- Cars
of the State Police & Highway Patrol - This book was
bought solely to be used as a reference source for model making
hobby. Well laid out and excellent photographs make
this a must for the model fanatic. Living in England there
is not a great deal of decent reference material of this nature.
I really cannot recommend this book enough.
- Police
Cars: Restoring, Collecting and Showing America's Finest Sedans
- Police cars are a unique breed, and their restoration can
be much more difficult than other marques. Find out how to
tackle this project the right way with help from Jim Post,
founder of Police Car Owners of America, and Ed Sanow, author
of many well-known publications on police cars. Police Cars
provides insight into the cars, the emergency equipment, and
the police heritage itself. Reveals a complete a ground-up
restoration, from choosing the right car to locating all the
equipment you will need, to showing the finished project.
- Pro
Stock Drag Racing of the 1970s Photo Archive: From Stockers
to Door Slammers - Pro Stockers with radical big-block
race engines and factory bodywork always provided plenty of
fender-to-fender wheel stand action. 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 high wheel action
in this 'door slammer' pictorial. A must for hardcore Pro
Stock fans!
- 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.
- Drag
Racing Funny Cars of the 1960s Photo Archive: From Super Stockers
to Floppers - In the 1960s funny cars captured the fans
with tremendous smoky burnouts and gigantic wheel stands,
they were so unpredictable that you never knew what to expect
- they might go straight or end up glancing off the guard
rail. Heroes were born and idolized with their driving talents
and their showmanship. Arnie "The Farmer" Beswick,
"Mr. Pontiac" Jess Tyree, The "Kings of Smoke"
- Farkonas, Coil and Minick's "Chi-Town Hustler,"
Don Schumacher, "Big John" Mazmanian, and "Jungle
Jim" Liberman drew standing room only crowds each and
every Saturday night under the lights!
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