The Encyclopedia of Auto Racing Greats
Author | : Robert Arthur Cutter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 675 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Automobile racing |
ISBN | : 9780132752060 |
Includes 550 biographies of drivers, designers, mechanics, and engineers.
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Author | : Robert Arthur Cutter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 675 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Automobile racing |
ISBN | : 9780132752060 |
Includes 550 biographies of drivers, designers, mechanics, and engineers.
Author | : Lawrence Brooks |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Automobile racing |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sr. Julian K. Quattlebaum |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2011-03-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0820338133 |
While automobile races had been held in Europe earlier, it was not until after 1900 that organized races were held in the United States. These contests took the form of road races--usually over a series of connected links of the best roads available. The most important of the early races were held on Long Island, New York. As a result of the efforts of the Savannah Automobile Club, the International Grand Prize Race of the Automobile Club of America was held in Savannah, Georgia, for the first time in November of 1908 and was enormously successful. In 1910 and again in 1911 the most famous drivers and the finest racing cars from all over the world returned to the city for the Grand Prize Race. The 1911 event attracted thousands more who came to witness the famous Vanderbilt Cup Race, the fastest race of this length up to that time (291 miles in 3 hours and 56 minutes). Julian K. Quattlebaum was among those who lined the Savannah race course for a glimpse of the big Fiats, Loziers, and Mercedes that roared around the turns, across the finish line, and into autoracing history. He has written a new introduction to this edition and has gone through his collection of early photographs of the cars, the drivers, and the races to add to the generous selection of illustrations in the original edition.
Author | : Peter Golenbock |
Publisher | : Motorbooks |
Total Pages | : 1009 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9780760315712 |
A reference guide to the drivers, owners, races, and cars of NASCAR.
Author | : Pete Daniel |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2000-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807898910 |
This sweeping work of cultural history explores a time of startling turbulence and change in the South, years that have often been dismissed as placid and dull. In the wake of World War II, southerners anticipated a peaceful and prosperous future, but as Pete Daniel demonstrates, the road into the 1950s took some unexpected turns. Daniel chronicles the myriad forces that turned the world southerners had known upside down in the postwar period. In chapters that explore such subjects as the civil rights movement, segregation, and school integration; the breakdown of traditional agriculture and the ensuing rural-urban migration; gay and lesbian life; and the emergence of rock 'n' roll music and stock car racing, as well as the triumph of working-class culture, he reveals that the 1950s South was a place with the potential for revolutionary change. In the end, however, the chance for significant transformation was squandered, Daniel argues. One can only imagine how different southern history might have been if politicians, the press, the clergy, and local leaders had supported democratic reforms that bestowed full citizenship on African Americans--and how little would have been accomplished if a handful of blacks and whites had not taken risks to bring about the changes that did come.
Author | : Robert C. Post |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780801866647 |
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.
Author | : Bill Mooney |
Publisher | : Carlton Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9781780978215 |
An authoritative and comprehensive illustrated work of reference, which tells the story of the "sport of kings" from its earliest inception to the present day.
Author | : Timothy Miller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Automobiles, Racing |
ISBN | : 9781554074464 |
Looks at the history of drag racing, pioneers and personalities of the sport, and the different types of car classes.
Author | : Gordon Eliot White |
Publisher | : Motorbooks |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Offenhauser engines |
ISBN | : 0760319189 |
From the 1920s to through 1980, the Offenhauser and its descendants filled the grids and won race after race across the U.S. In the 1950s, entire Indy grids were made up exclusively of Offy-powered racers. Original hardcover received much acclaim, winner of the 1996 Thomas McKean Memorial award.
Author | : Rev. W. Awdry |
Publisher | : Random House Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 13 |
Release | : 1989-03-20 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 067980000X |
BERTIE THE BUS thinks he is faster than Thomas. Before you can say "Ready? Set. Go!" they're on their way. An interactive element of working wheels affixed to the book lets Thomas fans experience the great race first hand as they chug along with Thomas!