Kenny
Bernstein: King of Speed - Kenny Bernstein: King of Speed
is a picture book that details the triumphs of Top
Fuel Eliminator racer Kenny Bernstein. Bernstein and co-author
Bill Stephens describe Bernstein's lust for speed, his rise
through the Funny Car circuit, his bittersweet breakthrough
in 1996, and his long list of epic battles with drag racing
stars that ultimately resulted in a championship in 2001.
Sit back, but don't forget to hold on, and enjoy the ride
of your life with Kenny Bernstein: King of
Shirley
Muldowney's Tales From The Track - In the 1970s, when
the idea of a woman competing successfully with men in any
form of motorsports was a radical notion, a young woman from
Schenectady, New York, began her singular quest to change
the chauvinistic mindset that prevailed in professional drag
racing. Shirley Muldowney not only broke the gender barrier
in the National Hot Rod Association, but also completely rewrote
the record books in Top Fuel Eliminator, the sport’s
quickest and fastest category. She was the first woman ever
to receive a Top Fuel license from the NHRA, and none other
than "Big Daddy" Don Garlits was one of the veteran
drivers who signed off on it. Between 1977 and 1982, Muldowney
won three NHRA Top Fuel championships—the first female
ever to win a title in any professional motorsport—and
added an AHRA Top Fuel championship to her resume, as well.
Those
Wild Fuel Altereds: Drag Racing in the Sixties - Before
the 1957 ban on running alcohol and nitro fuels the author
ran a very successful Fuel Coupe.After the ban he gave up
and switched to competing in the Supercharged Gas Coupe class.
Before that in 1956 he put together the Fuel Coupe Invitational
at the Santa Ana drag strip. It was the first drag race eliminator
program for any individual,non-dragster class.It was a big
success but the fuel ban was introduced only a few months
later. Although the author had moved on it was exciting to
see the fuel guys come back in the early 1960s.Several of
them were cars that the author had previously raced such as
the Gene Mooneyham 1934 coupe.
