Download or read book Fifty Years of Stock Car Racing written by Ken Breslauer and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 50 Years of Stock Car Racing written by Ken Breslauer and published by David Bull Pub. This book was released on 1998-05-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stock Car Racing in the 50s written by Ford Easton and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human beings have always been driven to compete. Foot racing became horse racing became automobile racing, and we continue to redefine the word “fast.” Whether you prefer the tales of American bootleggers customizing Prohibition-era automobiles to outrun the law or the natural progression of cars replacing horses on the streets and on the racetrack, automobile racing flourished as a sport for many years in the United States before stock car racing truly came into its own in the 1950s. The economy rebounded after the end of World War II. The GIs brought home skills and knowledge about advances in technology, and civilians had learned how to get the most out of old machines during the war. Scrap steel was no longer reserved exclusively for the War Effort, and the junkyards were filling up with worn out cars as people started to invest in new ones to replace them. A very competitive stock car could be purchased at the junk yard for $25 or so. By adding another $75, a clever builder could make it race ready. Teams of weekend warriors could compete head to head against well-funded, highly trained teams and have a real shot at winning. It was a perfect combination: knowledgeable mechanics and fearless drivers in cars that the public recognized from their daily life. The grandstands filled and new tracks turned up all across the countryside to satisfy the public's interest in watching these race cars compete. Associations formed to standardize the tracks, which were often farm fields that had been lovingly sculpted and paved by the farmers themselves to give the drivers and their crews a place to showcase their talent. These men and women entertained, awed, and inspired a generation of "motor heads" and race fans. This book is a tribute to the drivers and other figures from Western New York and Northwestern Pennsylvania who shaped stock car racing in the 1950s.
Download or read book The Godfather of New England Stock Car Racing written by Adrienne J Venditti and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-05-18 with total page 999 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is dedicated to the man whose life inspired me to tell his story. His name is D. Anthony Venditti, widely known as the Godfather of Stock Car Racing in New England. It is also dedicated to my mother, with her eternal love and devoted support of her beloved Anthony, her family, and racing. She and the Godfather enabled and empowered our family to persevere in the sport. This is to all those with unending convictions in the Godfather and to the Seekonk Fraternity of racing. This book is a pictorial and a closer look at the life of the Godfather. He was the youngest promoter in motor sports in the United States in the 1940s. And as a twenty-five-year-old, he planned, engineered, and built his speedway. He was young and full of ambition. It was his dream, an American dream, to build, open, and operate his speedway at the end of World War II, in 1946. Yet when in his advanced years, he then became known as the oldest living promoter in stock car racing. He consecutively ran his race plant each year, faithfully opening his facility, without fail. He never missed a season under his reign—an unheard-of feat of forty-five years as a stock car racing promoter. Seekonk Speedway continues to run without any ambiguity by the same family. The speedway is proudly still in business all these seventy-three consecutive years of racing in the books. Anthony is celebrated and acclaimed for his pioneering in the American sport of auto racing, awarded RPM’s “1978 Promoter of the Year.” It was with great adoration of the sports community that he is acknowledged for his forethought and far-reaching ideas of innovation pertaining to mechanical engineering, safety features in facility construction, and administrative procedures. Mr. Venditti is attributed to numerous awards for his devotion for the betterment of the sport of auto racing.
Download or read book Superfast Stock Car Racing written by Beth Bence Reinke and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter the thrilling world of stock car racing! Readers will discover the history of stock car racing, what a typical race day looks like, who the hottest racers are, and more.
Download or read book Syracuse Scrapbook written by Syracuse Herald Journal Staff and published by . This book was released on 1999-12-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sporting News Selects Stock Car Racing s 50 Greatest Drivers written by and published by Contemporary Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A listing of the top 50 NASCAR drivers through history with an extensive tribute to Dale earnhardt. Includes a section of NASCAR records.
Download or read book Modified Stock Car Racing of the 60s and 70s written by Steve Kennedy and published by Enthusiast Books. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never before has a national publication featured a collection of photos of the Northeast’s favorite stock car racing’s division – the modifieds. The author brings together photos and text of the region’s best-loved drivers and their cars, as well as the “also-rans,” during the ‘60s and ‘70s when modifieds were built in backyards by local mechanics utilizing junkyard parts, no two cars looked alike, and there were so many tracks to race at. See them now as they were!
Download or read book McLaren written by Maurice Hamilton and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces Bruce McLaren's early success on the racetrack, follows his career as the engineer behind some of the world's fastest cars and outlines the legacy of speed and performance that he left behind. It featuresexclusive interviews with Patty McLaren-Brickett, Martin Whitmarsh, Niki Lauda, Alain Prost, and Jenson Button, along with key members of the McLaren team across the decades.--From book jacket.
Download or read book Stock Cars Before NASCAR written by Buddy Mewbourne and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A narrative about automobile racing infancy. The early racers like Henry Ford, Vanderbilt, and Barney Oldfield created a path that through the years was a model for racing excellence. The rough and tumble years of the 30's and 40's led the way to the great sport we have today. Stock Car racing that had few if any regulations preceded NASCAR that brought sanity and organization. The formation of this giant of today's automobile racing was just was needed to turn chaos into respectability. In the beginning of NASCAR, the southern states the focus. Today NASCAR is nationwide with dozens of super speedways and thousands of fans. "STOCK CARS BEFORE NASCAR" explores racing from the 1900's to the 1970's. Read about stock car racing, and discover race tracks and drivers and race cars, in all the southeastern stated plus Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Download or read book Inside Track written by Benny Parsons and published by Artisan Publishers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: United States, stock car racing has become a national passion. Featuring expert commentary by International Motor Sports Hall of Fame driver Benny Parsons, this photographic documentatary highlights a year on the NASCAR circuit, as top drivers and their crews race their way through the Winston Cup series. 120 photos.
Download or read book Stock Car Racing written by Robert Blake Jackson and published by Henry Z. Walck, Incorporated. This book was released on 1973 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the highly colorful cars, popular drivers, and milestones in the history of stock car racing.
Download or read book Forty Years of Stock Car Racing written by Greg Fielden and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Superstars of Stock Car Racing written by Frank Moriarty and published by Metro Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated celebration of NASCAR racing offers profiles of drivers of the sport, a look at stock car racing's most memorable races, and year-by-year statistics
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Stock Car Racing 2 volumes written by Lew Freedman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 969 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume encyclopedia is the Daytona 500 of stock car racing books—an essential "Bible" that provides an all-encompassing history of the sport as well as an up-to-date examination of modern-day stock car racing. How did stock car racing become firmly entrenched in American pop culture, especially in light of the lack of interest in motorsports overall as a spectator activity in the United States? And what has been the secret to NASCAR's financial success and growth over the last six decades? Encyclopedia of Stock Car Racing highlights approximately 250 subjects that have defined the sport since stock car racing was first organized. Organized in A-Z order, it covers all of the greatest drivers, such as Richard Petty, Jimmie Johnson, Junior Johnson, and David Pearson; the special races such as the Daytona 500 and Brickyard 400; and the famed tracks across the country, from Bristol Motor Speedway to Darlington Raceway to Talladega Superspeedway. This unprecedented resource collects information about every element of NASCAR history in one place: the early personalities who shaped the sport and set things in motion, the past greats who have now retired, and today's rising stars who continue to make stock car racing one of the most popular sports in the United States.
Download or read book Imsa written by and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-25 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1969, John Bishop and Bill France, Sr. acted on a collective vision to plot a new course for road racing in the United States. What began as a Formula Ford and Formula Vee race in October of 1969, quickly morphed into a sports car racing series that brought the aspirational cars people drove, or wished to drive, to compete on a racetrack.Thus the International Motor Sports Association, or IMSA as it is more commonly known, was founded, and not long after domestic and import car-makers took notice as did the leading sports car racing drivers from at home and abroad. Today, 50 years after Bishop and France hatched their plan over a glass or two of scotch, compelled by a shared passion to bring competitive racing for drivers and teams that would captivate fans and fuel the sale of sports cars in showroom across America, IMSA has stayed true to their vision.Along the way, there have been some twists. Yet, in whatever the form it was at the time, IMSA has undeniably produced a bounty of great sports car racing that often has witnessed the titans of the sport battle each other for supremacy. Today, IMSA continues to be a collection of legendary events contested by an international field of drivers and teams behind the wheel of the world¿s most illustrious automobile marques.Celebrating 50 years of IMSA, this book reacquaints us with just some of the people, cars and events through images and words from the sport¿s leading photographers and journalists that have played a role in creating IMSA¿s lore. Across these pages is journey of highlights and reminiscences, facts and possibly a tale or two to recall a fraction of what has transpired throughout IMSA¿s history, but will certainly inspire memories of your own.
Download or read book Legends of Stock Car Racing written by John Craft and published by Motorbooks. This book was released on 1995 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles of two dozen legendary drivers, car builders, and track owners who have made NASCAR stock car racing one of America's most popular sports.
