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Located in
Newburyport, Massachusetts, Coastal 181 opened
for business in 2001 and is dedicated to
offering racing books, DVDs, and artwork to the
racing community.
We have been involved in motorsports since the
early sixties when we fielded our first #181
race car. (See some photos of the 181 and
friends below.) We have now become, we believe,
the biggest book retailer in oval track racing.
We cover open wheel, NASCAR, and short track
competition at a regional level. We have also
written and published the titles listed below.
We are actively looking for good manuscripts to
include in our listings. We are especially
interested in titles that preserve the history
of the great sport of auto racing.
Please give us a call at 877-907-8181 toll
free during business hours if you have any
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Ed Otto
– NASCAR’s Silent Partner
By Edgar Otto and Joann Biondi
Inside Herman's World - The Kenny
Wallace Story
by
Kenny Wallace with Joyce Standridge
South
Boston Speedway: The FIRST 50 Years
Steady Eddie!
Memories of Ed Flemke
Racing's Fastest Professor
Edited by
Bones Bourcier
Where Stars Are Born
Celebrating 25 Years of
NASCAR Weekly Racing
by
Paul Schaefer
Paved
Track Dirt Track
by
Lew Boyd
Daredevils of the Frontier
by
Keith S. Herbst
Gotta Race!
by
Ken Schrader with Joyce Standridge
Life Wide Open
Dave Dion: No Holds Barred
by Dave Dion with Dave Moody
RICHIE!
The Fast Life and Times of NASCAR's
Greatest Modified Driver
By Bones Bourcier
Hot
Cars, Cool Drivers
By Lew Boyd
Bugsy! The Life
and Times of Bugs Stevens
by Bones Bourcier
Fonda! An
Illustrated and Documented History
of the Legendary Fonda Speedway
by Andy Fusco, Lew
Boyd, Jim Rigney
Martin and TJ's
Race Car Repair
(for children 4-8)
by Susan Kelly Hearn
They Called Me "The
Shoe"
by Lew Boyd
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Books on Short Track Drivers HERE |
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Email Lew at
lewboyd@coastal181.com
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Rick Standridge goes for a spectacular win, way upstairs, last lap
at Belle-Claire Speedway in
Illinois on April 20. Rick is an
extraordinarily talented driver with an open-wheel trailer but a
hauler full of victories in both late models and sprinters. His
wife Joyce is an Editor-at-Large
and columnist with Speedway Illustrated. She is also a
favorite author with Coastal 181. She is currently working on Coastal
181's WIN IT OR WEAR IT, a major book on the color
and characters of sprint car
racing -
MORE
INFO HERE. It will be available late this fall. (Todd
Nieman photo) |

It
would be inappropriate to call this a Coastal car. However, it was
the inspiration for the tradition of blue and yellow #181s that has
now continued for 50 years.
Walter “Pepper” Eastman was a dirt driver from
Madison, New York.
Though not a huge winner, he was unusually popular with his series
of 181 Sportsman coupes. Typically huge blue flames would fire from
his exhaust collector as he lifted for turns on the dusty
Empire State
half-miles. The high point in his
career was in 1957 when he took the
Monroe
County championship. The
victory had its macabre side, however. Actually, burly Don
Hendenberg had emerged first in points, but, when he died in a
highway accident, the title was awarded to Pepper, the runner-up.
In the sixties Pepper did some ride-hopping and drove Bob
Zimmerman’s #72. On August 14, 1965, Pepper was running the consi at
Fonda and he brushed the graveyard turn wall. The flip that
followed was fatal.
(John Grady photo) |
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This is an IMCA modified that was driven by long-time New York racer
Danny Wood. The car has had its ups and downs. Danny was fast in it,
until one tumultuous night in 2006 at Fonda. Fonda has its way of
finishing off race cars, but this one had something in reserve.
Danny sold it at the Lebanon Valley flea market to Adam Pierson, the
youngest of a great Vermont racing family. Adam wheeled it to the
2007 IMCA Championship at Bear Ridge Speedway. |
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This is our Coastal 181 open competition modified. She is a good old
girl – a lightened up, winged, 1991 Champ Car. We call her Jean.
We brought her out for Charlie Elliott’s “Last Hurrah” race at
Canaan (NH) Speedway last August. Danny Douville drove it for us and
he started in the back row next to “Roarin’” Randy Howe in the #82.
The two of them blasted through the field to the front and had quite
the spirited battle.
In this photo, Danny was just taking the lead, and things were
looking pretty good for the Coastal team. On the next lap, however,
the fence jumped out right out in front of us.
Oh well. |
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Karl
Fredrickson, Editor of Speedway Illustrated magazine, has a great
family, a great writing style, and a great sense of humor. He is
also a winning short track driver. Most of his driving has been on
asphalt and he has won in all manner of pavement pounders, including
this modified. Just to keep him honest, a few seasons ago we at
Coastal 181 loaned him a car to run on dirt for a year. He learned
well. When he went to Boone to cover the Nationals for the magazine
in 2005. He got himself a ride and won the Sport Mod feature. |
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This #181
is a TEO modified racing at the infamous Bear Ridge Speedway in
Vermont. The driver is Blake Shepard, who by day is a Vice President
of Fidelity Investments in Boston. On the weekends another side of
Blake’s personality comes alive. We call him “Sideways” Shepard. You
can see why. |

That’s
Jim Rigney in September of 1950, standing next to his family’s
Pontiac at the old Naples Speedway in upstate New York. Jim became a
major open wheel enthusiast and had a stellar career in publishing
in Boston. He has been a major player in Coastal 181 since its
start. He co-authored the FONDA book and has done the design portion
of most all of Coastal 181’s titles. |
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Rick Standridge, an outstanding veteran dirt late model racer, cops
one this summer at Belle-Claire Speedway, an intense, high-banked
fifth-mile dirt oval in Belleville, Illinois. Rick’s wife Joyce is a
nationally known racing journalist who wrote both GOTTA RACE! with
Ken Schrader and INSIDE HERMAN’S WORLD with Kenny Wallace for
Coastal 181. Further titles will be forthcoming. Photo credit to
Billy Haffer. |
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Danny Douville is a winning modified shoe from Tilton, NH. He has
well over 100 feature wins, dirt and asphalt. In special recognition
of a great season a year or two back, his buddies teamed up with
Coastal 181 to send Danny to the Chili Bowl in Tulsa. Danny looked
really good and, amazingly, almost made it into the show. One thing
is for sure – the folks in New England are still talking about it.
Photo credit to Otto Graham. |

Here’s one of Coastal 181’s house cars at the Vintage Day at New
Hampshire International Speedway. The car was built in 1980, one of
the very first off Dave Lape’s “Champ Car” assembly line. It ran
dirt tracks all over the Northeast, piloted by Tim Clemons, John
Bellinger, Karl Fredrickson, and Finch Fenton. Photo credit to R.
Roberts. |
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