- Pro
Stock Drag Racing of the 1970s Photo Archive: From Stockers
to Doorslammers - Popular drivers like "Dandy Dick"
Landy, Bill "Grumpy" Jenkins, Ronnie Sox, Bob Glidden,
Wally Booth, Wayne Gapp, Warren Johnson, "Dyno"
Don Nicholson, Lee Hunter, Scott Shafiroff, Brad Yuill, Richie
Zul, and many more are all showcased in drag race action in
this door-slammer pictorial. A must for hardcore Pro Stock
fans!
- Quarter-Mile
Muscle! - Quarter Mile Muscle covers the development and
success of the muscle cars at the drags in all classes, from
Super Stock to the early muscle car-based funny cars. Special
attention is paid to low-production factory cars that were
intended specifically for the drags - cars like the COPO Camaros,
Ford Thunderbolts, and the dealer-built specials from Yenko,
Motion, and others.
- 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.
- Slingshot
Dragsters of the 1960s Photo Archive - n the early 1960s,
front-engine dragsters, or slingshots, featured tubular built
chassis powered by a variety of powerplants, consisting of
small-block Chevrolets, Chrysler Hemi’s, Ford, Pontiac,
Cadillac, Oldsmobile, and Lincoln motors either fueled on
Nitro Methane or pump gas. Wheelbases varied from 110 inches
in 1962 to over 200 inches in 1969. During the early 1960s,
racing legend "Big Daddy" Don Garlits ran a series
of "Swamp Rat" dragsters which not only dominated
the quarter-mile, but many of his creations were made by using
experimental aerodynamic parts to give better traction and
faster speeds. Relive the 1960s era of the front-engine dragster,
nicknamed the slingshot for it’s aerodynamic design
in crisp, high-quality color and black and white photos.
- Hot
Rod: The Photography Of Peter Vincent - Nothing captures
the visual essence of the hot rod like Peter Vincent's photography.
In brilliant color and fully-saturated black-and-white photography,
Vincent will capture America's most essential hot rods, hot
rodders, and racers in dramatic settings such as the Bonneville
Salt Flats and California's dry lakes – the places from
which hot rodders have always drawn inspiration. The majority
of the book's photographs will get the same treatment: each
will have its own page, surrounded by white space and properly
cropped and framed to show off Vincent's photographic artistry.
Woven throughout the book, Vincent will tell the story of
hot rodding through interviews with the originators of the
culture, land speed racers, and the new generation of hot
rodders who are keeping alive the aesthetic sensibility of
hot rodding.
- Hot
Rod Milestones -Beginning in the postwar 1940s and progressing
to the present day, this color history takes a decade-by-decade
look at the hot rods that have become particularly notorious
for their creators' stylistic and mechanical achievements.
A swinging' combination of evocative archival and eye-popping
contemporary color photography showcases landmark creations
by the likes of George Barris (i.e., "Ala Cart"
and "Twister T"), Ed "Big Daddy" Roth
(i.e., "Beatnik Bandit" and "Outlaw"),
and Boyd Coddington (i.e., "Smoothster"), as well
as cars that were crafted by lesser-known builders but, nonetheless,
earned a fair share of renowned. In all, a celebration of
nearly 40 fantastic hot rods.
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