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Book Synopsis Tales from the Drag Strip by : Don Garlits
Download or read book Tales from the Drag Strip written by Don Garlits and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the moment that young men began modifying and personalizing their automobiles back in the 1940s and ’50s, “Big Daddy” Don Garlits was squarely in the thick of this intoxicating pursuit. Tales from the Drag Strip with “Big Daddy” Don Garlits is a first-person account of the many memorable experiences this drag racing icon has lived through in his half-century of nitromethane-fueled exploits. The many races, racers, race fans, and race tracks that have touched his colorful career are recounted as only Big Daddy can, painting a vivid picture of his life at speed and the triumphs and tragedies that came along the way. Insightful, ironic, humorous, and touching—but all true—Big Daddy’s remembrances are the next best thing to reliving the glory days of America’s quickest and fastest motorsports through the eyes of an American institution.
Book Synopsis Big Daddy Don Garlits Tales from the Drag Strip by : Don Garlits
Download or read book Big Daddy Don Garlits Tales from the Drag Strip written by Don Garlits and published by Sports Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2004-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drag racing icon Garlits gives a humorous and insightful first-person accountof the many memorable experiences he has lived through in his half-century ofnitromethane-fueled exploits.
Book Synopsis Don Garlits's Tales from the Drag Strip by : Don Garlits
Download or read book Don Garlits's Tales from the Drag Strip written by Don Garlits and published by Sports Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work offers a first-person account of the memorable experiences the drag racing icon Don Big Daddy Garlits has lived through in his half-century of nitromethane-fueled exploits.
Book Synopsis King of the Dragsters by : Don Garlits
Download or read book King of the Dragsters written by Don Garlits and published by . This book was released on 1970-01-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 'Big Daddy' written by Don Garlits and published by Don Garlits. This book was released on 1990 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biography of Big Daddy Don Garlits, a farm boy who grew up during World War II on a dairy in Tampa, Florida. The story of how this young man without formal education, but with tremendous natural mechanical ability, became the greatest drag racer of all time. It is an American hero story told during a time when heroes in America are in short supply. Ride with Donald Glenn Garlits, the 18 year old, fresh out of high school, careening down the back roads & abandoned air strips in the Tampa Bay area in his souped up 40 Ford convertible. Follow Don up the ladder of success from the jeers of the Wild Californians, to the cheers of his fans during his first national win at Indianapolis Raceway Park in 1964. Feel the dejection & hurt of failure after months of hard work on a new idea, only to see it fail, severing part of his right foot in the process; yet come back to design the rear engine dragster, the single greatest accomplishment of his entire career. Experience the thrill & the terror of some of the worst high speed crashes in the history of drag racing. In the beginning, the crowds & competitors hurled such insults as swamp rat, garbage Don, etc., but finally they screamed Big Daddy, we love you!! It didn't happen overnight, in fact the book spans a 40 year career in the life of this remarkable man who was deemed at his high school graduation most likely to fail. Don Garlits married Patricia Bieger in 1953, together they raised two fine daughters, Gay Lyn & Donna.
Book Synopsis Don Garlits and His Cars by : Don Garlits
Download or read book Don Garlits and His Cars written by Don Garlits and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The story of Don Garlits' rise from a simple young man working at the family dairy in Sulphur Springs, Florida, to a world famous race car driver. In Don's own words, "I did it with my cars, I loved working on cars." my stepfather, Alexander James "AJ" Weir, realized this when I was at an early age and pointed me in the right direction. This story spans many, many years from 1933 to 2013"--Title Page page 5.
Book Synopsis Shirley Muldowney's Tales from the Track by : Shirley Muldowney
Download or read book Shirley Muldowney's Tales from the Track written by Shirley Muldowney and published by Sports Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2005 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1970s, when the idea of a woman competing successfully with men in any form of motorsports was 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. She won the prestigious NHRA U.S. Nationals in 1982 and, before her retirement at the end of the 2003 season, had become one of the most recognized and celebrated race car drivers in history, male or female. She was recently inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in Novi, Michigan, and has been the subject of countless features in newspapers, magazines, and network television from coast to coast. Shirley Muldowney's Tales from the Track is an unabashed collection of stories, anecdotes, and opinions in her own unvarnished style of storytelling, laced with her straightforward, take-no-prisoners approach. She has spent her entire lifetime telling it like it is, standing up to the establishment, and refusing to do anything other than in her own way. Politically correct? Hardly. Readers are encouraged to strap themselves in when she shares her manytales. It's the whole truth and nothing but the truth according to the legendary Shirley Muldowney.
Book Synopsis Tales from a Top Fuel Dragster by : Shirley Muldowney
Download or read book Tales from a Top Fuel Dragster written by Shirley Muldowney and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shirley Muldowney not only broke the gender barrier in the National Hot Rod Association in the 1970s, but she also completely rewrote the record books in Top Fuel Eliminator, drag racing’s quickest and fastest category. She was the first woman to receive a Top Fuel license from the NHRA. Between 1977 and 1982, Muldowney won three NHRA Top Fuel championships—the first female ever to win a title in any professional motorsport. She won the prestigious NHRA US Nationals in 1982 and was recently inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame. By the time she retired at the end of the 2003 season, Muldowney had become one of the most recognized and celebrated race car drivers in history. Tales from a Top-Fuel Dragster is an unabashed collection of stories, anecdotes, and opinions in Muldowney’s own unvarnished style of storytelling, laced with her straightforward, take-no-prisoners approach. She has spent her entire lifetime telling it like it is, standing up to the establishment, and refusing to do anything other than in her own way. Politically correct? Hardly. Readers are encouraged to strap themselves in when she shares her many tales. It’s the whole truth and nothing but the truth according to the legendary Shirley Muldowney.
Book Synopsis High Performance by : Robert C. Post
Download or read book High Performance written by Robert C. Post and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a firsthand history of the sport, this book takes a detailed look at all aspects of drag racing: the sport, the business, and tracks the innovations that permitted racers to disprove the "laws of physics". 147 halftones.
Book Synopsis Don "The Snake" Prudhomme: My Life Beyond the 1320 by : Elana Scherr
Download or read book Don "The Snake" Prudhomme: My Life Beyond the 1320 written by Elana Scherr and published by CarTech Inc. This book was released on 2020-10-16 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don "The Snake" Prudhomme reveals for the first time ever his incredible life and career on and off of the drag strip.
Imagine spending a year with Don "The Snake" Prudhomme, having coffee together and talking about his life, his racing, his friends, and his family. He’d tell you about how he rose from being a high school drop-out who was painting cars to a respected Top Fuel dragster driver and successful businessman. You’d hear how he toured the country with Tommy Ivo and "The Hawaiian" Roland Leong, racing all the legends from "Big Daddy" Don Garlits to "The Golden Greek" [Chris] Karamesines. He'd say how he met Tom McEwen and recall how they became the Snake and the Mongoose, leading to a career in Funny Cars that netted him four championships in a row. He'd talk about the thrill of first wins and owning his own teams but also the struggles of bad seasons, crashes and fires, broken parts, and broken contracts. Along the way, he’d speak about the people in his life, such as engine-builder Keith Black and NHRA president Wally Parks, and those who were killed in the wild and unpredictable sport of nitro racing. It wouldn’t be only racing, though. Prudhomme would share lessons he learned about business and life from such varied sources as a neighbor in Granada Hills to Ford GT40 driver Dan Gurney. He also would talk about the importance of family: how his wife, Lynn, and daughter, Donna, changed his world and how finding out about his African-American roots opened his eyes to a culture and inheritance he’d always wanted. This is the experience you’ll get in Don "The Snake" Prudhomme: My Life Beyond the 1320.
Book Synopsis King of the Dragsters by : Don Garlits
Download or read book King of the Dragsters written by Don Garlits and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Big Daddy written by Don Garlits and published by . This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Don Garlits, R.E.D. Part 2 by : Mickey Bryant
Download or read book Don Garlits, R.E.D. Part 2 written by Mickey Bryant and published by . This book was released on 2010-01-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a journey thru a period of time for drag racing fastest class, top fuel dragsters. It covers a mere eighteen months, broken down in two books, Part 1, and Part 2., that together represent a miniscule portion of the sport that started in the early fifties and is going strong today. The people featured within these two separate accounts, shaped and maneuvered the sport like no other time frame in the sport's history. They were influenced by how it was done in the past but they pushed thru technical boundaries that seemingly existed at the time to launch a new chapter that spawned the beast that we see today - the rear engine dragster (R.E.D.). If necessity was the mother of invention then its father was creativity.Part 1 opens with the race at Lions Drag Strip in Long Beach, Ca., March 8th, 1970 and Part 2 ends with the Indy Nationals September 7th, 1971. The events of these historic two days are chronicled and examined in detail as never before, showing what really happened at the sports most famous venues of the day, and dispelling rumors and flat out misunderstandings of what went down there.They were also the very first and the very last race by drag racing's most revered rear engine dragster - Don Garlits' Swamp Rat 14.In Part 1, we feature the March, 8th, 1970 race that put Garlits in the hospital and on the sideline. That race for him lasted only 40 feet. Part 1 ends right where the secret build of the new R.E.D. is completed and the Garlits Boys are packing up to head out west to showcase this new design. This is a complete and stand alone account of all that happened in the year 1970.Part 2 takes you through the step by step account of this historic machine, Swamp Rat 14, and ends with the Indy Nationals September 7th, 1971, and Garlits' astonishing elapsed time that lasted 40 years, and counting.
Book Synopsis Big Daddy by : Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing, Incorporated
Download or read book Big Daddy written by Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing, Incorporated and published by . This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Three Weeks in March by : Mickey Bryant
Download or read book Three Weeks in March written by Mickey Bryant and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three weeks in 1959 when Don Garlits was paid to travel from Tampa, Florida to Southern California to take on the very best to see who really was the fastest car on the planet. Initial failure turned to triumph for Garlits, and then it was back home. Not satisfied, the powers of the west coast drag racing scene paid him in December to do it again. That one day race in December, considered by most historians the greatest one day event ever, featured the showdown between Art Chrisman and Don Garlits, a rivalry that brewed all year long. Read about both trips to SoCal for Team Garlits and all the incredible happenings in between - including the setting and resetting of new world records by the top guns of the day during that year of 1959. Loaded with color pictures taken right at the tracks during that year plus headlines and stories from Drag News Magazine, the drag racing bible of the day. Don Garlits race secrets are revealed and recollections from "Big Daddy" himself.
Download or read book "TV" Tommy Ivo written by Tom Cotter and published by Motorbooks. This book was released on 2011-03-04 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2011 International Automotive Media Gold Award Winner In the early 1960s, Tommy Ivo had the world in the palm of his hands. Still a young man, he was already a star of television and film with a promising Hollywood future ahead of him. Then his producers told him he had to quit drag racing. He quit the entertainment industry instead. This is the official story of Ivo’s incredible life and racing career. Readers will follow “TV” Tommy as he becomes the most ambitious drag racer in the nation, building his own cars in the garage behind his Burbank home; becoming the first driver to pilot his dragsters to 170, 175, and 180 miles per hour and towing his cars to match races at small-town drag strips across the United States. Always the showman, Ivo pioneered promotional techniques that are today taken for granted. In this regard especially, his impact on the sport cannot be understated, and his legacy is detailed in this incredible bio of one of drag racing’s most irrepressible characters.
Download or read book Drag Racing written by Alex Monnig and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though it is a short, straight 1/4 mile race, a drag race still manages to be entertaining! Young readers will love learning about the big motors, fast vehicles, talented drivers, and exciting races. This title takes a close look at the history, the vehicles, the events, and the stars who make drag racing unique. Complete with informative sidebars, a photo diagram, and much more. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. SportsZone is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
