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- Diggers,
Funnies, Gassers, and Altereds: Drag Racing's Golden Age -
In the ‘60s, drag racing evolved from a "run what ya
brung" grass roots effort to a full-blown professional motorsport
– along the way, it created some of the most exciting racing
and race cars ever built. And Bob McClurg was there with a camera.
McClurg is an accomplished magazine writer and photographer, but
he’s best known for his drag racing images of the
‘60s and ‘70s – his lens captured all the action
of the Roadsters, Gassers, Altereds, Top Fuel, Thunderbolt Funny
Cars, Pro/Stocks, and even
the modern age of nostalgia drag racing. Now for the first time,
McClurg’s best drag racing photos are brought together in
one volume – a book that every drag racing fan will have
to see. With more than 350 color and black-and-white photos,
this book is an exciting visual history of the sport’s
most exciting years – the Golden Age of drag racing.
- American
Drag Racing - Top fuelers, funny cars, super stocks, pro stocks,
and fuel-altereds are all included in this look back at the evolution
of drag racing from the 1950s to today. Modern color photography
of these landmark cars is accompanied by imagery from the
NHRA archives and the stories of the legends who built and drove
the cars on drag strips across the nation.
- Factory
Lightweights: Detroit's Drag Racing Specials of the '60s
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Factory Lightweights: Detroit's Drag Racing Specials of the '60s
chronicles these rare cars that still inspire admirers and imitators
today. Among racers it's never been a secret that a lighter car
is a faster car--particularly in drag racing. When Detroit's automakers
got involved in organized drag racing, they paid heed to this
principle, issuing a series of rare race-only cars that became
legends in their own time. Unbound by warranty and durability
concerns, these wild cars featured lightweight additions such
as fiberglass and aluminum body parts, Plexiglas windows and many
more weight-saving tricks. Under their hoods were wicked, raucous
engines that only felt at home on the quarter mile. Cars like
the Ford Fairlane 427 Thunderbolt, Pontiac's Super Duty Catalina,
Dyno Don Nicholson's Chevy II Wagon, and a whole assortment of
Hemi-powered Mopars sit at the top of the heap when you're talking
about the fastest American muscle cars produced during the 1960s.
Few of these cars were produced and very few still survive today.
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