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| Author | : Sigur E. Whitaker |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 247 |
| Release | : 2014-04-22 |
| Genre | : Transportation |
| ISBN | : 1476614938 |
Almost unknown when in 1945 he purchased the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and its famous race, Tony Hulman soon became a household name in auto racing circles. He is credited not only with saving the Speedway from becoming a residential housing development but also with reinvigorating auto racing in the United States. Until his purchase of the Speedway, Hulman had not been involved in auto racing; he was the CEO of Hulman & Company, a wholesale grocer. An astute businessman, Hulman made Clabber Girl Baking Powder a national brand and successfully led the reorientation of the family fortunes to include a range of businesses including a beer company, a Coca-Cola franchise, a broadcast empire, and real estate and gas companies. This biography of Hulman covers his many ventures, particularly the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Indianapolis 500, and his philanthropy.
| Author | : Jane Carroll Routte |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 136 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780738533322 |
Racing crowds and excitement describe the Racing Capital of the World. Speedway, Indiana is home to the Indianapolis 500, Nascar's Brickyard 400, and Formula One's U.S. Gran Prix. But Speedway is more than a town that surrounds the most famous automobile racing track in the world. The city is proud of its quality schools, and residents have prospered from the businesses in the area. Civic pride runs strong through this community where generations of families have remained in the same neighborhoods, and sometimes in the same house.
| Author | : Seth Bramson |
| Publisher | : Boston Mills Press |
| Total Pages | : 364 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Railroads |
| ISBN | : 9781550463583 |
A revised and expanded illustrated history of the railroad from its inception, through the building of the Key West extension, to the present day.
| Author | : Robert Edelstein |
| Publisher | : ABRAMS |
| Total Pages | : 302 |
| Release | : 2006-03-28 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1590205626 |
“A superbly researched and engagingly written biography” of NASCAR legend Curtis Turner, known as the Babe Ruth of stock car racing (Sports Illustrated). Curtis Turner’s life embodied everything that makes NASCAR the biggest spectator sport in American history; the adrenaline rush of the races, the potential for danger at every turn, and the charismatic, outrageous personality of a winner. Turner created drama at the racetrack and in his personal life, living the American Dream several times over before he died a violent and mysterious death at the age of forty-six. In gripping prose, and with access to the files of Turner’s widow, sports writer and author of NASCAR Generations Robert Edelstein offers the first complete chronicle of Turner’s life. From his days as a teenage moonshine runner in Virginia, through millions earned in fearless finance deals, to his incredible comeback after four years of being banned from the NASCAR circuit, Full Throttle lets you ride shotgun with the legend.
| Author | : John Youk |
| Publisher | : Meredith Books |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Cooking |
| ISBN | : 9780696226878 |
Contains interviews and stories with celebrity drivers on the NASCAR racetrack, including Kyle Petty, Sterling Marlin, and others. This book also features recipes including appetisers, entrees, sides, and desserts, each illustrated with colour photos.
| Author | : Ralph Kramer |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 437 |
| Release | : 2009-03-07 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 1440219281 |
"In Indianapolis . . . racing is religion. The Speedway is our temple. That's the best way I can explain my worship for Indianapolis." --Mario Andretti, racing legend Officially licensed in cooperation with the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indianapolis Motor Speedway: 100 Years of Racing tells the compelling story of the most renowned racing venue in the world, capturing moments, big and small, that mark the Speedway's first century and spotlight the people who made the speedway what it is today.
| Author | : Bethany Campbell |
| Publisher | : Harlequin |
| Total Pages | : 220 |
| Release | : 2009-08-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1426837585 |
The Halesboro Speedway has been in Lori Garland's family for generations. And thanks to a last-minute offer, she may be able to save the debt-ridden race track. Then she discovers who her mystery buyer is—sports agent Kane Ledger, the bad-boy rebel she loved and lost. The guy from the wrong side of the tracks likes being in the driver's seat for the first time in his life. Now Kane can show his North Carolina hometown—and the girl who turned her back on him—what a success he has become. But seeing Lori again is opening old wounds…and rekindling desire. Is history about to repeat itself? Or can Kane and Lori restore the race track to its former glory and become the winning team they were meant to be?
| Author | : Len Kasper |
| Publisher | : Dorrance Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 229 |
| Release | : 2016-10-27 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 1480973661 |
SPENCER SPEEDWAY LEGENDS 1957-1977 by Len Kasper SPENCER SPEEDWAY LEGENDS 1957-1977 was written using notes and journals kept by the author, and it tells an in-depth chronology of a racetrack in a suburb of Rochester, New York, over a twenty-year period. The storyline follows the drivers, owners, promoters, officials, and race crews that made this incredible history possible. It includes a multitude of behind-the-scenes information and personal stories with rare photographs from the author and from the racing families themselves. For those who lived through the period, it is a nostalgic trip back in time. For others, it will be a compelling journey through time where local tracks were evolving from jalopy tracks to professional racing circuits, and their drivers rose to national prominence.
| Author | : Larry Upton |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 132 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780738585178 |
Phoenix's Manzanita Speedway, the last of the big dirt tracks located near the central corridor of a major metropolitan area, is now gone. The track opened in the early 1950s when Jack Holloway, president of the Arizona Jalopy Racing Association, along with Avery Doyle and Gene Gunn, set about convincing Rudy Everett and Larry Meskimen to convert their unprofitable dog-racing operation into a quarter-mile dirt track. On August 25, 1951, Everett and Meskimen beamed with excitement as Manzy opened to an overflowing crowd. They had tapped into America's post-World War II craze for automobiles and found their own Lost Dutchman Gold Mine in the process. Manzanita Speedway dominated dirt-track racing in Phoenix and was heralded as one of the top five dirt tracks in the United States. Manzy became an integral part of the racing culture in Phoenix, and its sale and closure in 2009 created a sense of lingering disappointment.
| Author | : Humphrey Muller |
| Publisher | : iUniverse |
| Total Pages | : 454 |
| Release | : 2000-04 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0595095437 |
Harry Denton is a middle-aged professor who leaves his secure post at a London university on account of the sense of failure and embarrassment caused by his wife Anne’s mounting debts. An inheritance left to him by his father enables him to start a new life by buying a small hotel in the Scottish Borders. But in this new context his marriage to Anne proves to be just as hopeless and loveless. He escapes through flights of fancy, frequently contemplating suicide, and becomes obsessed with one of his guests—Eleanor, who introduces him to the ideas of James Redfield in The Celestine Prophecy. Although, ironically, she comes across as a pretty simpleton married to an uncouth double-glazing salesman, she expresses the thinking that, in time, will transform Denton’s life. It is not before he drifts into the violent world of Apartheid South Africa that he finds his dream.
