- Garlits
Collection: Cars That Made Drag Racing History
- The most significant cars in Big Daddy's museum, and probably
the most significant cars in all of drag racing. From primitive
machines like The Bug - so rough it'll tear your pants - to
Garlits' own Swamp Rat 34 - a high-tech top fueler with thousands
of horsepower on tap, and everything in between. Funny cars,
Pro/Stocks, Fuel Coupes, roadsters, streamliners, Super Stocks,
Gassers and more - this book covers them all, with spectacular
color photos of the restored machines, right alongside vintage
black-and-white images from Garlits' own collection. By the
time you're done with this book, you'll understand not just
the cars, but the history of drag racing and the life and
times of one of its legendary figures - Don Garlits.
- Gasser
Wars: Drag Racing's Street Classes, 1955-1968 - In the
late 1950s, thousands of street legal hot rods participated
in organized drag races across the country-they ran in three
major classes: Gas, Modified Production, and Modified Sports.
As the racers got more serious, these cars were street legal
in appearance only. Yeah, they had headlights, taillights,
and interiors, but they were full-on race cars, with huge
blown Hemi engines, wide racing slicks, raised front suspensions.
Racers soon discovered that small, lightweight cars were the
fastest, and the classic Gasser was born-cars like the Stone
Woods & Cook '40 Willys.
- High
Performance : The Culture and Technology of Drag Racing, 1950-2000
- If you are looking for a history of drag racing from its
inception to the present day, this book is for you. It is
a fascinating look at the sport from the outlaw street racing
days to the highly organized events that we see today. Lots
of information and stories about the personalities and organizations
that have been involved over the years, including engine builders,
drivers, chassis builders and backers. The origins of the
major organizing bodies and their battles for supremacy are
all recounted.
- History
of Dodge in Stock Car Racing - For more than 20 years,
Dodge Chrysler stock car racing fans had little to cheer about.
That all changed at the Daytona 500 in 2001, with popular
driver Bill Elliott
winning the pole position with the great crew chief Ray Evernham
at the helm. Now, you Dodge fans can bone up on the history
maybe you've never heard about, drivers like Jimmy Thompson,
Jim Paschal, Marvin Panch, and Lee
Petty, power plants like the Fivepower V-8 and the legendary
"Hemi," and
that wild and crazy wonder of aerodynamics, the winged Dodge
Charger Daytona.
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