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One of the neatest aspects of
Coastal 181 is that we can work not only with racing’s greatest
writers, but the best photographers, too.
Here are some favorite images from books on our website, some from
titles we published ourselves and some from other publishers we
think have done an outstanding job with their offerings. We’ll keep
them coming. |
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Larry
McReynolds assumes the horizontal mode, illustrating how to “string”
a car. The photo actually shows quite a bit of intensity in
McReynold’s face. It’s clear that he really got into writing his
book How To Become A Winning Crew Chief. He offers “information that
I would have given anything to have had when I was working on
short-track cars, and especially when I first got into Nextel Cup
racing in the early 1980’s.”
From: How To Become A Winning Crew Chief, by Larry McReynolds
with Jeff Huneycutt |
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The
ending of the 1979 Daytona 500 provided one of the most-watched
fisticuff tussles of all times. The incident between the Allison
Brothers and Cale Yarborough was repeated endlessly on television,
and it seemed to symbolize the start of NASCAR’s amazing television
era. This particular still shot shows just how intently the guys
were really involved in their discussion.
From: BOBBY ALLISON – A Racer’s Racer, by Bobby Allison with
Tim Packman |
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Ever
since he climbed into a race car for the first time in 1971, there
has been a colorful streak winding through Kenny Schrader’s racing
career. One of its most obvious moments had to come in 1983 when he
towed into Belle-Clair Speedway towing with a pink Cadillac
“pimpmobile”. Kenny recalls: “We show up in our Hawaiian
shirts…We’re styling and we’re not afraid to tell people we’re
prepared to win. Thank God we did.”
From: GOTTA RACE!, by Ken Schrader and Joyce Standridge |
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David Reutimann’s dad Buzzie (on left) and his
granddad Emil before the start of a 500-lap
race at Eau Gallie (FL)
Speedway
in 1957. They ran 250 laps each.
From
Florida
Motorsports Retrospective by Eddie Roche |
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A 13-year old named Jeff Gordon had just come across the country to
Florida
with his father to race this sprint car. Jeff says he has never
been more terrified in his life, but it took him only two nights to
catch on.
From
Florida
Motorsports Retrospective by Eddie Roche |
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McCreadie Collection
This shot is neat, though pretty grainy. That’s because it was
hanging on the wall in Barefoot Bob McCreadie’s garage. It’s
McCreadie leading Jack Johnson at Cowtown, during a Texas DIRT swing
in 1989. Barefoot had written this on it: “When you think you
drive hard, when you think you’re trying hard, remember this
picture and hope he is not behind you.”
BAREFOOT – The Autobiography of Bob McCreadie, As Told to Andy Fusco |
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NASCAR News Archives
He was a 26-year-old from Portland, Oregon and he gave Larry
Phillips a real tough run for his money in the race for the 1995
NASCAR Dodge Weekly Series national Championship. His name – Greg
Biffle.
WHERE STARS ARE BORN – Celebrating 25 Years of NASCAR Weekly Racing,
by Paul Schaefer |
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Scott Robinson Photo
There aren’t too many characters in NASCAR quite like Ray Evernham.
An impressive figure – tall and commanding, Evernham is also
uncannily intelligent – and a life-long learner. He drove pavement
and dirt-pounding modifieds in his native New Jersey before bounding
onto the Winston Cup scene as alpha dog of the Rainbow Warriors,
that hyper-successful young Dupont gang that launched Jeff Gordon.
Evernham subsequently formed his own team with Dodge and has now
taken on investor George Gillett as a substantial backer. Ray plans
to back away from day-to-day operations and to recast his future.
Look at those eyes. What do you think he is up to next?
FACES OF NASCAR – a Pictorial Salute to America’s Greatest Sport
by
Scott Robinson |
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Walt Imlay Photo
Wyman “Cookie” Osterhout bull-rides his wire-rimmed URC sprinter at
Flemington, NJ, on September 4, 1961. The Voorheesville, NY, hot
shoe was URC’s rookie of the year in 1958. Working busily aboard the
#81 in the background is Jim McGuire, one of the greatest ever out
of Massachusetts. McGuire was well on his way to national stardom
when he severed his right arm at New Bremen, OH, in 1964.
TOW MONEY- The History of the United Racing Club, by Buzz Rose |
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IMS Photo
Certainly
one of the most intense challenges in sports must be a driver
preparing mentally for the start of an Indy 500. Whether you are out
of the dusty midget tracks in the Rockies or from tony European
sports car circuits makes no difference. It comes down to man versus
fate in the most dangerous, lasting competition in motorsports. The
caption on this remarkable image reads “Dan Gurney, an
introspective, incurable romantic and hero to millions, contemplates
a qualifying run.” Runner-up (with a stock-block engine) in 1968 and
1969, it was Dan who paired Colin Chapman with Ford Motor Company in
1962. Retiring as a driver after finishing third in the 1970 “500,”
he was the winning constructor in 1968, 1973, and 1975.
AUTOCOURSE, the Official History of the Indianapolis 500
by Donald
Davidson and Rick Shaffer |
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Nigel Kinrade Photo
Junior is
just plain different. Always has been – always will be. He
completely reordered Junior Nation by his switch to Hendrick
Motorsports for 2008. And right out of the box he was lightning
quick in the green and white #88, riding up there in his different
groove – the one that Kenny Schrader described as “running where
they ain’t.” No question the relentless fan and media attention on
Junior must be beyond difficult. So, too, must be the memories of
that awful day in Daytona in 2001 when he saw his father die.
DALE EARNHARDT JR. – Inside the Rise of a NASCAR Superstar
by Ron Lemasters and Al Pearce |
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IMS Photo
What a
moment. Bill Vukovich had just equaled the glories of Wilbur Shaw
and Mauri Rose. He had won his second Indy in a row on Memorial Day,
1954, starting in 19th slot and whipping a 33-car starting field
comprised entirely of gloriously thundering Offenhausers. It was no
easy feat. Sweltering heat and humidity hung heavily over Indiana
all afternoon, and Vukie shows poignantly the grueling toll of 500
miles at a new record pace of 130.840. The shy son of immigrant
grape-pickers in California had exactly one year to contemplate his
accomplishment. Seeking his third win in 1955, he tangled with Al
Keller and Johnny Boyd and vaulted out of the Brickyard to his
death.
AUTOCOURSE, the Official History of the Indianapolis 500
by Donald
Davidson and Rick Shaffer |
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IMS Photo
Jud
Larsen was one of America’s all time gassers. In this amazing
Tronolone image, strong-armed Larson runs low – unusual, given his
normally sideways, balls-to-the-wall, rim-riding bravado. There was
no pretense whatsoever about him. All grit, when he pulled into
Reading, PA, in June of 1966 for a USAC sprint car race, he was
loaded for bear. He was flat broke and needed the scratch. He was
flat out on the dark side of the cushion when he tagged wheels with
Red Riegel. The ghastly, spiraling double fatal that ensued is
largely considered the reason cages were brought to sprint cars.
THE AMERICAN DIRT TRACK RACER by Joe Scalzo
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Mike Adaskaveg Photo
It’s hard to know just what it is about modified racing that has
always attracted the nut cases. But few would debate that fun-loving
Bugsy Stevens stands high in the character championship. A
three-time NASCAR national modified champion in the sixties, still
today Buggo is unable to walk into a room without attracting a crowd
– and without delivering at least one surprise “goose.” But,
jokester or not, when Bugsy speaks, better listen. In his book BUGSY!,
co-authored with Bones Bourcier, Bugsy devotes a whole chapter to
driving etiquette – what is acceptable and what just plain ain’t.
Here at Coastal 181 we have had requests from promoters literally
from Maine to California to reprint the chapter so they could
distribute it in their pit areas. Go for it, Buggo.
BUGSY! — The Life and Times of Bugs Stevens, three-time NASCAR
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