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National Speedway
Directory 2008

The History of
America's Speedways,
Past & Present

Lost Race Tracks

Dirt Track Auto Racing:
1919-1941,
A Pictorial History

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Price: $10.00
 

National Speedway Directory 2008

By Allan & Nancy Brown

The popular pocket-sized 528-page book lists over 1,400 auto racing facilities located in the U.S. and Canada and is one of the handiest tools in auto racing. The information includes phone numbers, web pages, nights of operation, etc. for oval tracks, drag strips and road courses.

Authors Allan & Nancy Brown have produced the definitive directory of race tracks since 1975.
















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Price: $35.00
 

The History of America's Speedways,
Past & Present


By Allan Brown

This 850 page, library quality book lists over 8,000 racing facilities that have existed since the first automobile. Besides data on active and defunct tracks from the famous to the obscure, there is information about various names, track sizes, surfaces and the years the tracks operated.

There are over 700 photos spread out through out the book, which covers dirt, paved, and wood tracks along with road courses and drag racing facilities. This is a fabulous resource for any serious racing enthusiast.









 

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Price: $29.95
 

Lost Race Tracks

By Gordon Eliot White

The stories of more than 100 Twentieth Century race tracks that once held the exciting races of yesteryear. The Board tracks, the concrete speedways, the dirt bullrings, the beach course at Daytona, the Vanderbilt Cup courses-the asphalt ovals where midgets ran at mid-century that are now dark and silent. Photos, maps and descriptions of these long ago race tracks, some that we remember, some that existed only briefly, some that disappeared only yesteryear.

Gordon Eliot White has also authored the books, Kurtis-Kraft, Masterworks of Speed and Style, Offenhauser, The Ledendary American Racing Engine and the Men Who Built It, and The Indianapolis Racing Cars of Frank Kurtis, 1940-1936.

Soft cover, 128 pages, 10 1/4" by 8 1/2"
Black & white photos

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Price: $39.95
 

Dirt Track Auto Racing:
1919-1941, A Pictorial History

by Don Radbruch

Prior to World War I, auto racing featured expensive machines and teams financed by auto factories. The teams toured the country, and most of the races were held in large cities, so the vast majority of Americans never saw a race.

All this changed after World War I, though, and in the 1920s and 1930s there were approximately 1,000 dirt tracks in the United States and Canada. The dirt tracks offered small-time racing—little prize money and minimal publicity—but people loved it.

This pictorial history documents dirt track racing, with what is today called sprint cars, around the United States from 1919 to 1941. Information on dirt track racing in Canada during this time is also provided. Regionally divided chapters detail the drivers, tracks, and specific races of each area of the country.

Tracks included well known facilities as well as out-of-the-way sites few people had ever heard of.
Softcover, 7” x 10”, 330 pages,
605 photographs