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$23.95
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STEADY EDDIE!
Memories of
Ed Flemke
Modified Racing’s Fastest Professor
Edited &
annotated by
Bones Bourcier
Rivals, teammates, friends, and family members
recall one of America’s most influential
short-trackers, a man who won hundreds of features
in modified racing’s glory days.
Contributors include NASCAR Cup winners Pete
Hamilton and Ron Bouchard, legendary team owner
Junie Donlavey, modified icons Gene Bergin and Bob
Judkins, broadcaster/promoter Jack Arute, and many
more!
Bones Bourcier is the author of acclaimed
biographies on Tony Stewart, Richie Evans, and Bugsy
Stevens; Steady Eddie promises to be another
classic!
Soft cover, black and white photos,
256 pages
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S-726
Price: $24.95
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THE OLD MASTER:
the Frankie Schneider Story
with Dennis Keenan
Dennis Keenan has done an extraordinary job in recapturing the long
and colorful racing life of Frankie Schneider, the East Coast’s
undisputed King of the Modifieds.
The story starts at Flemington, NJ in 1947 in a battered ’37 Ford
coach with numbers drawn in lipstick. It weaves year by year to the
present, including Grand National, convertible, open wheel, and road
racing adventures, all over the country.
It ends up with Frankie’s surprise 80th birthday. It becomes crystal
clear to the reader that, regardless what happens to racing in the
future, there will never be another Frankie Schneider.
Soft cover, black
and white photography,
184 pages.
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S-709
Price: $14.95
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Ken Essary: The Flyin’
Farmer
by Karen Essary Fulp
Drivers, associates, friends and family of the legend, Ken Essary,
have contributed their personal stories about their association with
the man who has been known as the “flying farmer during his 35 year
racing career.
Bill Frye, Roger
Chism, Tommy Joe Pauschert, William Todd, J.V. Brotherton (Brodix),
Don & Billie Gibson (West Plain Motor Speedway) and many, many
others have shared a few of their experiences with the veteran
driver from Cape Fair, MO.
The book contains
many funny stories, photos, quotes about some of the most memorable
races and worst wrecks Ken was involved in. Also learn just how Ken,
a 2006 National Dirt Late Model Hall of Fame inductee became the
“Flying Farmer.”
Soft cover, 142 pages, 8 ½” x 5 ½”,
black and white photos throughout.
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S-839
Price: $14.95
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WHERE
STARS ARE BORN – Celebrating 25
Years of NASCAR Weekly Racing
by Paul Schaefer
The first book ever on the short
track heroes who became NASCAR
Weekly Series national champions
– stars like Larry Phillips, the
Kosiski brothers, and Ted
Christopher, tracing their
challenges and triumphs on dirt
and asphalt ovals across the
country.
Also includes a chapter listing
the drivers voted by the media
as the All-Time Top 25 drivers
in Weekly Series history,
including Richie Evans, who is
still considered the greatest
asphalt Modified driver in
NASCAR history.
Stories, photos, and 25-year
Top-10 race records for each
region.
Soft cover, 176 pages, 100+
photos.
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S-806
Price: $24.95
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BAREFOOT – The Autobiography of Bob McCreadie
with Andy Fusco
The most enduring and endearing DIRT modified performer ever shares
tales of his 35 years behind the wheel.
Known as much for his ‘outrider’ appearance and philosophy, Barefoot
has been consistently fast and edgy.
Nothing is spared as he talks of his adolescent confrontations with
the law, his hundreds of victories, his stark analysis of other
competitors, and his enormous pride about his nationally recognized
racer son, Timmy.
The author, Andy Fusco, has put forth another gem, and the images
are excellent.
Soft cover, 132 pages with black and white photography.
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S-29
Price: $19.95
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Life Wide Open
Dave Dion: No Holds Barred
by Dave Dion with Dave Moody
Dave Dion's
autobiography proves conclusively why he is considered the most
popular Late Model driver in the Northeast.
Working with long time announcer and journalist Dave Moody, Dion
talks passionately about his racing career and his family's personal
struggle with alcoholism, the
Vietnam War, and the pressures of decades on the road.
Loaded with photography, it is the classic story of a rugged
individualist who pieces
together a moral code far more precious than the silver in his
hundreds of trophies.
Soft Cover, 224 pages with
over 100 black and white photos.
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S-61
Price: $25.95
Temporarily
Out of Print
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RICHIE!
The Fast Life and Times of NASCAR's
Greatest Modified Driver
By Bones Bourcier
From farm boy to nine-time
NASCAR National Champion, Richie Evans raced through life in the
fast lane. Motorsports biographer Bones Bourcier was along for much
of the ride as a reporter, observer and friend, and now he tells the
complete and unabridged story of the man voted “NASCAR's greatest
modified driver.”
Weaving together over 300 photographs and excerpts from hundreds of
hours of interviews with competitors, crew members, friends and
family members, “RICHIE!” takes us on a virtual journey back to the
time when modifieds ruled and Evans was King. This is the perfect
gift for racing fans of all ages.
Soft cover, over 350 pages
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S-179
Price: $19.95
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BUGSY! — The Life and
Times
of Bugs Stevens, three-time NASCAR
National Modified Champion
By Bones Bourcier
Modified fans
everywhere know the legendary name Bugsy Stevens, and
his amazing story has at last been told. Whether tooling
around the tiny bull rings in Texas while in the service,
or driving the famous NASCAR ovals nearer his Massachusetts
home, or competing on the high banks of Daytona International,
Bugsy Stevens did it all with the skill of a seasoned
professional and the merriment of a Saturday night beer
hall.
Stevens’ perspective is profound and touching,
as he deals deeply with issues such as racing ethics,
driving styles, track types, and even the deaths of
so many of his buddies. Told to his friend Bones Bourcier,
an internationally acclaimed motorsports journalist.
232 pages, over 150 photos
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Out of Print
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They Called Me ‘The Shoe’
By Kenny Shoemaker with Lew Boyd
After three
printings, Coastal 181's
first book is finally out of print.
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S-183
Price: $19.95
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THE PINE–The Authorized
Biography of Jim Shampine
By Andy Fusco
Andy Fusco
and George Caruso have assembled a terrific –
and very thorough – history of the career of the
great Jim Shampine.
They cover thoughtfully and authoritatively
the Pine’s meteoric rise to fame in the sixties,
his amazingly broad racing successes, and his devastating
death on September 4, 1982.
Hundreds of pictures from
far and wide flood this 122 page paperback volume.
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S-98
Price: $39.95
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Racing's Real McCoy
By Jack McCoy, Keith Sellars &
Richard Hagerty
This book, sharing the road with pioneers of the Wild West, was written
by Modesto, California’s Jack McCoy and Keith Sellars with Richard
“Sterling” Hagerty. This hardbound edition has 569 pages and
over 900 photos of the cars and people that make up the history of western
auto racing. There is a foreword by NASCAR Winston Cup Director, Gary Nelson.
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