerous wins and
championships on a wide range of racetracks, from road courses and
high-banked board speedways to the local dirt track “bullrings” at
the heart of American racing history.
This
select group of men includes names such as Earl Cooper, America’s
first three-time National Champion; Harry Hartz, a national
title-winner who finished second no fewer than three times and
became a winning car owner; Lou Moore, whose team was to enter
winning cars for three straight years; and great champions such as
Ted Horn, Rex Mays, Tony Bettenhausen, Eddie Sachs, Len Sutton, Dan
Gurney, Michael Andretti, Paul Tracy and a host of others.
Second to One also provides an intriguing look at the 100-year
history of the Indianapolis 500 and includes an appendix of “Second
To One” existing cars.
Hard cover, 400+ archival images, 303
pages.
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S-1611
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AN
AMERICAN RACER
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Bobby
Marshman and the Indianapolis 500
by Michael
Argetsinger
In a fine
narrative of Marshman’s meteoric rise to the top of American
championship racing, author Argetsinger captures the amazing career
of one of America’s greatest talents behind the wheel, whose life
was sadly cut short by a tragic testing accident at Phoenix in
November of 1964.
Hard cover, 300 pp., 220 photos.
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S-1590
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MODERN THUNDER: The Illustrated History of USAC
National Sprint Car Racing 1981 - 2017
by Dave
Argabright, John Mahoney,
and Patrick Sullivan
Years
in the making, Modern Thunder is much more than a history book. It
is a narrative, telling the story of several generations of racers
through powerful words and spectacular photographs. Award-winning
writers Dave Argabright and Patrick Sullivan provided the text,
while legendary racing photographer John Mahoney reached deep into
the archives to provide over 1,300 memorable images. You’ll find:
 Year-by-year
coverage of every USAC National Sprint Car season.
Each
season from 1981 to 2017 is detailed with eight full pages of
photos, a season summary, race results, and statistics.
Each
of the 1956 to 1980 seasons is recapped with a full page of
statistics and race results.
Detailed
series statistics.
A
complete listing of Indiana Sprint Week competition.
Hard
cover, 380 pages, over 1,300 color and B&W photographs.
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S-1588
Original Price:
$59.95
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Wally Dallenbach:
Steward of the Sport
By Gordon Kirby
Celebrated author Gordon Kirby traces the long and significant life
of Wally Dallenbach, whose contributions to the sport of automobile
racing as a driver, official, and all-around good guy, have been
enormous over the 50 years of his remarkable career.
Hard cover.
190 pages, with 140 B&W and color photos.
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S-1420
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THE LAST DAYS OF
HENRY FORD
by Henry
Dominguez
A dynamic and thoroughly researched biography from a
leading Ford historian; delivers a huge amount of new information,
and revealing family detail.
Hard cover, 366 pp.,
100+ images.
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S-1730
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KING OF THE
BOARDS:
The
Life and Times of Jimmy Murphy
by Gary
D. Doyle (2002)
Beginning as a riding mechanic and young colleague for the
Duesenberg Brothers and racing greats Eddie O’Donnell and Tommy
Milton, Jimmy Murphy rapidly rose to become one of the greatest
drivers of the 1920s. He drove championship Duesenberg and Miller
cars, winning on America’s high-banked board track speedways at
Indianapolis and at the French Grand Prix.
His brilliant but all-too-brief career spanned the period
from September 1919 to his tragic death in a 1924 September 100-mile
dirt track race at Syracuse, New York. Author Gary Doyle’s highly
readable and extensively illustrated book provides an excellent
analysis of Murphy’s life, the significance of his accomplishments
and the high drama of championship racing in the era of the roaring
twenties.
Hard cover, 336 pages, heavily illustrated with B&W and
color photos.
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S-1729
Original Price: $80.00
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$29.95
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SUNSHINE, SPEED, AND A SURPRISE:
The 1959 Grand Prix of the United States
by Joel E. Finn (2006)
This is
a story of speed, challenge and champions. In the decade after WW
ll, in an America gone patriotic and car crazy, racing promoter Alec
Ulmann created an unlikely sports car race circuit on an airfield
near Sebring, a sleepy town in central Florida. Within a few years,
tens of thousands of fans made the trek to the events he organized
there.
However, it was after years of negotiation and effort that Ulmann
scored motor racing’s biggest prize: his circuit in Sebring would
host the first Formula 1 Grand Prix race to be staged in America.
Better still, it would be at the end of the racing season when the
1959 FIA World Drivers Championship would be decided in what turned
out to be a surprising finish.
Hardcover, 216 pages, lavishly
illustrated with 330 black & white photographs.
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S-1728
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CARIBBEAN
CAPERS: The Cuban Grand Prix Races of 1957,
1958, and 1960
by Joel E.
Finn (2010)
The three Cuban Grand Prix races brought the excitement of
the world’s best sports cars to one of the world’s most glamorous
playgrounds. This is a compelling story, filled with unexpected
twists and maneuverings.
Author Joel Finn, who was one of
the timing officials at the races in 1958, has gathered a riveting
account from original correspondence and interviews with
participants as well as rare records from the organizers.
Includes more than 500 images of memorabilia and historic
photographs of the cars, drivers and events—many never before
published—as well as meticulously compiled charts of the race
entries and race results ensure that this will remain the
authoritative account of the events in Cuba during the Golden Age of
sports car racing.
Hard cover, 260 pages.
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S-1690
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LOST IN TIME: Formula
5000 in
North America
by
John Zimmermann
During the 1960s and 1970s, American
road racing flourished, with hard-fought championships for the
Can-Am, the Trans-Am and last but not least the Formula 5000 series.
Built around the idea of a standard engine size for American
V-8s, Formula 5000 attracted excellent entries from well-known teams
such as Dan Gurney, Jim Hall, Carl Haas, Parnelli Jones, Roger
Penske and Carl Hogan. The series led manufacturers to develop
relatively affordable chassis designed to compete on the numerous
North American road courses spread across the U. S. and Canada.
In this volume John Zimmermann’s excellent round-up of Formula
5000 provides the first comprehensive overview of all the elements
of this great racing series. Fully researched and extensively
illustrated, the book provides an essential history for students of
racing history and fans alike, a must for the true enthusiast.
Hard cover coffee-table book, 224 pages heavily illustrated with
color & B&W photos.
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A History of Auto Racing in New
England
- A
Project of the North East
Motor
Sports Museum
There has never
been a book like this one, a carefully researched and written
biography of automobile racing in New England.
A
History of Auto Racing in New England celebrates the colorful
past of racing cars in the six states on road courses, up mountains,
along the ocean’s beaches, around dirt and paved ovals, and down
strips of concrete and asphalt.
More than the cars, we
have focused on the people who drove them and those who created the
stages on which the drivers exhibited their courage and their skill.
The early races that make up much of the book were profoundly
dangerous; participation required abnormal courage. As we celebrate
the winners, we mourn with the families and friends of those who
paid racing’s ultimate price.
A few have become wealthy
beyond their wildest dreams through New England racing. The majority
have participated for the love of going fast, the joy of turning
wrenches while looking for more speed or better handling or to hear
the cheers of the crowd following a winning Saturday night or Sunday
afternoon.
Go inside this book’s covers to discover how
racing in New England has made so many lives more thrilling and
fulfilling – and in ways that could never happen again.
Proceeds benefit NEMSM.
Hard cover, 400+ B&W
photos, 304 pages.
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S-1288
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Distant
Thunder: When Midgets Were Mighty
by Dick
Wallen
Distant Thunder: When Midgets Were Mighty presents a thorough
history of the birth and flowering of the California midget car
racing craze from 1914 to 1950.
Nearly 400 pages long,
it is crammed with over a thousand photographs, original color
paintings and detailed information about the "Doodle-Bug" racers
that captivated Californians and the nation from the late 1930s
through 1950. Many great American champions and Indy 500 winners
such as Sam Hanks, Bill Vukovich, Bob Sweikert and others learned
their track skills in these fast and dangerous little cars.
Hard cover, 395 pages.
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S-1287
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Fabulous Fifties:
American Championship
Racing
by Dick Wallen
with Foreword by Champion Rodger Ward
Fabulous Fifties: American Championship Racing
is packed with hundreds of vintage photos and championship results
and includes a host of great first-hand stories about the era's
prominent drivers, mechanics, builders, promoters, and owners.
With box scores and statistics of all the
National Championship races throughout the 1950s, this fine book
chronicles the formative years of
America's post-war National Championship, when
very brave and very tough young men vied for victory on a host of
dirt ovals and Indianapolis,
with little more than an inexpensive helmet to protect themselves.
Hard cover, 576 pages.
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S-1290
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Riverside Raceway:
Palace of
Speed
by Dick Wallen
Riverside: Palace
of Speed
revives great
memories of the extraordinary demanding
Southern California championship road course that sadly
closed in 1989 to make way for a shopping mall. Dick Wallen covers
everything from the construction of the track in 1957, through late
1950s and early 1960s sports car racing, to NASCAR stock car racing,
National Championship Indy car events and International contests
such as the United Stated Grand Prix and the Los Angeles Times Grand
Prix.
Legendary drivers like sports car racing's Phil
Hill, Jimmy Clark and Mark Donohue, NASCAR's Junior Johnson, Richard
Petty, and Dale Earnhardt, Indy Car racing's Parnelli Jones, Mario
Andretti, A. J. Foyt and Rick Mears, and off-road racing's Mickey
Thompson, Walker Evans and Roger Mears are all covered in this
wide-ranging volume. Not forgotten are several seasons of drag
races, most of them over a half-mile strip instead of the
conventional quarter-mile.
Hard cover, 352 pages with over
1000 photographs.
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S-1291
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Roaring Roadsters: The Road to Indy
by Dick Wallen
with Foreword by A.J. Watson
Dick Wallen's acclaimed coffee-table volume
covers the post-World War II years when young hot-rodders hopped up
their street cars to go racing on oval tracks. As it quickly proved,
this very popular California
phenomenon produced wheel-to-wheel action and some of the most
famous drivers in American racing history, including
Indianapolis
500 winners Troy Ruttman, Rodger Ward and Parnelli Jones.
With a foreword by master mechanic A. J.
Watson telling the full history of the roadsters, this book features
over 800 black and white photographs, along with colorful artwork,
programs and maps of the famous tracks.
Hard cover, 272
pages.
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S-1292
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Seventies Championship Revolution
by Dick Wallen
with Foreword by Al Unser
Seventies
Championship Revolution
provides the
exciting history of the nearly 150 American National Championship
races run during the 1970s, when numerous chassis and engine makers
struggled to find the right combination of power and downforce, as
wings and aerodynamics became the key defining force in top-level
racing.
Offering stories of races on ovals, road
courses and street circuits, with over 500 color photos throughout
the 240 pages, this book provides the full history of how American
and foreign ingenuity adapted to the challenges of modern automotive
competition.
Hard cover, 240 pages.
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S-1328
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LET’S GO RACING!
The Amazing Story of the American Speed
Association
by Rex Robbins with Dave Argabright
Foreword by Darrell
Waltrip
ASA was one of the most influential and
dynamic racing series in history, and Rex Robbins was the man who
gave it life.
This is the fascinating story of how ASA came
about, how it soared to dizzying heights, and the politics that
brought the series’ premature demise.
Robbins joins noted
author Dave Argabright in telling his story.
Hard cover, 352 pp, 32 pp of photos.
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Let 'Em
All Go!
by
Chris Economaki
with Dave Argabright
Chris Economaki is the world’s
best-known reporter of the auto racing scene. No man, with either
the written or electronic word, has had an effect on auto racing
like Economaki.
The
most powerful leaders of the sport take great care to cultivate a
favorable relationship; drivers and mechanics listen carefully to
his honest, revealing, direct questions; and the everyman hurries to
read Chris’s take on what’s happening in the sport of Auto racing.
Now, with award winning
author and columnist Dave Argabright, Economaki tells the story of
the sport from the perspective of the man who was there for all to
see.
Hard
cover, 8 5/8” x 5 1/2 “, 352 pages,
32
pages of black & white and color photos.
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S-1400
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On Top of the
World:
The Life and Times
of a Racing Pioneer
by Larry Moore
with Dave Argabright
Across four decades Larry Moore
was synonymous with winning, innovation, and a larger-than-life
personality. In this groundbreaking book Larry opens up to share the
story of his fascinating life and career, and how the booming sport
of dirt late model racing began. Larry reaches deep inside himself
to reveal a complex man who rose to stardom in a complex sport. This
isn't just fun and games; Larry describes the lowest lows right
along with the soaring highs.
It would be difficult to find
anyone in racing who has had a career quite like Larry Moore. On the
dirt he was phenomenal, the first repeat winner of the World 100 and
the first to win it three times. Today he is regarded as one of the
greatest dirt drivers in history. Yet he was also an accomplished
pavement racer, winning against the best in ARCA, ASA, and USAC. He
also proved his mettle in USAC sprint car competition. Few racers
have followed such a diverse path, and even fewer were as
successful. Readers will also find themselves mesmerized by the
story of one of the greatest personalities in the history of short
track racing.
This is one of the most entertaining books Dave
Argabright has produced. Hilarious, tragic, outrageous, colorful,
revealing...this is the story of a man who has truly stood...On
Top Of The World.
Hard cover, 336 pages, 32 pages of
color and b/w photos.
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S-1461
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I
LOVE TO MAKE THE DIRT FLY
A Biography of Carl
G. Fisher
1874–1939
by Carl Hungness
The fascinating story of serial
entrepreneur Carl G. Fisher, who with 3 partners developed the
Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the Indy 500, as well as creating
Miami Beach, inventing superior car headlights, and other
accomplishments.
Hungness spent 16 years researching this
uncommon and ultimately tragic character, who died impoverished and
alcoholic at age 64.
Hard cover, 192 pp., 251 colorized
photos.
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S-1422
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Pole
Position – Rex Mays:
The Life of
America’s Most Popular Race Driver and a Long Look Back at American
Auto Racing and Life circa 1931-1949
by Bob Schilling
Almost
ten years in the making, this massive book is the thoroughly
researched biography of “arguably the greatest driver of his
generation,” although victory in the Indianapolis 500 eluded him.
Its focus is the two decades of American auto racing and life from
the Great Depression, through World War II and into the Cold War.
In that period, Mays went from boy wonder of the speedways
to elder statesman of the sport, winning 2 AAA National
Championships, 5 AAA Sprint Car Championships, and 4 Indianapolis
pole positions among other achievements before his death at Del Mar
in 1949.
Hard cover, 11 1/2 x 8 3/4, 496 pages, 800 B&W
photographs.
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$39.95
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Our Last
Box!
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FLORIDA MOTORSPORTS
RETROSPECTIVE, Vol. 1, Second Edition
by
Eddie Roche
Back at
last is Volume 1 of Eddie Roche’s classic
Florida Motorsports
Retrospective Pictorial, long out of print and much requested.
But the second edition is greatly enhanced with more track
chapters; updated track records and point champs; major event winner
listings, additional photos and much-improved photo quality. It’s
now a comprehensive directory of 150 past and current Florida tracks
(ovals, road courses, and dragways).
Even if you have the
original, you will want this collectible second edition.
Soft cover, 200 indexed pages, 1500 photos.
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Inside Herman's World
by Kenny
Wallace
with Joyce Standridge
One of auto racing’s most likable personalities,
Kenny Wallace is also a dedicated racer.
In a
fascinating recounting of his roller coaster life
and career, Wallace shares hilarious stories from a
racing-obsessed youth, the pain of losing his best
friend, and remarkable insights from a life
well-lived.
A NASCAR crew chief before he was 21 years old, a
nine-time winner in the Busch Series, and a go-to
driver for Nextel Cup car owners, “Herman” provides
an insider’s view of great drivers such as Dale
Earnhardt, Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart, Richard Petty
and so many more, including brother Rusty Wallace,
as well as a behind-the-scenes view of
motorsports TV.
Inside Herman’s World is the
rollicking good-time fans would expect, but it’s
also poignant and perceptive. Another must read for
NASCAR and short track fans alike!
Soft cover, 264
pages, 300 B&W photos.
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S-816
Price: $16.95
Special $14.95
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PAVED TRACK
DIRT
TRACK
by Lew Boyd
Old
Bridge Stadium in New Jersey and Nazareth Raceway in Pennsylvania
were gritty but dramatic tracks that hosted the finest drivers from
all over the Eastern Seaboard.
Amazing tales of Schneider, Flemke,
Tasnady, the Reutimanns, Kelly, Frazee, Hildreth and many more.
Hundreds of pictures, most
never before published.
The latest in our track book series.
Soft cover, 8 1/2" by 11",
220 pages, over 200 photos.
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S-187
Price: $39.95
Special: $29.95
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Kurtis-Kraft Midget Genealogy
Companion Edition,
An Illustrated History
By Bill Montgomery
This “Companion Edition”
is a full volume update of Bill Montgomery’s December
1999 publication, Kurtis-Kraft Midget- A Genealogy of
Speed.”
The companion is hard bound, 167 indexed
pages, and it contains hundreds of remarkably good photographs
of Kurtis-Kraft midgets everywhere they raced. It is
inconceivable that any open wheel enthusiasts would
not enjoy this book.
Hard cover, 8 3/8” x 9
7/16”, 167 pages.
over 200 black and white photos.
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S-180
Orig. Price: $40.00
Special: $14.95
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DAREDEVILS OF
THE
FRONTIER
by Keith Herbst
Coastal 181 is extremely proud to have worked so closely with Keith
Herbst to publish this title before he died in June 2009. It is a
beautiful hardcover book, painstakingly researched – a treasure
trove of stories, stats and photos for any midget enthusiast.
Keith Herbst chronicles
The Daredevils—a unique breed of Eastern
and Midwestern race car drivers who met
regularly on the common ground of the
Niagara Frontier to test their mettle.
Daredevils is a visual remembrance of
the excitement and the thrills these
drivers provided to record-breaking
crowds of race fans in the turbulent
1940s and 1950s.
Hardcover, est. 250 pages with
over 400 photographs.
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