Fifty Years of Speed:
The Long Beach Grand Prix 1975-2025

by Dave Wolin

The complete history of the Long Beach GP, race by race, from the 1975 Formula 5000 race, won by Brian Redman, through the Formula One years, CART and up to the 2024 Indy Car race.

Plus the Toyota Celebrity Race, Trans-Am, Historic Formula Exhibitions, IMSA and more. Includes results, photos, magazine articles, and stories.

Everything you ever wanted know!

Comes with a DVD of all the photos, magazine articles and more.

Soft cover, 357 pages, B&W photos.

 Autographed by the author.

100 YEARS OF LEGENDS
The Official Celebration of the
Le Mans 24 Hours

by Gerard Holtz

Published in collaboration with the ACO (Automobile Club de l’Ouest), organizers of the Le Mans 24 Hours, this official book celebrates the centenary of the world’s greatest sports car race - 1923 to 2023.

Besides recalling the most memorable moments in the event’s history, 100 Years of Legends takes an imaginative thematic approach in examining a huge range of topics to give a complete picture of the entire period, right up to Ferrari’s victory in the centenary year.

All the important subjects have their place, including the great drivers and cars, and are presented in an appealing style with plenty of thought-provoking angles. Technical evolution receives particularly enlightening coverage, with emphasis on the innovations and curiosities so evident at Le Mans over the years.

 Extensive period illustration blends with ‘infographics,’ diagrams, poster artwork and memorabilia to provide a visually vivid presentation. 

This is the complete story of the Le Mans 24 Hours, told from the inside.

Hard cover, 336 pages.

TEXAS LEGEND:
Jim Hall and his Chaparrals

by George Levy

One of the greatest drivers of his generation, Jim Hall is even better known as an innovator. From tiny Chaparral Cars in Midland, Texas, a series of vehicles emerged that changed the face of racing. Hall’s high-winged Chaparral 2E Can-Am car and 2F World Sportscar may be the most influential race vehicles of the 20th century. Today, every Formula 1 car uses technology that Chaparral pioneered in the mid-1960s.

 In this authorized biography, Jim Hall tells his full story for the first time. Packed with facts and anecdotes and lavishly illustrated with period photographs by many of the world’s best motorsports photographers.

Hard cover, 484 pages.

The Life of Ted Horn:
American Racing Champion

by Russ Catlin

This is a faithful reprint of the 1949 Floyd Clymer publication of the same title by the author Russ Catlin. This tribute to Ted Horn’s accomplishments is best summed up by Floyd Clymer’s original ‘announcement’ published at the beginning of the book:

“This book on the life of Ted Horn we believe to be a most accurate and interesting biography of a truly great racing driver and one who was beloved by the thousands who knew him and by hundreds of thousands who saw him perform on the race tracks of the nation.

Ted Horn was not only one of the world's outstand­ing drivers and a great champion ... he was a man who came up the hard way ... he asked and gave no quarter. He was honest and sincere in his desire to build interest in automobile racing. He planned his campaigns and races carefully and he injected busi­ness methods into the sport of automobile racing. His path was never a bed of roses ... and his grit and stick-to-itiveness made him a leader in his chosen pro­fession. He was considerate and thoughtful of his competitors and I am sure that Ted Horn never knowingly made an enemy. He had a great sense of humor ... he liked to smile and make others happy…

The author of this book, Russ Catlin, has generously waived his right to the author's royalty in order that the royalties might be paid to Ted Horn's widow and his three children. The story was written by Mr. Catlin after a great deal of research and contact with those close to Ted Horn. It is written in an interesting, breezy style that will surely appeal to the racing fans of the world.”

Even though many years have passed since this book was first published, it’s a wonderful insight into the early days of auto racing and we are pleased that we have the opportunity to make it available once again to a new generation of auto racing enthusiasts worldwide.

Soft cover, 224 pages and
100 illustrations and charts.

With over 200 new images, the new edition of We Were the Ramchargers is perfect for drag-racing enthusiasts. This book takes readers behind the scenes with the group of Chrysler engineers who, from the 1950s through the 1970s, became one of the most successful and influential drag racing teams of all time.

The only team of engineers from an automobile manufacturer to drag race successfully, the Ramchargers broke the most time barriers in drag-racing history and earned the most National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) Super Stock titles during the sport’s golden era of factory competition.

Author Dave Rockwell, a Ramcharger himself, interviewed more than 40 team members, competitors, and track operators for We Were the Ramchargers, making it the first and only book to provide inside details on all elements of the Ramchargers story.

 In addition to chronicling the races they won and legendary cars they developed (including the High and Mighty, 426 Hemi, and first Funny Car), Rockwell opens corporate and personal files to take readers behind the doors at Chrysler (showing, among other things, how the Ramchargers helped pioneer the platform team concept), while revealing the personalities of the men who made it all happen.

Hard cover, 396 pp.

RIVERSIDE VOLUME ONE:
From Turkey Farm to Race Track, to Shopping Mall in 30 Hot, Cold, and Dusty Years  

by Dave Wolin

The history of the legendary road course that defined racing in Southern California racing.

Volume One covers the construction, early pro races, the USRRC, the Can Am and Single Seat Can Am, Formula One, Midgets, Sprints and Go Karts, Indy Cars, Formula 5000, other happenings at the track - and a chapter on crooks and criminals.

Written in scrapbook style, full of newspaper and magazine articles, photos and stories from those who were there. Autographed by the author; comes with a DVD of all the photos and newspaper/ magazine articles in the book, plus interviews, films and an assortment of videos.

Soft cover, 484 pages.

RIVERSIDE VOLUME TWO:
From Turkey Farm to Race Track, to Shopping Mall in 30 Hot, Cold, and Dusty Years  

by Dave Wolin

The history of the legendary road course that defined racing in Southern California racing.

Volume Two covers Stock Car Racing, the Trans Am, IROC, Off Road Racing, Drag Racing, Club Racing, Workers, Motorcycles, Movies and Other Events, plus comments from those who were there.

Written in scrapbook style, full of newspaper and magazine articles, photos and stories. Autographed by the author; comes with a DVD of all the photos and newspaper/magazine articles in the book plus interviews, films and an assortment of videos.

Soft cover, 552 pages.

QUARTER-MILE CORVETTES 1953-1975: The History of Chevrolet’s Sports Car at the Drag Strip

by Steve Holmes

Racing historian Steve Holmes breaks new ground by unearthing the complete early history of the Corvette in drag racing. Quarter-Mile Corvettes focuses on the period from 1953 to 1975, which spans the first two decades of Corvette V-8 production.

Fittingly, this was also the era considered by many to be the greatest in drag racing’s history, and Corvettes encapsulated the vibrancy of the period in a way that will never be repeated.

 Certainly, Chevrolet never intended for the Corvette to become a quarter-mile terror, but today, its nameplate has become one of the longest running in all of drag racing.

Soft cover, 192 pages, 372 color and B&W photos.

VUKOVICH
The Man Who Wouldn’t Lift

by Angelo Angelopolous

edited by Mark Montieth

Bill Vukovich was the among greatest race drivers of his era, a grim, hard-charging product of a humble and difficult childhood. He honed his racing skills and temperament on the Midget and Sprint Car tracks in California and then went on to dominate the Indianapolis 500. He led 150 laps of the race in 1952 before steering failure forced him out eight laps before the finish. The winner in 1953 and ’54, he still is the only driver to have led the most laps in the race for three consecutive years. He had a 17-second lead after 57 laps in 1955 when a multi-car accident on the backstretch sent him flying over the outside wall. He landed upside down on parked cars and was killed instantly.

Indianapolis sportswriter Angelo Angelopolous, widely recognized as one of the best in the country at his craft, was the only media member to grow close to Vukovich. He dedicated himself to telling Vukovich’s dramatic life story.

He was working against a tight “deadline,” however, because he was slowly dying of leukemia. Angelopolous, who died in 1962 at age 43, had a contract with a publishing house and left behind an edited manuscript that for unknown reasons never reached print. He had insider access to Vukovich’s garage at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and socialized with him as well. He presents never-before-published details of Vukovich’s life and career, including dialogue that will make readers feel as if they are along for the ride. The story reads like fiction but is thoroughly researched and entirely truthful—altogether an unforgettable story. 

Journalist Mark Montieth learned about the manuscript from the author’s nephew, who had kept the typed manuscript stored away for years after Angelopolous died. It was an intimidating editorial project because of many hand-written margin notes and had to be retyped into a laptop to work on it. Montieth added a lengthy prologue about the author and an epilogue that brings the Vukovich history, including later family history, up to date.

Hard cover, 240 pp.

The First Lady of Dirt: The Triumphs and Tragedy of Racing Pioneer Cheryl Glass

by Bill Poehler

The incredible, little-known story of the first successful Black woman in the sport of auto racing in the United States. Early in her career, Cheryl Glass looked like a lock to become the first Black woman to compete in the Indianapolis 500. From racing quarter-midgets cars at ten, to Indy Lights in her twenties, Cheryl was on her way towards a winning career in auto racing.

Bill Poehler (author of the highly reviewed The Brown Bullet: Rajo Jack's Drive to Integrate Auto Racing) tells Cheryl’s full story for the first time. He recounts how Cheryl rapidly became the first successful Black woman in the sport, yet frequently encountered racist and sexist taunts from other drivers and fans throughout her career. While appearing to have it all—talent, ambition, looks—she faced many challenges on and off the track and her life soon spun out of control.

Featuring exclusive interviews with Cheryl’s mother, friends, and competitors, The First Lady of Dirt takes you behind the scenes and in the driver’s seat of Cheryl’s life. Poehler, an amateur racer himself, places the reader at the track, smelling the dirt and fumes, hearing the roaring engines and crashing metal, and feeling Cheryl’s joy and pain. It’s the inspiring story of a racing pioneer and a tragic tale of the pressures that are often hidden from public view until it’s too late.

Hard cover, 240 pages.

Surviving to Drive:
A Year Inside Formula 1

by Guenther Steiner

Haas team principal Guenther Steiner brings readers inside his Formula 1 team for the entirety of the 2022 season, giving an unobstructed view of what really takes place behind the scenes.

Through this unique lens, Steiner guides readers on the thrilling rollercoaster of life at the heart of high-stakes motor racing. Packed full of twists and turns, from pre-season preparations to hiring and firing drivers, from the design, launch, and testing of a car to the race calendar itself,

Surviving to Drive is the first time that an Formula 1 team has allowed an acting team principal to tell the full story of a whole season. Uncompromising and searingly honest, told in Steiner's inimitable style, this is a fascinating and hugely entertaining account of the realities of running a Formula 1 team.

Hard cover, 304 pages.

Drag Racing’s Rebels:
How the AHRA Changed Quarter-Mile Competition

by Doug Boyce
foreword by Don Garlits

When the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) was formed in 1951 by Wally Parks, the reasoning for the formation was to “create order from chaos” by instituting safety rules and performance standards that helped legitimize the sport of drag racing. Some organization was certainly necessary. A postwar boom in automotive enthusiasm was reaching new heights, and Hot Rod magazine and the NHRA were right in the thick of it.

The NHRA hosted its first drag racing event in 1953, and in 1955, the organization staged its first national event, which was simply called “The Nationals.” The AHRA formed in 1956 as an alternative to the NHRA, where the drivers voted on the rules (rather than sanctioning bodies and tracks), and their influence on the sport was felt almost immediately.

When the NHRA denied the use of nitromethane in 1957, the AHRA approved it. When the NHRA banned aircraft-pow­ered dragsters in 1961, the AHRA welcomed them. When the NHRA said no to the emerging Funny Car in 1965, the AHRA said yes. When fans and racers screamed for a heads-up Super Stock category in 1968, the AHRA delivered. The AHRA was called a rebel association. Some say that it was more of an association that got things done—to the delight of fans and racers. The AHRA was on equal ground with the NHRA by the 1970s, drawing enormous crowds and racer entries.

In this fascinating history, veteran author Doug Boyce tells the story of the AHRA: the rise, the competition, the events, and the eventual downfall of the organization. After AHRA President Jim Tice passed away in 1982, internal fighting for control of the association resulted in its doom. Get the whole story here, and add this wonderful volume to your drag racing library. 

Soft cover, 192 pages, 437 B&W and color photos. 

ED PINK: THE OLD MASTER

The Remarkable Life and Times of Racing’s Most Versatile Engine Builder

by Ed Pink with Bones Bourcier

Ed Pink’s gift for designing and building engines made him a motorsports icon. His handiwork has powered, among others, drag-racing superstars Don Prudhomme and Tom McEwen, Indy Car legends Al Unser and Tom Sneva, sports car heroes Bob Wollek and Brian Redman, and USAC champions Tony Stewart and Kasey Kahne.

But this is not a technical book. Pink began his long-awaited autobiography with one goal: that it would be more about people than engines.

Mission accomplished, yet again, for auto racing’s Old Master.

Hard cover, 276 pp, 253 color and B&W photos. 

Roland "The Hawaiian" Leong
Drag Racing's Iconic Owner & Tuner

by Lou Hart

Foreword by Don Prudhomme

From racing the family Oldsmobile in 1960 to winning the Winternationals in 1964, read about the meteoric rise of drag racing’s greatest owner and tuner in the first-ever book about "The Hawaiian" Roland Leong. 

Soft cover, 176 pp., 311 color/B&W photos.

THE LAST COWBOY
The Life and Times of Billy Pauch

by Buffy Swanson

foreword by Ray Evernham

As calculating as a rattlesnake, Billy the Kid rarely lets down his guard. And while he never really learned how to sugar up to a potential sponsor, he sure could sweet-talk a race car.

 He’s won hundreds of races at dozens of tracks dotting seven states, in Modifieds, Sprints – winged and wingless – on dirt and asphalt. And he did it his way. Racing where and when he pleased, answering to no one. Taking down victories with bravado and deadly aim.

This is the Billy Pauch you never met… the highs and the lows, the attitude, the anger, the injuries. Why he’s so successful and why he refused to conform. How he did it, why he did it, and who he really is. This is the last cowboy.

Soft cover, 278 pp., 253 photos.

Racers in the Sun, Volume One:
The Story of Florida's Sprint Car Legends

by Richard Golardi

This book is a collective biography, with 13 individual biographies and the story of one iconic Florida race track. It covers both pavement sprint car racing and the historic Little 500, through the stories of some of the famed drivers in those arenas.

Two authorized biographies of National Sprint Car Hall of Fame inductees are included for Pete Folse and Frank Riddle.

There are six biographies of Little 500 Hall of Fame inductees: Wayne Reutimann, Dave Scarborough, Robert Smith, Jack Nowling, George Rudolph, and Frank Riddle. Additional biographies for Ralph Liguori, Johnny Hicks, Pancho Alvarez, Cush Revette, Larry Brazil, and Dick Byerly are included.

Tampa's auto racing history is told through the life story of Tampa racing legend Johnny Hicks and the other subjects, with the story of Golden Gate Speedway added to increase the excitement level of the rip-roaring, pedal-to-the-floor, all-out NASCAR, Indy car, and sprint car racing stories that are told by award-winning journalist and author Richard Golardi, who interviewed 92 people and gathered more than 95 hours of recorded interviews and spent five years writing the book. 

Soft cover, 569 pages, B&W photos.

Vintage Speed Parts: The Equipment That Fueled the Industry

by Tony Thacker

When most people think of speed parts, they rewind a few decades and think back to the Ford flatheads that were so prevalent in the 1940s and 1950s. However, the speed-parts industry actually began way back in the Model T era. As soon as vehicles were mass produced, manufac­turers were looking for ways to make them faster. Manufac­turers, such as Roof, Rajo, Winfield, Miller, Frontenac, and Holley, made speed parts for 4-cylinder Model T engines and accomplished speeds of up to 100 mph!

In Vintage Speed Parts: The Equipment That Fueled the Industry, veteran hot rod historian Tony Thacker looks at the history of hot rodding through the eyes of speed-equipment manufacturers. Covered chronologically, the book begins with the early 4-cylinder engines. In 1932, Henry Ford introduced the flathead V-8, which was slow to be adopted as the engine of choice in racing until the parts industry caught up. Once it did, the flathead, although interrupted by the war, was the engine to run until the automobile manufacturers introduced overhead-valve V-8 engines in the late 1940s.

Chrysler’s early-1950s Hemi and Chevrolet’s small-block V-8 in 1955 spelled the end for the flattie. Both mills dominated well into the 1970s, and the speed industry was there to support all platforms in spades. During that period, every auto manufacturer made a V-8 worthy of modification, and the speed industry boomed. Eventually, the speed-equipment manufacturers grew to the point of becoming corporate entities, as mergers and acquisi­tions became the much less interesting story.

Parts covered include special cylinder heads, magnetos, camshaft and valvetrain upgrades, downdraft carburetors, headers, multiple-carburetor setups, and even superchargers. Everyone figured out how to make engines more powerful, upgrading with the type of parts that were being produced decades later, even to today. Join in the fun of reviewing the history of speed through this tale of vintage speed parts. 

Soft cover, 192 pages, 455 B&W & color photos.

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.

The Newport Nightmare:
Living the Dream

by Jimmy Owens
with Dave Argabright

Jimmy Owens rose from humble beginnings to become one of the most accomplished and respected racing drivers of his generation. After a stellar tenure in open-wheel Modified competition, Owens embarked on a sensational career in dirt late model racing and ultimately became a four-time national champion. This is the inside story of a great racer, and an intimate glimpse of his triumphs and tears.

In his memoir, Owens pulls back the curtain to share the highs and lows of his eventful career, providing readers with a rare behind-the-scenes look at a racing life and beyond. Along the way you'll experience the events and places that led Owens to become one of the most beloved racers in dirt late model competition.

This is a story of living the dream. And more. 

Hard cover, 280 pages, 116 color & B&W photos.

Hemi Under Glass: Bob Riggle and
His Wheel-Standing Mopars

by Mark Fletcher and
Richard Truesdell

While the established stock and modified brackets are long-recognized as the heart and soul of drag racing, it was the wheel-standers that more often than not put butts in the bleachers. In that category, some of the most well-known names included Bill "Maverick" Golden's Little Red Wagon, Bill Shrewsberry's L.A. Dart and Chuck Poole’s Chuck Wagon. Most memorable of all was the Hurst Hemi Under Glass Plymouth Barracuda campaigned by Bob Riggle.

Riggle started his career in the early 1960s as a car builder and mechanic for Hurst-Campbell and eventually rose to pilot the Hemi Under Glass. When he left Hurst in 1969, the Hemi Under Glass franchise transferred with Riggle. He continued for six more years as the owner/driver of a succession of Hemi Under Glass renditions. In the 1990s he resurrected the concept of the original car―making four different versions (1966, 1967, 1968, and 1969)―and continued to thrill drag racing fans with his wheel-standing antics.

This is Bob Riggle’s story. Mark Fletcher and Richard Truesdell, co-authors of the 2012 book Hurst Equipped, say the story was easy to tell―given their unprecedented access not only to Bob but also to his vast archive of photos that reflect his ongoing popularity. Many of the photos in this book are seen in print for the very first time.

Soft cover, 176 pages, full of color and B&W photos.

MOPAR FACTORY DRAG CARS:
Dodge & Plymouth's Quarter-Mile
Domination 1962–1972

by Steve Holmes

Stock-based drag racing throughout the 1960s demanded that the cars competing on the track be genuine production models and that they could be purchased by anyone. The strict regulations dictated total commitment from the manufacturers if they were to be successful. No one was more committed than Chrysler. Chrysler attacked Stock (Super Stock) drag racing in the 1960s with the same fervor as it did the NASCAR Grand National, which itself spawned the reintroduction of the Hemi engine. Its engineers designed and produced a new factory Super Stock turnkey race car most years throughout the decade and enjoyed absolute success on the track, forever cementing its legendary performance status.

The introduction of Pro Stock in 1970 brought with it exciting heads-up racing with the expectation of producing multiple winners from a variety of brands. Instead, it resulted in total Mopar supremacy, as Hemi-powered Chrysler cars won 12 of the 15 national races throughout the first two years, prompting the NHRA to introduce weight breaks to scupper the Chrysler domination. The new 1972 regulations favored small-block-powered compact cars and were the first major step toward Pro Stock spiraling away from its roots and into the tube-frame silhouette formula seen today.

Racing historian Steve Holmes delves into this fascinating period, capturing the careers of the Ramchargers, Melrose Missile, Bud Faubel, Dick Landy, Sox & Martin, Herb McCandless, Don Grotheer, Motown Missile, and countless others, providing a blow-by-blow account of Chrysler’s factory drag car programs and the incredible cars it produced to trounce its rivals during the most epic era in Stock drag racing history.

Soft cover, 176 pages, 304 color & 102 B &W photos. S-1740 $36.95

MATCH RACE MAYHEM
Drag Racing's Grudges, Rivalries, and Big-Money Showdowns

by Doug Boyce

The history of match racing through the cars, the drivers, the events, the classes, the rivalries, and everything else that was fun about match racing during the golden era.

It’s all here, complemented by wonderful vintage photography provided by fans and professionals in attendance.

Soft cover, 176 pp., 297 B&W and color photos.

DON’T MENTION RACING 
Unless You Have An Hour To Spare
(100 Stories, 60 Years, 1 Driver)

by Roger Allan French

Exceptional storytellers know how to grab readers and ensure they want to hear the rest of the story. Roger French not only shares 100 of his best stories about his racing career, but also sheds light on what he experienced along the way: laugh-out-loud moments along with sobering tales of near-misses for French and his competitors.

From his earliest days in rough-and-tough stock cars, then on to SCCA Formula Vee racing, GT3, go-karts and more, he raced from New England to Europe and back.

Even longtime racers and fans will learn about racing as only an insider, a former chief instructor, flagger and rescue marshal can share. 

Soft cover, 300 pages.

BUTCH "THE CALIFORNIA FLASH" LEAL

by Bob McClurg

Check out the first ever biography on the popular drag racer, Butch “The California Flash” Leal.

Born and raised in central California, Larry “Butch” Leal was obsessed with cars from a very early age. What began with field cars turned into hard work and new Chevrolets. This took place when the golden era of drag racing was in its infancy, and Leal joined with enthusiasm. He performed well at the track with his early Chevys and had an impressive number of wins before he was out of high school. His success brought him plenty of attention and collaboration with other big names in the sport.

In 1963, GM pulled out of drag racing on an official basis. As a result, Butch (at age 19) teamed up with Mickey Thompson and joined the Ford camp, securing a ride with the factory team and its new Thunderbolts for 1964. After his success that season, including winning the Super Stock (S/S) class at the 1964 NHRA US Nationals in Indianapolis, Chrysler came calling, and Butch signed on to race the new altered-wheelbase cars in match races for 1965, as the NHRA did not have a class for these new “funny” looking cars. While Leal dabbled again with Ford and Chevrolet later, his relationship with Chrysler lasted well into the following decades, running both Funny Cars and Super Stockers.

Penned by talented automotive historian Bob McClurg, who was there for it all, and featuring full collaboration with the book’s subject, Butch “The California Flash” Leal covers the span of his fascinating career during arguably the most interesting era in drag racing history.

Butch was an 11-time NHRA champion and 4-time recipient of Car Craft magazine’s All-Star Driver of the Year award in a career that spanned the 1960s through the 1990s.

It’s all here: the events, great vintage photography, and the stories from one of the best storytellers the NHRA has ever known.  

Soft cover, 160 pages, 275 color/B&W photos.

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.

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. 

CARIBBEAN CAPERS: The Cuban Grand Prix Races of 1957, 1958, and 1960

by Joel E. Finn  (2010)

THE FIFTY GREATEST DRIVERS OF
STAFFORD MOTOR SPEEDWAY 
 

by Phil Smith

From its dirt beginnings to its lightning-fast asphalt, by the 1980s Connecticut’s Stafford Motor Speedway had become the epicenter of NASCAR Modified racing in the Northeast.

The Arute family, which has owned and guided the destiny of the facility for the past 50-plus years, commissioned their 1000s of loyal fans to name their favorite drivers.

The result is this book of photos and biographies of the “Fifty Greatest Drivers,” listed in alphabetical order from Tommy Baldwin to Satch Worley, and compiled by motorsports journalist Phil Smith.  

Soft cover, 166 pages.

BONNEVILLE'S WOMEN OF
LAND SPEED RACING

by Louise Ann Noeth

At Bonneville, record holders must first earn the right to present themselves on the starting line. This requires passing rigorous safety and technical checks for driver, rider, and speed machine. Gender is inconsequential.

Through the years, more than 200 women have made the cut and donned fireproof clothing and helmets. Dozens have set land speed records—35 in excess of 200 miles per hour, six above 300 miles per hour, and one deaf female racer who roared past 500 miles per hour. Equally impressive are the women who helped propel the helmeted ones into glory. Few know how many women are skilled fabricators, mechanics, crew chiefs, and all-round land speed racing experts, all working out on a brutal, merciless, and barren sodium-soaked playa. Without question, land speed racing has more women actively participating and setting records than any other segment of motorsports in the world. 

Author “LandSpeed” Louise Ann Noeth raced jet dragsters, helped capture the 458mph world wheel-driven record, and guided the Breedlove and Fossett teams. Here she has collected images of some of the notable women in her sport.

Soft Cover, 96 pp., 149 color/B&W images.

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

Shirley Shahan: The Drag-On Lady

by Patrick Foster

Meet drag racing legend and pioneer Shirley Shahan, the Drag-On Lady!  As the first woman to win an NHRA national event when she was named Top Stock Eliminator at the 1966 Winternationals, Shahan blazed a trail for women in drag racing. During the golden era of drag racing, it was rare to find diversity in the sport. Shahan is what’s commonly known as a living legend.

In a career that spanned the 1950s and into the early 1970s, Shahan drove 1956 and 1958 Chevys and was one of the lucky few who was able to purchase one of the rare 1963 Chevrolet RPO Z11 Super Stockers. Later, when she was driving for Plymouth and Dodge, Shahan made the name Drag-On Lady both famous and feared. She then moved to American Motors and raced very successfully with the new SS/AMX.

From 1958 to 1972, Shahan set records and won numerous awards. She was inducted into the International Drag Racing Hall of Fame, Super Stock Magazine Hall of Fame, and Mopar Hall of Fame, and she was honored with a lifetime achievement award at the Bakersfield racetrack. In addition, Shirley won the Top Stock category at the very first March Meet at the legendary Famoso Raceway track near Bakersfield, California, which made her the first person (male or female) to do so. In 1966, she was the named one of Hot Rod magazine’s Top 10 Drivers.

She raced against the best drivers during the golden age of drag racing and more often than not blew off the doors of her opponents. She had a fierce passion for winning, and in this book, you’ll feel what it was like to be behind the wheel as she steers you through her illustrious career.

Soft cover, 175 pages, heavily illustrated with B&W and color photos.

5-10-32: McBride - Parker - Anvelink

by Joe Verdegan

Author Joe Verdegan tells the stories of three of the best wheelmen to emerge from the northeastern Wisconsin dirt-track scene. M.J. McBride. Pete Parker. Terry Anvelink. A trio of late model drivers with three distinct personalities.

These three dominated action at Shawano Speedway from 1980-2000, winning all but two track titles. The three scooped up hundreds of feature wins and multiple track championships along the way.

 Verdegan interviews nearly 100 drivers and former car owners who raced against these three legends - and even beat them on occasion.

S-1707 Soft cover, 160 pp.

THE SOUL OF A MODIFIED:
Lenny Boehler’s Ole Blue

by Lew Boyd

Operating out of an old farm near Cape Cod, Lenny Boehler, an understated personality with overstated aptitude and a twinkle in his eye, seemed to communicate with his race car as effectively as with people. And curiously, "Ole Blue" seemed to respond. Together they motored a million miles on a treacherous road, compiling hundreds of victories at speedways up and down the East Coast over four decades. And, though surviving on massively less resource than their competition, they consistently returned with championship laurels.

When Lenny died, he never left. His presence still envelopes the garage and chicken coop where Ole Blue has been housed for the last 65 seasons. Now a senior citizen itself, Ole Blue, still run by Lenny’s family and crew, is one of the most enduring and beloved sights in all of motorsports. 

Soft cover, 216 pages, 200 B&W and color photos.

SAM’S SCRAPBOOK
My Motorsports Memories

by Sam Posey with John Posey

Sam Posey raced a huge variety of sports cars, saloons and open-wheel machines in numerous racing arenas - Can-Am, USRRC, Trans-Am, IMSA, Indy, NASCAR, Formula 5000 and Formula 1 - against rivals and friends such as George Follmer, Parnelli Jones, Mark Donohue, Peter Revson, Dan Gurney, David Hobbs and Brian Redman.

Sam’s Scrapbook gives a first-hand account of a romantic era in racing, through pictures no one has seen and stories no one has heard. Running alongside the images, Posey's commentary is fascinating and thoughtful, and in turns both amusing and emotional.

This is an unusual and engaging memoir by one of America’s best-loved racing heroes and will appeal to all motorsports enthusiasts.

Hard cover, 160 pp. 250 B&W photos.