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S-1180
Price: $19.95
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THE ART OF DRAG
RACING
by John
Jodauga, with Melissa Pasillas
During
the 1970s and 1980s, John Jodauga was perhaps drag racing’s most
published illustrator. Not only did his work appear in the National
DRAGSTER, Hot Rod, Car Craft, Motor Trend, Drag Racing, and Super
Stock & Drag Illustrated, but he also did promotional art for the
sport’s biggest stars such as Bill Jenkins, Don Prudhomme, Raymond
Beadle, Bob Glidden, Don Nicholson and others; commercial artwork
for many aftermarket manufacturers such as Moroso Performance
Products; and program covers for such major racetracks as Ontario
Motor Speedway.
During
this same period, he performed the bulk of the marketing artwork for
the National Hot Rod Association, ranging from posters and program
covers to holiday cards.
This book is the first official
compilation of Jodauga’s work performed over a period of 45 years,
and contains over 60 full-page, full-color reproductions of his
illustrations and paintings that include examples of his most recent
efforts.
Anecdotes, background information,
and an early career retrospective that reflect Jodauga’s approach to
painting are also provided, along with a foreword by longtime NHRA
announcer and drag racing historian Bob Frey.
86 pages, full color.
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S-746
Price: $29.95
WHILE THEY LAST!
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COOL CARS SQUARE ROLL BARS
edited by Bernie Shuman
This classic
book, just reprinted, is the authoritative history of hot rodding in
New England in the fifties.
It is chock full of old time coupes, roadsters, and dragsters.
Any early race fan will appreciate the timeless beauty of these
early cars, whether they were built to race straight or on ovals.
Hundreds of photos.
The real thing.
Soft cover 239
pages black and white photography
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S-1157
Price: $65.00
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OLD SCHOOL
HOT ROD PROJECTS
by Walt Scadden
This
book was created to be a sequel to the Vintage Hot Rod Metal book,
which found a large audience. It
is for
those interested in traditional Hot Rods and Custom Cars.
These projects were originally done in the
’40s,
’50s and early ’60s, all in an age when if you wanted these types of
parts, you had to make them
yourself or know someone who could make them for you. In the
re-birth of traditional Rods, some of the
old-school techniques have been done somewhat differently from the
originals. This book makes every
effort
to stay true to the real deal.
None of
these projects is difficult, just require practice and patience.
Using these methods will create an old school look to your ride. Use
your own imagination to adapt them to your plan and equipment. There
are many variations to all these projects. Individuality has always
been the cornerstone of great Hot Rods.
B&W
white photos, 58 pages, louvered metal cover.
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S-1079
Price: $65.00
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VINTAGE HOT ROD METAL WORK
by Walt Scadden
Bonneville racer/hot rodder/faculty member of Rhode Island
School of Design, Walt Scadden, has produced one of the coolest,
most unusual books we have ever carried. Certainly, it is the only
book in our inventory with a metal cover with rivets and louvers!
Scadden presents photographs and written description of “old
school” methods, techniques, and tips for the English Wheel,
louver-making, lead body work, top chopping, etc.
This is
the perfect gift for that gearhead who longs for a return to the
golden days of the American automobile, when so much was artistry
and performed by hand in the garage out back, rather than on a
drafting board and a bank of CNC machines. Each is one of a kind.
Very hard cover, 58 pages, black and white photography.
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S-1160
Price: $24.95
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STREET SLEEPERS: The Art of the
Deceptively Fast Car
by Tommy Lee Byrd
Street
racing is now regarded as a highly illicit and dangerous activity,
but for as long as there have been cars, there’s been racing, and a
lot of acceleration contests took place on public roads. Beginning
in the 1950s it became popular for some enterprising street racers
to disguise the true potential hidden within their cars. Taken to
its extreme, a very fast car could appear completely unmodified.
Such cars were called ‘Sleepers.’
The art of building a successful
sleeper has varied over the decades as styles and times have
changed. One constant is that the car’s appearance belies its
performance potential. In Street Sleepers, the secrets are
exposed and the owners and builders of some of America’s quickest
street machines share their art. Outstanding photography and
in-depth owner interviews tell the tale. Street Sleepers is
lined with true stories of real cars that live up to the grand hot
rodder’s tradition of deceptively fast cars.
Soft cover, 144
pages, 321 color photos.
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S-1156
Price: $24.95
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How To Build Period-Correct
Hot Rods
by Gerry Burger
Vintage, retro, or classic hot rods have been an enduring element of
the hot rod hobby. These vintage roadsters, sedans, and coups have
become very popular because they are the bedrock of the hot rodding
culture. Many rodders have built a rod dedicated to a particular
decade, era, region, flavor or style, but often these have lacked
all the period correct details, and it's crucial to get all the
details (i.e., parts) right. If the package does not faithfully
replicate a particular style or era, the theme of the hot rod can be
ruined.
Hot rod
veteran Gerry Burger explains how to identify, buy, or build the
parts to create a faithful period-correct hot rod…a car that you
will be proud of and will gain the respect from others in the hobby.
The book showcases all the parts that make an authentic hot rod of a
certain era or flavor, including ’50s and ’60s styles, both East
Coast and West Coast. It details the wide range of stock parts and
popular high-performance parts from a particular era. Burger
discusses when the parts were first produced and when they were in popular use. He describes
the way to choose the period-correct engine for your chassis, valve
covers, intakes, and carbs that match the era from Edelbrock,
Offenhauser, and others. Other chapters cover interiors, wheels and
tires, frames, suspension, and other components.
When it
comes to putting together all the pieces to create an attractive,
accurate, and fun hot rod from the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s, How to
Build Period Correct Hot Rods is a great guide.
Soft
cover, 144 pages, 350 color photos.
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S-1155
Price: $29.95
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RUSTED MUSCLE:
A Collection of Derelict Dream Machines
by Steve Magnante
Seeing vintage muscle cars languishing in junkyards
never fails to generate an emotional response among those who lived
through the era. In Rusted Muscle, noted author Steve
Magnante takes us on a tour across the country, sharing memorable
imagery he has collected over years of travel. The author also
shares important information about the cars he describes, such as
production numbers regarding a particular year, make and model, or
de-coding the vehicle's VIN number or data plate to discover how it
was equipped when new. In some cases, the cars pictured are quite
rare, whereas others are more familiar.
While other books have
shared junkyard photography in the past, none have been focused
purely on domestic muscle cars, and none has included the level of
information acquired about the subject cars like Rusted Muscle.
Considering the immense popularity of muscle cars today, seeing a
collection of well-researched derelict examples like this assures
enthusiasts that plenty of entry-level fodder still exists. It
encourages the reader to search for buried treasure, and pursue
their own muscle car dreams.
Soft cover, 176 pages, 420
color photos.
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S-996
Price: $19.95
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John Force: the Straight Story of Drag Racing’s 300-mph Superstar
by Erik Arneson
Revised and Updated edition (April 2009)
The paperback re-release of this popular book about a drag-racing
legend includes updated statistics, photographs, and a section on
the racing career of John Force’s daughter Ashley Force Hood. With
photography by Jon Asher (more than 200 color and B&W photos), the
book recaps Force’s well-documented “rags to riches” story. (Area
Auto Racing News)
The stars of the drag race circuit may be 6,000-horsepower
nitro-burning drags cars, but the 300-miles-per-hour superstar of
the sport is funny car racer John Force. John’s popularity is about
more than his career record. His honest and consistently outrageous
demeanor have endeared him to the fans, made him a favorite with Jay
Leno and FOX’s “The Best Damn Sports Show,” and has led him to be
dubbed the "best interview in sports today."
Force has been the face (and mouth) of drag racing for the past
decade, and he shows no signs of slowing down, on or off the track.
This revised and updated photo biography by veteran race reporter
Erik Arneson covers the rags-to-riches story of Force’s rise from a
penniless racer to a multi-team effort that includes his
high-profile daughter Ashley (the 2004 Driver of the Year and Rookie
of the Year). Force’s is the story of a career built on sheer will
and determination--the tale of a racer who, with unstoppable drive,
guts, and savvy, overcame lousy equipment and little backing to
become the best.
Soft cover, 176
pages, and more than 200 color and B&W photos.
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V-1165
Price: $14.95
CLASSIC 2-Pack
V-1162
Price: $19.95
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Classic
Chrome - DVD
Take a
thrilling tour of incredible classic cars in this 4-DVD collector’s
set presented by Lance Lambert and the “Vintage Vehicle Show.” See
why Packards, Hudsons, Edsels and Corvairs are making a comeback in
Odd Rods & Orphans, and head on over to Drive-In Delights for the
coolest classics. Then, go under the hoods of Rat Rods &
Traditionals before taking a ground-scraping luxury ride in
Lowriders & Bombs.
Run Time: Approximately 4 hours.
A Classic 2-Pack
DVD: From Fast and Furious
to Low and Slow!
8-DVD set includes Classic
Chrome and Stock Cars of the ’50s & ’60s – a terrific value!
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S-1135
Price: $27.95
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"TV" Tommy Ivo: Drag Racing's
Master Showman
by Tom Cotter
with Foreword by Don
Prudhomme
In the
early 1960s, Tommy Ivo had the world in the palm of his hands. Still
a young man, he was already a star of television and film with a
promising Hollywood future ahead of him. Then his producers told him
he had to quit drag racing. He quit the entertainment industry
instead.
This is
the official story of Ivo’s incredible life and racing career.
Readers will follow “TV” Tommy as he becomes the most ambitious drag
racer in the nation, building his own cars in the garage behind his
Burbank home; becoming the first driver to pilot his dragsters to
170, 175, and 180 miles per hour and towing his cars to match races
at small-town drag strips across the United States.
Always
the showman, Ivo pioneered promotional techniques that are today
taken for granted. In this regard especially, his impact on the
sport cannot be understated, and his legacy is detailed in this
incredible bio of one of drag racing’s most irrepressible
characters.
Hard cover, 240 pages, many B&W and color
photos.
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S-1127
Price: $34.95
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Grumpy’s Toys
by Doug Boyce
Few men have impacted the sport of
drag racing like Bill “Grumpy” Jenkins. His storied history at the
drag strip began in the late 1950s, and continues today. Throughout
his career, both innovation and success have followed him closely,
and this book documents the long and colorful history of the
competition cars that proudly bear the name “Grumpy's Toy.”
Grumpy's Toys stands as a full and complete history of Jenkins'
career to date as told through his cars. Author Doug Boyce has
followed Jenkins throughout his racing career and has amassed an
impressive collection of vintage photography that is shared on these
pages. Through his own knowledge, extensive research, and by working
closely with Grumpy himself, Boyce offers readers an unparalleled
look behind the man and his machines. This book is essential for the
true drag racing fan.
Soft Cover, 176 pages, 86 B&W and 218
full color photos.
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PART 1
S-1101
Price: $29.95
PART 2
S-1102
Price: $29.95
BUY BOTH!
S-1103
Price: $45.95
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Don Garlits, Rear Engine
Dragster
Part 1 - Part 2
by Mickey Bryant and Todd
Hutcheson
A journey through 18 months that made drag
racing history and ended with the launch of the rear engine dragster
(R.E.D.). If necessity was the mother of invention then its father
was creativity.
Probably the most talked-about two events in
drag racing history become the bookends of these two books. Part 1
opens with the race at Lions Drag Strip in Long Beach, California,
March 8th, 1970. Part 2 ends with the Indy Nationals, September 7th,
1971. The events of these historic two days are chronicled and
examined in detail, showing what really happened at the sport’s most
famous venues of the day and dispelling rumors and flat-out
misunderstandings about what happened there. These were also the
very first and last race by drag racing’s most revered rear engine
dragster – Don Garlits’ Swamp Rat 14.
Part 1 features the
March 1970 race that put Garlits in the hospital and on the
sideline. That race for him lasted only 40 feet. Part 1 ends right
where the secret build of the new R.E.D. is completed and the
Garlits Boys are packing up to head out West to showcase this new
design. This is a complete and stand-alone account of all that
happened in the year 1970.
Part 2 takes you through the
step-by-step account of this historic machine, Swamp Rat 14, and
ends with the 1971 Indy Nationals and Garlits’ astonishing elapsed
time that has lasted 40 years, and counting.
Part 1: S1101.
Informally published, soft cover, 146 pages, B&W and color photos
and cartoons.
Price: $24.95
Part 2: S1102. Informally
published, soft cover, 146 pages, B&W and color photos and cartoons.
Price: $24.95
S1103. Buy both for $45.95
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S-938
Price: $29.95
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Funny Car
Fever
by Steve Reyes
There wasn’t always a class for these “funny-looking” cars. In the
mid-1960s, many of drag racing’s fastest drivers were outgrowing the
Super Stock and Factory Experimental classes, building cars that
stretched and eventually broke the rules. Promoters discovered they
could pair up these altered-wheelbase, injected, blown machines in
exhibition match races—and the spectators came running. Rivalries
were born, the Funny Car class was created, and the cars kept
getting faster and faster.
Funny Car Fever is a humorous, heart-felt,
first-hand account of the
most exciting and memorable years of the Funny Car class. Steve
Reyes followed these fiberglass-bodied, nitro-burning machines and
their drivers from the years leading into Funny Car class through
its halcyon days. He’s included over 400 of his favorite images and
more than a few never-before-heard stories to bring the feeling of
the class and the era home to you.
Soft cover, 192 pages, 200 color and black & white photos.
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S-1104
Price: $29.95
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Super Stock:
Drag Racing the Family Sedan
by Larry Davis
Now in Soft Cover!
Without a doubt, the most popular classes in drag racing are the
feature cars that the Average Joe has a chance to drive and afford.
In the early and mid-‘60s, this era was especially interesting, as
the cars that people were racing were muscle cars right off the
showroom floor.
Super Stock takes a look at the most popular
class of drag racing – factory Super Stock. It traces the evolution
of the cars, the engines, the rules, the personalities, and many of
the teams, from its beginnings in the mid-1950s through to the 1960s
and the era of the Super Stock 409s, Ramchargers, 421 Pontiacs, and
406 Fords. This was a time when Ford, Chrysler, and General Motors
competed on a weekly basis at local drag strips throughout the
country, and the saying “...win on Sunday, sell on Monday...” had
real significance in the marketplace. This is also the period that
saw emergence of the term “muscle car” and the production of a whole
class of American automobiles – which are now the most sought after
by collectors, restorers, and performance enthusiasts.
This
affordable edition of Super Stock: Drag Racing the Family Sedan is a
paperback release of the original best-selling hardcover edition. It
includes all the same first-person accounts of what drag racing was
really like in the early 1960s, how the manufacturers controlled the
competition and the results of the races, and how the sanctioning
bodies attempted to control the manufacturers, who in turn simply
sidestepped the rules. Appendices include all of the major event
winners and the rules defining the classes as well as information
detailing the engines and chassis competing in Top Stock categories.
Soft cover, 210 pages, 310 color and B&W photos.
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S-1095
Price: $24.95
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Speed Duel: The Inside Story of the Land Speed
Record in the Sixties
by Samuel
Hawley
The quest for the land speed
record in the 1960s and the epic rivalry between two dynamic
American drivers, Art Arfons and Craig Breedlove.
Until the
1950s, the land speed record (LSR) was held by a series of European
gentlemen racers such as British driver John Cobb, who hit 394 miles
per hour in 1947. That record held for more than a decade, until the
car culture swept the U.S.
Hot-rodders
and drag racers built and souped up racers using car engines, piston
aircraft engines and, eventually, jet engines. For this determined
and dedicated group, the LSR was no longer an honor to be held by
rich aristocrats with industrial backing – it was brought stateside.
In the
summer of 1960, the contest moved into overdrive, with eight men
contending for the record on Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats. Some men
died in horrific crashes, others prudently retired, and by
mid-decade only two men were left driving: Art Arfons and Craig
Breedlove. By 1965, Arfons and Breedlove had walked away from some
of the most spectacular wipeouts in motor sport history and pushed
the record up to 400, then 500, then 600 miles per hour. Speed Duel
is the fast-paced history of their rivalry.
Despite the
abundant heart-stopping action, Speed Duel is foremost a human
drama. Says author Samuel Hawley, "It is a quintessential American
tale in the tradition of The Right Stuff, except that it is not
about extraordinary men doing great things in a huge government
program. It's about ordinary men doing extraordinary things in their
back yards."
Soft cover, 360 pages, B&W photos.
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S-1038
Price: $34.95
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Kings of the Quarter-Mile:
Rail-Jobs, Slingshots & Mid-Engine Dragsters
by Lou Hart
When our young heroes began returning from World War II, they
applied the knowledge gained from Uncle Sam towards the fledgling
hot rod movement. While speeds increased, rodders learned the hard
way just how dangerous it was to “drag it out” on the city streets.
In the mid ‘50s, organized drag racing gave hot rodders a safe place
to race. Cars evolved from pre-war coupes and sedans to crude “rail
jobs,” which were stripped and narrowed frame rails with nothing
more than an engine, driveline, seat, and steering gear.
As hot rodders were the true Mothers of Invention, the cars later
became hand-made, finely crafted “Slingshot Dragsters.” Dubbed the
“Kings of the Sport,” these supercharged, fuel-injected Slingshots
burned exotic fuels and captured the attention of every young
enthusiast from coast to coast. The cars dazzled with gleaming
chrome, Candy Apple, Pearlescent, and Metalflake® paint jobs, while
the nitromethane fuel produced an unforgettable thunderous sound.
This new volume contains all the stars that waged war on
quarter-mile strips of asphalt from California to Maine. It’s a
vivid pictorial display that captures the true essence of extreme
acceleration in all its glory.
Soft cover, 160 pages.
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S-1032
Price: $34.95
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Snake vs. Mongoose – How a Rivalry Changed Drag Racing Forever
by Tom Madigan
Don "The Snake" Prudhomme in his Barracuda, Tom "The Mongoose"
McEwen in his Duster. The "Snake vs. Mongoose" racing feud had been
making headlines long before they got their Funny Cars, but it
wasn't until they made a deal with Mattel that drag racing became
the multimillion-dollar business that it is today.
Happily co-opted by Mattel, the rivalry described in Snake vs.
Mongoose was nonetheless real. Author Tom Madigan tells the story
from the beginning, when engine-builder Ed Donovan, with a nod to
The Jungle Book, dubbed his driver "The Mongoose"—the one creature
who could strike faster than a Snake.
The book chronicles the bad press, the toe-to-toe standoffs, and
some of the best races in drag racing history. And within that
story, Madigan captures the transformation of drag racing from the
gritty, gut-driven sport of the ‘60s into the full-fledged
money-making machine of our day.
Hard cover, 160 pages, many black & white and full-color photos.
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S-1030
Price: $39.95
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Merchants of Speed: The Men Who Built America's Performance Industry
by Paul D. Smith
An appreciative look back at the early hot rodders who designed and
manufactured the parts that made hot rodding possible.
Drawing upon hundreds of hours of interviews conducted with the
founding fathers of the sport, Paul Smith tells the stories behind
two dozen speed equipment manufacturers and the go-fast goodies they
designed, developed, and sold.
Illustrated with more than 200 period photos, his book is a truly
fitting celebration of the names that became synonymous with speed.
Coffee table hard cover, 240 pages, black and white photos on glossy
stock.
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S-939
Price: $39.95
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Diggers,
Funnies, Gassers & Altereds - Drag Racing's Golden Era
by Bob McClurg
Foreword by John Force, 12-time NHRA Funny Car season points
champion
In the ’60s, drag racing evolved from a “run what ya brung” grass
roots effort to a full-blown professional motorsport – along the
way, it created some of the most exciting racing and race cars ever
built. And Bob McClurg was there with a camera.
McClurg is an accomplished magazine writer and photographer, but
he’s best known for his drag racing images of the ’60s and ’70s. His
lens captured all the action of the Roadsters, Gassers, Altereds,
Top Fuel, Funny Cars, Pro/Stocks, and even the modern age of
nostalgia drag racing.
Now for the first time, McClurg’s best drag racing photos are
brought together in one volume – a book that every drag racing fan
will have to see. With more than 350 color and black-and-white
photos, this book is an exciting visual history of the sport’s most
exciting years – the Golden Age of drag racing.
Hard cover, 204 pages, 248 color photos and 128 black & white
photos.
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S-901
Price: $50.00
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FUEL AND
GUTS
The Birth of Top Fuel Drag Racing
By Tom Madigan
The front engine Top Fuel dragster and its West Coast drivers
defined the evolution of drag racing in the period through the early
seventies.
This is the story of how Top Fuel started in California, told
through the words of the men and women who lived it.
Covers Flaming Frank Pedregon, Hand Grenade Harry Hibler, Big Daddy
Roth,
Tommy Ivo, and many, many others.
Hard cover, 240 pages, color and b&w photography throughout
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S-903
Price: $34.95
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HOT ROD ROOTS
A Tribute to the Pioneers
Edited by Dean Gingerelli
Its seven chapters, each by a different author, say it all:
World War II and Hot Rodding, Belly Tanks, Track Roadster Racing,
Drag Racing, Spreading the Word, From Out of the East, and Hot Rod
Heritage. Produced by the American Hot Rod Foundation.
Hard Cover, 176 pages, b&w photography throughout
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S-908
Price: $34.95
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SO-CAL SPEED SHOP
The Fast Tale of the California Racers who Made the Hot Rod Industry
By Mark Christensen
Alex Xydias established So-Cal Speed Shop in 1946, the day he got
out of the service. It played a huge role in the transformation of
hot rodding from scruffy underground curiosity into a defining part
of American culture. Key characters include Dean Bachelor, Ray
Brown, Vic Edelbrock, Dick Flint, Ed Iskendarian, Wally Parks,
Barney Navarro and Ed Winfield.
A beautiful book.
Hard cover, 192 pages, lots of b&w photography
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S-732
Price: $40.00
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EDELBROCK: Made in U.S.A.
by Tom Madigan
Here is the story of the company's growth from a simple shop at the
rear of a gas station to an American institution. It is at the heart
of the history of the earliest drag racers and land speed racers, it
is woven into the early days of NASCAR, and it flourishes today in
the cars owned by enthusiasts and ordinary drivers across America
who boast Edelbrock equipment.
It is the story of a company whose influence not only helped shape
automotive performance, but also led the automotive aftermarket
industry in addressing and conforming to the clean air and safety
regulations that have emerged over the past 35 years.
And it is the story of an iconic family business that has preserved
its values and its spirit of independence, creativity, philanthropy,
and fun over three generations.
Hard cover, 324 pages, color and black & white photography.
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