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Northern California Drag Racing

Author : Steve Reyes
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467108170
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Northern California Drag Racing written by Steve Reyes and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-02 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized drag racing began in Northern California in 1949 thanks to World War II veterans with a need for speed. Towns like Redding, Lodi, Fresno, Bakersfield, and Fremont would host their own drag events featuring homebuilt jalopies. Anyone with a driver's license and a paid entry fee could participate, and as the cars got more sophisticated and faster, more and more spectators came to watch the local speed demons. By the 1960s, a metamorphosis began with the introduction of the slingshot-style dragsters. For the next 12 years, the slingshot dragster was the king of the quarter mile, and it made stars of Gary Ormsby, Frank Bradley, Dennis Baca, and James Warren. Meanwhile, in 1965, a funny new race car challenged The King as it gained popularity in Northern California. Leading this funny car charge was a Pennsylvania transplant named Russell James Liberman. However, the golden years of Northern California drag racing came to an end in the mid-1970s. Today, only 5 out of 17 drag strips are still open. Photographer Steve Reyes journeyed into the world of Northern California drag racing in 1963 as a 15-year-old kid. Upon seeing an advertisement from the Oakland Tribune that read, Come see the nitro powered 200mph slingshot dragsters, Reyes and his father made the 23-mile trek to the Fremont drag strip. With the noise of high-powered engines filling the air, Reyes was hooked and made it his duty to capture this one-of-a-kind world on film.

The Day of the Drag Race

Author : Philip Harkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book The Day of the Drag Race written by Philip Harkins and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Quarter-Mile Chaos

Author : Steve Reyes
Publisher : CarTech Inc
ISBN 13 : 1613255942
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Quarter-Mile Chaos written by Steve Reyes and published by CarTech Inc. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relive drag racing’s dangerous past in this softcover edition of a previous best seller. Quarter-Mile Chaos looks at the treacherous side of drag racing's golden age. Almost 200 rare and stunning photographs from the late 1960s and early-to-mid 1970s capture terrifying fires, explosions, and crashes, all by-products on the quest to go faster. Quarter-Mile Chaos is full of up-close and personal documentation of the perilous task to reach the 1,320-foot mark first. Armed with just a few cameras and some film, veteran drag-racing photographer Steve Reyes shot some of the most dramatic and eye-catching pictures of these quarter-mile warriors. Reyes roamed the nation's hazardous strips in search of the perfect action photo. The result is some of the most breathtaking drag-racing imagery ever recorded, depicting out-of-control demolition and devastation during drag racing's most entertaining era.

Southern California Funny Cars

Author : Steve Reyes
Publisher : Arcadia Pub (Sc)
ISBN 13 : 9781540256867
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (568 download)

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Download or read book Southern California Funny Cars written by Steve Reyes and published by Arcadia Pub (Sc). This book was released on 2023-06-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southern California was the birthplace of organized drag racing, with the first organized race held at the Santa Ana airport in 1949 and the subsequent founding of the National Hot Rod Association in 1950. Over the next decade and a half, the dragster became the king of the quarter mile on Southern California drag strips. In 1964, veteran dragster owner/driver Jack Chrisman had an idea for something different to grace Southern California's drag strips. It was not a dragster but a stock-bodied race car using nitromethane for fuel in a supercharged engine. With the help of Gene Mooneyham, Mercury's Fran Hernandez, and sponsor Helen Sachs, Chrisman put together the world's first nitro-burning "funny car." It was a steel stock-bodied Mercury Cyclone with a supercharged 427 Ford engine running on pure nitromethane. Chrisman started the evolution that soon turned stock steel-bodied cars into fiberglass-bodied tube chassis funny cars. Southern California drag racers began to lead the way for racers all over the United States in the new funny car class.

Drag Racers

Author : Jeffrey Zuehlke
Publisher : LernerClassroom
ISBN 13 : 0822590131
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (225 download)

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Download or read book Drag Racers written by Jeffrey Zuehlke and published by LernerClassroom. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drag racing is all about pure speed. Inside and out, top fuel dragsters, funny cars, and other drag racers are built to burn off the starting line and sail across the finish line. Races take just a few seconds, but they're packed with excitement, danger, and intense competition. Even the smallest mistake can be the difference between winning and losing. In this book you will learn how the sport got its start on a lonely stretch of road near Santa Barbara, California. You'll also learn about the major classes of drag racers, how they got their start, and the drivers who push them to their limits.

High Performance

Author : Robert C. Post
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book High Performance written by Robert C. Post and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What emerges is a compelling look at the men and women who have devoted their lives to this extraordinary pursuit and a sensitive exploration of their motivations.

High Performance

Author : Robert C. Post
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801866647
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (666 download)

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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.

BAYLANDS Raceway Park FREMONT Drag Strip

Author : Dennis Mattish
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780988186149
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book BAYLANDS Raceway Park FREMONT Drag Strip written by Dennis Mattish and published by . This book was released on 2020-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of Auto Racing in Fremont California and Pleasanton California. Tracks covered are: Fremont Drag Strip, Baylands Raceway Park and Alameda County Fairgrounds.

Superfast Drag Racing

Author : J Chris Roselius
Publisher : Extreme Speed (Lerner (Tm) Spo
ISBN 13 : 1541577191
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (415 download)

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Download or read book Superfast Drag Racing written by J Chris Roselius and published by Extreme Speed (Lerner (Tm) Spo. This book was released on 2020 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Start your engines and get in gear! Exciting photos and facts will have readers turning the pages to discover the history of drag racing, what a typical race day looks like, and more about the sport.

Tales from the Drag Strip

Author : Don Garlits
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1613217552
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (132 download)

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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.

Vintage and Historic Drag Racers

Author : Robert Genat
Publisher : Motorbooks International
ISBN 13 : 9780760304358
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Vintage and Historic Drag Racers written by Robert Genat and published by Motorbooks International. This book was released on 1998 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents vintage and historic drag racing cars from 1956 through 1975, and the stories of the people who owned and raced them

Drag Racing

Author : A. T. McKenna
Publisher : ABDO & Daughters
ISBN 13 : 9781562398361
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (983 download)

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Download or read book Drag Racing written by A. T. McKenna and published by ABDO & Daughters. This book was released on 1998 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of drag racing with descriptions of the drag strip, Christmas tree lights, driver gear, racing fuel, time trials, and race day. Includes a glossary of terms.

Fire, Nitro, Rubber, and Smoke

Author : Bob McClurg
Publisher : Cartech
ISBN 13 : 9781932494372
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (943 download)

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Download or read book Fire, Nitro, Rubber, and Smoke written by Bob McClurg and published by Cartech. This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks back fondly on drag racing's greatest era with 300 of the best drag-racing photos ever taken. Tells the stories of the cars, the racers, and the events that made drag racing such a great sport. Photos cover dragsters, funny cars, gassers, altereds, pro stocks, and exhibition cars, bringing the sights, smells and sounds of the golden age of drag racing to life.

Rocky's Road

Author : Jim Rockstad
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480946877
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Rocky's Road written by Jim Rockstad and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rocky’s Road By: Jim Rockstad With more than three decades of experience in the world of hot rods, drag racing and funny cars, Jim Rockstad has a million and one stories of the races, drivers and good old days of drag racing in the Pacific Northwest. He was there in the pit when Ed “Ace” McCulloch put the Northwest racing scene on the map with his momentous win in the Northwind dragster in 1965 and from there the rest is history. Rocky’s Road is a trip down memory lane through the milestones of West Coast racing from one of the sport’s premier managers and promoters. Rockstad’s story isn’t just sports trivia—it’s also a personal memoir, showing that anyone with enough passion and luck can find success in chasing their dreams.

Lost Drag Strips II

Author : Scotty Gosson
Publisher : CarTech Inc
ISBN 13 : 1613252234
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Lost Drag Strips II written by Scotty Gosson and published by CarTech Inc. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh on the heels of the best-selling book Lost Drag Strips comes a new look at other long-lost and forgotten drag racing facilities from the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. In the first volume, the author examined the birth of drag racing and its subsequent popularity that invaded every city and community across America. Unfortunately, after the initial explosion of popularity, it waned, and various drag strips closed for a myriad of reasons. Financial pressure for the real estate they occupied, suburban sprawl, and waning participation were all reasons for the change in fortunes for the small, and even not-so-small, racetracks. The first volume was great, but readers demanded more! Lost Drag Strips II picks up where the first volume left off, covering even more tracks with archival photos of racing in the tracks' heyday, the cars that ran there, and coverage of the tracks as they exist today. This volume also includes some of the tracks that survived, those that fought off the economic demons and the urban sprawl and continue to run today. Tracks in this volume include: Fort Wainwright/Racing Lions Motorsports Park, Avenue G Drag Strip, Fremont/Baylands Drag Strip, San Fernando Drag Strip, Fontana Drag City, Inyokern Drag Strip, Kahuku Air Strip, Las Vegas Speedrome, Continental Divide Raceways, SRCA Drag Strip, Southwest Raceway, Willow Run Raceway, Minnesota Dragways, KCTA Drag Strip, Detroit Dragway, Niagara Airport Dragstrip, New York National Speedway, York US 30 Drag-O-Way, South Mountain Raceway, La Place Dragway, Yellow River Drag Strip, Thunderbolt Dragway, and more.

Drag Racing's Rebels

Author : Doug Boyce
Publisher : CarTech Inc
ISBN 13 : 161325766X
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Drag Racing's Rebels written by Doug Boyce and published by CarTech Inc. This book was released on 2023-11-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn the entire fascinating story of the American Hot Rod Association (AHRA) in this wonderfully illustrated color history. When the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) was formed in 1951 by Wally Parks, the reasoning for the formation was to "create order from chaos" by instituting safety rules and performance standards that helped legitimize the sport of drag racing. Some organization was certainly necessary. A postwar boom in automotive enthusiasm was reaching new heights, and Hot Rod magazine and the NHRA were right in the thick of it. The NHRA hosted its first drag racing event in 1953, and in 1955, the organization staged its first national event, which was simply called "The Nationals." The AHRA formed in 1956 as an alternative to the NHRA, where the drivers voted on the rules (rather than sanctioning bodies and tracks), and their influence on the sport was felt almost immediately. When the NHRA denied the use of nitromethane in 1957, the AHRA approved it. When the NHRA banned aircraft-powered dragsters in 1961, the AHRA welcomed them. When the NHRA said no to the emerging Funny Car in 1965, the AHRA said yes. When fans and racers screamed for a heads-up Super Stock category in 1968, the AHRA delivered. The AHRA was called a rebel association. Some say that it was more of an association that got things done—to the delight of fans and racers. The AHRA was on equal ground with the NHRA by the 1970s, drawing enormous crowds and racer entries.

In this fascinating history, veteran author Doug Boyce tells the story of the AHRA, the rise, the competition, the events, and the eventual downfall of the organization. After AHRA President Jim Tice passed away in 1982, internal fighting for control of the association resulted in its doom. Get the whole story here, and add this wonderful volume to your drag racing library.

"TV" Tommy Ivo

Author : Tom Cotter
Publisher : Motorbooks
ISBN 13 : 1610601270
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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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.