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S-1175
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Circle of
Impact: The True Life Events of a Brave Action Figure
by Lynn
McCoy Foreword by Parnelli Jones
Author
Lynn McCoy has brought the life story of her open wheel racer/artist
husband Bob McCoy to life in a brilliant new coffee table book.
McCoy has lived more lives than most can even dream.
A hot-rodder out of the San Diego
area in the 1950s, McCoy had an accomplished career as a sprint car
and midget racer, rodeo cowboy, bodyguard, big cat trainer and land
speed racer.
McCoy’s
on-track exploits were so outlandish and audacious that he is one of
only a handful of racers who can lay claim to being banned for life
by USAC while beating up on Mario Andretti and A.J. Foyt at the same
time.
He is
also a well-known and highly regarded artist.
Hard cover, 346 pp, includes drawings
and artwork, B&W and color photos.
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S-1173
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The Illustrated History of
The
Indianapolis 500, 1911-1994
by Jack C. Fox
Just
reprinted, this classic reference book is the largest and most
complete photo and statistical record ever compiled for cars and
drivers of the Indy 500.
There are over 4,000 photos of all
cars that did, and did not qualify for the race. Complete driver
statistics are included up through 1994.
Hard cover, 384
pages.
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S-1146
Price: $24.95
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Victory Road – The Ride of My Life
by Helio
Castroneves
with Foreword by Roger Penske
The
Indianapolis 500 champion and winner of season five's Dancing
with the Stars shares his heartfelt story about determination,
family, justice, and beating all odds to win.
With
his signature victory celebration of climbing the fence after taking
the checkered flag and his radiant performances that earned him the
coveted crystal ball trophy on Dancing with the Stars, Helio's
infectious enthusiasm garnered the admiration of millions of
fans-both on and off the track.
Therefore no one, including
him, could have predicted that one day he would sit in a federal
court along with his sister/manager facing 10 years in jail. After
his grueling trial – where justice prevailed and charges were
dropped – Helio learned more than ever before about his family, true
friends, faith, and the road to victory.
In this book, Helio Castroneves tells
his resilient story about his greatest accomplishments, most
devastating experiences, becoming a father, and valuing what is
truly important in life.
Hard
cover, 304 pages, B&W and color photos.
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S-1144
Price: $25.95
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Blood and
Smoke: A True Tale of Mystery, Mayhem and the Birth of the Indy
500
by Charles Leerhsen
One
hundred years ago, 40 cars lined up for the first Indianapolis 500.
We are still waiting to find out who won.
The
Indy 500 was created to showcase the controversial new sport of
automobile racing, which was sweeping the country. Daring young men
were driving automobiles at the astonishing speed of 75 miles per
hour, testing themselves and their vehicles. It was indeed a young
man’s game: with no seat belts, hard helmets or roll bars, the
dangers were enormous. When the Indianapolis Motor Speedway opened
in 1909, seven people were killed, some of them spectators.
Although the 1911 Indy 500 judges declared Ray Harroun, driving a
Marmon Wasp, the official winner, there is reason to doubt that
result. The timekeeping equipment failed, and the judges had to run
for their lives when a driver lost control and his car spun wildly
toward their stand. It took officials two days to determine the
results, and Speedway authorities ordered the records to be
destroyed.
But
Blood and Smoke is about more than a race, even a race as
fabled as the Indianapolis 500. It is the story of America at the
dawn of the automobile age, a country in love with speed, danger,
and spectacle. It is a story, too, about the young men who would
risk their lives for money and glory, the sportsmen whose antics
would thrill and outrage Americans in those long-ago days when the
automobile was still brand new.
Hard cover, 288 pages.
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S-1142
Price: $29.95
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Still Wide Open, Second
Edition
by Brad
Doty and Dave Argabright
After being out-of-print for several
years, the "Second Edition" of Still Wide Open available again!
“Enhanced and Expanded” is the theme of this volume…it contains the
entire text of the original 1999 release, PLUS two new chapters that
bring you up-to-date with Brad. There is also a brand new cover, an
exciting new look, color photos, and a complete index!
Brad
Doty’s story remains one of the most inspiring and powerful in all
motorsports. He soared to the pinnacle of sprint car stardom, only
to be cut down in a devastating 1988 crash. A spinal injury stole
his ability to walk, but as this heartfelt and critically-acclaimed
volume attests, couldn’t diminish his will to live. Foreword by
Steve Kinser, along with insightful words from Ron Shuman, Bruce
Ellis, Ed Haudenschild, Laurie Doty, and the late Paul Wilson.
Hard cover, 288 pages,
including 32 pages of color and b/w photographs.
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S-1138
Price: $39.00
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George Benson: The Racing Years
by George Benson
The
Racing Years is a 472-page memoir of the life and times of the 1966
Pacific Coast Midget Racecar champion and the remarkable men he
associated with.
The book covers Motorcycle, Hardtop,
Midget, Sprint Car, Championship Dirt Car and Indy Car racing from
1952 to 1987 and features 157 photos.
Benson recounts his
adventures during the period and shares his thoughts about motor
racing and racecar design. He details race results and the complete
owner history of the GMB Midget racecars he built.
Soft
cover, 472 pages, B&W photos.
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S-1108
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The
Indianapolis 500: A Century of Excitement
by Ralph Kramer
with Preface by Helio Castroneves
Officially licensed in cooperation with the Indianapolis Motor
Speedway, Indianapolis 500: A Century of Excitement tells
the compelling and entertaining story of the race that has become
known as simply "The Greatest Spectacle in Racing."
Overflowing with eye-popping photographs hand-picked from the
Speedway's mammoth photo archives, and filled with historic,
behind-the-scene stories, you'll revel in the history that has
shaped this amazing event.
Ralph Kramer also authored the
acclaimed companion volume, Indianapolis Motor Speedway - 100
Years of Racing.
Hard
cover, 256 pp, color and B&W photos.
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S-1081
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Mark Donohue:
His Life in Photographs
by
Michael Argetsinger
In the stunning follow-up to his award-winning biography
Mark Donohue: Technical Excellence at Speed, author Michael
Argetsinger recreates Donohue’s remarkable life through hundreds of
brilliant photographs. Many of these pictures were provided by the
people who were closest to Donohue: his family, friends, and Penske
Racing teammates. The book also offers some of the best work by the
top motorsports photographers of the era, who deliver brilliant
images of Donohue with a dazzling array of race cars, and intimate
shots with his team and fellow drivers.
These photos not only offer a uniquely personal view of a
champion, but also reveal details of the cars that he drove and the
preparation that went into racing each of them. These include
everything from his earliest home-built efforts to the highly
refined Camaros, Javelins, and Porsches that made him a champion and
American icon in the 1960s and 1970s. Each image is accompanied by
Argetsinger’s detailed, insightful captions. And Mark’s
contemporaries—including his Penske teammates and fellow drivers Dan
Gurney, George Follmer, David Hobbs, John Surtees, and Bobby
Unser—also offer their recollections and commentary.
Even readers who are already familiar with the life and
legacy of Mark Donohue will be dazzled by this stunning collection
of images and memories. Mark Donohue: His Life in Photographs
vividly presents the life and times of an American racing hero.
Hard cover, 160 pages, 126 B&W and
118 color photographs.
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S-600
Original Price: $35.00
(Hard Cover)
Sale Price: $20.95
S-605
Original Price: $27.50
(Soft Cover)
Sale Price: $14.95
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VUKOVICH
by Bob Gates
This is an inspiring but painfully tragic tale of Indy’s greatest
driver and the two generations of his family following him to the
famous “Brickyard”.
In 320 pages, packed with 260 photos (72 in
color), the book covers this amazing American racing family from Vukie’s early post-war exploits to Bill III’s death in a sprint car
in 1990.
Hard Cover and Soft
Cover Versions
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S-808
Original Price: $25.00
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NEVER LOOK BACK
by Johnnie Parsons with
Gary Delph and Charles C Bolton
In this new book, Johnnie Parsons reveals his innermost thoughts as
he competed against the very best racing drivers in the world during
one of auto racing’s most dangerous eras.
A great insight into the
life and thoughts of “An Auto Racing Champion” with special insights
from Johnnie’s friends and competitors and the story of “the trip
around the world in 80 delays” by IMS historian, Donald Davidson.
Hard cover, 256 pages, 92 photos
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S-640
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EDDIE SACHS, The Clown Prince
By Denny Miller
The Life and Times of one of the World’s Greatest
Drivers, Eddie Sachs. Over 600 pages filled with racing memories,
remarkable photography, and humorous stories about a guy who talked
his way into the cockpit...and into history.
Soft Cover, 625 pages, B&W photos.
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S-979
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Hard Times, Hard Driving
– Dirt Track Racing in the 1930s
by Richard Sharpless and
John Way
The dirt track racers who caught the public’s attention in the
Depression years were often local boys. They came from farms and
factories, from small towns and big cities, but they had in common a
fascination with the machine that was fast transforming America. For
them the automobile was a magical machine they could drive into
adventure, fame, and, just possibly, profit. It set them apart as
unique.
Along with daredevil drivers and imaginative mechanics with their
homemade cars, the era produced its share of inventive racing
people: weekend enthusiasts who labored for little more than love of
the sport as scorers, timekeepers, pit stewards, and starters. Since
almost everybody had to learn from scratch, it all became a game of
make up.
This is the story of that hard times decade, about the drivers and
builders, the promoters and officials, about all those who laid the
foundation for the emergence of big-time racing after the Second
World War. It is a story based on extensive interviews of those who
were there, who did the work of making American automobile racing a
sport of the common man.
Soft cover, 152 pages.
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S-810
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SuperSpecial: $16.95
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DAREDEVILS OF
THE
FRONTIER
By Keith Herbst
Coastal 181 is extremely proud to have worked so closely with Keith
Herbst to publish this title before he died in June 2009. It is a
beautiful hardcover book, painstakingly researched – a treasure
trove of stories, stats and photos for any midget enthusiast.
Keith Herbst chronicles
The Daredevils—a unique breed of Eastern
and Midwestern race car drivers who met
regularly on the common ground of the
Niagara Frontier to test their mettle.
Daredevils is a visual remembrance of
the excitement and the thrills these
drivers provided to record-breaking
crowds of race fans in the turbulent
1940s and 1950s.
Hardcover, est. 250 pages with
over 400 photographs.
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S-951
with Supplement
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S-951S
Supplement Alone
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Racers at Rest – the
Checkered Flag
By Buzz Rose, Joe Heisler,
Fred Chaparro,
and Jeff Sharpe
The most significant book ever written on open-wheel oval-track
racing (including midgets, sprints, supermodifieds, roadsters, and
Champ Cars).
A celebration of life to honor the nearly 1500 who perished while
racing, from 1908 to 2008.
1000 photos and articles, 448 pp, high quality glossy paper, 9”x12”.
Now includes a 64-page supplement with
important new information discovered since 2008 through extensive
research.
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S-942
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The Unfair Advantage
by Mark Donohue
In 1974, Mark Donohue took a year off from driving at the height of
his racing career to write "The Unfair Advantage," a candid and
revealing book about his journey through the world of auto racing –
from amateur SCCA races in his own 57 Corvette to winning the Indy
500 in Roger Penske’s McLaren M16.
Considered a classic, the book was reissued in 2000; this edition
contains over 60 additional photographs and comments from people who
worked and raced with Donohue during the 1960s and early 1970s.
Soft cover, 350 pages, 100+ black and white & color photos.
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S-933
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THANKS: The Story of Rick
Mears and the Mears Gang
by Gordon Kirby
Through the eighties and into the early nineties he was known as the
King of the Speedways and the maestro of the Indianapolis Motor
Speedway. Rick Mears, the gentleman racer, won four Indianapolis
500s between 1979 and 1991, as well as three CART Indy car
championships, before retiring at the end of 1992 following a series
of injuries.
Originally from Kansas, Rick, his brother Roger, and his racer dad
Bill were known as the “Mears Gang” in Southern California sprint
buggy and off-road racing. Brother Roger went on to race Indy cars
for a few years before focusing his career on off-road racing, where
he was an extremely successful owner/driver.
The Mears Gang tradition carries on today with Roger’s son Casey
racing in NASCAR’s Sprint Cup. In Rick Mears • Thanks, veteran
racing writer Gordon Kirby, the U.S. editor of Motor Sport, tells
the whole story of Rocket Rick Mears and the Mears Gang’s journey
from dirt tracks to superspeedways.
Soft cover, 264 pages.
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S-925
Price: $22.95
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BRICK BY BRICK – The Story of
Auto Racing Pioneer Joie Ray
by Patrick Sullivan
Joie Ray was a journeyman open wheel driver in the forties and
fifties. He raced widely and well, but took only three checkered
flags and never achieved his ambition of racing at the Brickyard.
Ray was black – the first to break the color barrier with AAA. This
is the passionate story of a gentle, but pioneering American.
The book was published by Dave Argabright.
Soft cover, 208
pages, black and white photography.
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S-920
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Dialed In –The Jan
Opperman Story
by John Sawyer
Dialed In –The Jan Opperman Story
has been
re-released in a new edition. According to the publishers it is “a
book that is acknowledged by many as being a classic auto-racing
story. It is filled with passion and pathos, sometimes humorous,
sometimes sad.
The Jan Opperman story is one of never giving up and having faith in
a divine being.
It provides the reader the rare opportunity to peer behind the
glamorous facade of auto racing and meet the inner man.
The friendship between narrator and author is evident and while much
of the book is Jan’s own words, John Sawyer has carefully authored
them. From a teenage street fighter, motorcycle flat track racer and
California
hippie to respected Sprint car driver and Indy 500 racer - Jan
Opperman's story is remarkable, entertaining and difficult to put
down."
Soft cover,
5 1/2" x 8 ˝”, 144 pages,
38
black & white photos.
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S-160
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My Road to Indy
by Len Sutton
Coastal 181 is very
pleased to be offering this newly reprinted edition of Len Sutton’s
spectacular racing autobiography.
With insight and intelligence, Len has chronicled his incredible
road through early open wheel racing to the infamous Indy roadster,
to the advent of rear engine design.
There are 175 photographs throughout this hardcover book and an
introduction by Donald Davidson, Indianapolis Speedway historian.
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S-744
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LONE WOLF
by Doug Wolfgang
with Dave Argabright
Doug Wolfgang,
winner of five Knoxville Nationals, is one of the finest sprint car
drivers of all time; Dave Argabright is one of the finest writers.
This is a brand new and haunting volume, full of the intensity,
triumph, tragedy, and controversy so much a part of the sport.
Hard cover, 300
pages, color and B&W photos.
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S-855
Price: $39.95
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Damn Few Died in Bed
by Andy Dunlop and Thomas
Saal
The remarkable story of Andy Dunlop, a master mechanic and crew
chief who spent almost 50 years in American automotive competition.
In a book that captures the essence of American dirt track racing,
Saal's skillful interviews with Dunlop bring out the highs and lows
of the amazing life of a chief mechanic on the championship trail in
the Fifties and Sixties.
This volume is a true testament to Andy and many others who lived
and sometimes died on the edge, preparing cars and driving them to
their limit.
Hardcover, 300 pages, with
B&W and color photos, 7 1/4' x 10 1/4"
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S-236
Price: $32.95
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The
Marvelous Mechanical
Designs of
Harry A. Miller
By Gordon E. White
Harry A. Miller designed racing
cars that were among the finest of the golden age of
American auto racing for nearly two decades. This book
portrays Miller's racing cars of the glorious roaring
twenties along with his speedboat and aircraft engines
- even his design for a high-speed combat vehicle engine.
An exciting collection of photos of the work of one
of America's mechanical geniuses, along with commentary
on Miller's work by auto racing historian Gordon Eliot
White.
Soft cover, 142 black & white
photographs.
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S-721
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Wooden Rails & Rooster Tails: An Autoracing Anthology
by Earl C. Fabritz & Allan
G. Krause
Travel into the past and read about the beginnings of auto racing.
This book is a collection of short stories previously published in
magazines over the last twenty plus years.
By putting them in a book, you can understand the history behind the
race tracks, men and machines which created a foundation for today's
modern auto racing.
Included are several stories about the Mile and racing in Milwaukee
& Wisconsin area, and there is also a story on the Fresno,
California's mile dirt track and Sioux City, Iowa's two-mile dirt
track.
Hard cover. 136 pages, 9” by 6”, black and white photos throughout.
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S-833SC Soft Cover
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UMBRELLA MIKE:
The True Story of the Chicago Gangster Behind the Indy 500
by Brock Yates
Umbrella Mike is Michael Joseph Boyle, the corrupt leader of
Chicago’s most powerful union and on friendly terms with Al Capone.
Umbrella Mike was one of the few who could afford the luxury of
racing during the hardship of the Depression. In 1937, dogged by
adverse publicity and a barrage of disasters, the prestigious
Vanderbilt Cup was held on Long Island. This book remarkably
chronicles the dramatic events that unfolded during this most
controversial of races — pitting against one another a Nazi poster
child, a German-hating Swiss, and the brilliant American underdog
who has a trick or two up his sleeve.
Soft cover
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S-834
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Rodger Ward: Superstar of
American Racing's Golden Age
by Mike O’Leary
For a generation of racing fans, and for racing history buffs to
this day, Rodger Ward embodies the post-war era of open wheel racing
in the United States. In Wards day, drivers didn’t specialize, they
raced every chance they got, so he competed in Mexican road races,
the Monza Race of Two Worlds, Grand Prix (Formula 1), and he even
won a AAA stock car points title.
He raced from 1948-1966 and he was inducted into the Motorsports
Hall of Fame in 1992. He died in 2004 at age 83.
Hard cover, 160 pages S-834 Price $40.00
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S-663
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The Iron Duke
by George
Peters
George and Barbara Peters’ energetic new historical racing book
details the incredible career of Duke Nalon, 1934-1954.
Nalon was
just as big as they come in midgets, sprinters, and champ cars. He
won several AAA titles and capped his career with a 100 mile midget
win at Terra Haute.
The Iron Duke’s most infamous laps, however,
were behind the wheel of the ultra-powerful, man-eating Novi entries
at Indy. He snatched the pole position twice, took home a third, and
lived through it. Duke Nalon was the best record of any of the Novi
chauffeurs.
Soft cover, 270 pages – vintage B&W photography throughout
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