Books
Chris Martin’s Top Fuel Handbook
$19.95
Available nowhere else, this autographed book contains everything you always wanted to know about Top Fuel, but didn’t know who to ask. Chris Martin wrote for National Dragster for 20 years and is an acknowledged historian of drag racing. (If Chris doesn’t know the answer, then you really don’t need to either.) A limited number of copies are available as this book is now out of print.
Signed by Chris Martin himself.
$24.299
$19.95 per copy.
Three Weeks in March
$20.00
By Mickey Bryant
Three weeks in March of 1959 in Bakersfield, California, were the beginning of modern “National event” drag racing. Don Garlits arrived from Florida for the March Meet and the sport was changed forever. Mickey Bryant was a witness to the events of those historic Three Weeks in March and shares his memories along with many black and white and color photos. If you remember the time or want to learn what it was like, you’ll enjoy this book.
Match Race Madness
$35
by Grady Bryant
Back in the early 1960’s there was a bunch of racers in Texas who lived to race. The main thing on their minds was how to get their cars to go quicker and faster. They didn’t follow the rules, they bent the rules! Their innovations came so fast that the sanctioning bodies couldn’t keep up with them, so they began making deals to race with each individual track. The car manufacturers took notice and started coming up with modifications of their own. And so the Match Race Wars began.
Grady Bryant was one of these pioneer match racers. If you want to know some history of the sport, along with some great racing stories and a glimpse at the personalities back in the day, you’ve got to read “Match Race Madness.” Signed by the author!
LIMITED QUANTITY
Quarter Mile Chaos: Images of Drag Racing Mayhem
$26.37
(Price subject to change)
(Hardcover)
by Steve Reyes
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 of the quest to go faster. Quarter-Mile Chaos is full of up close and personal documentation of the perilous task of reaching the 1,320-foot mark first. Armed with just a couple 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.
Von Dutch: The Art, The Myth, The Legend
$39.95
Signed by the Author!
Von Dutch is one of the most interesting characters in hot rod and popular culture history. Considered the founder of “modern” pinstriping, he was a prominent character in many of the rodding magazines of the late ‘50s, and his fame endured long after he apparently tired of it. Besides being a striper, he was a gifted artist, machinist, and gun- and knife-smith. Using stories and quotes culled from interviews, vintage photos, and images of the art and other works he left behind, this book chronicles Kenneth Howard’s life from pinstriping beatnik to bus-dwelling hermit. Where it can, this book sets the record straight on Von Dutch the man, but in many cases conflicting stories will serve to illustrate the contrary, colorful, and sometimes difficult nature of Von Dutch the legend. This book is a must-have for fans of hot rodding and hot rod culture!
Top Fuel Dragsters of the 1970s
$29.95
A PHOTO ARCHIVE
The early ‘70s were a pivotal time for rear engine dragsters. “Slingshots” were front engine fire-breathing diggers where the driver sat just three feet behind the motor. This set-up proved to be very dangerous, so in 1970 at Lions Drag Strip “Big Daddy” Don Garlits vowed, after a horrific transmission explosion in his slingshot Wynns Charger, that he would formulate a design that would put the fuel motor behind him. The emergence of the rear-engine dragster rekindled the interest in Top Fuel Eliminator class. Legendary championship drivers like TV Tommy Ivo, Tony Nancy, Gary Beck, Don Prudhomme, Jerry Ruth, Carl Olson, Tom McEwen, Shirley Muldowney, James Warren, Jeb Allen, Herm Peterson, Steve Carbone and many more, are all portrayed in sensational fire-and-smoke belching action at the race track.
Drag Racing Funny Cars of the 1970s
$29.95
A PHOTO ARCHIVE
See the cars raced by many of the legendary names in drag racing, including Don Prudhomme, Tom McEwen and Jim Dunn. Action shots as well as clear detailed under the shell shots in the pits. Various makers and models of cars that have been reconstructed as funny cars--including Camaros, Mustangs, Javelins, Dodge Chargers, and Firebirds.
Drag Sport Illustrators
$18.00
A Pictorial of 1970
Pro Stock Action Out of the Past
Limited edition (only 3,000 copies printed) 52-page perfect-bound volume containing over 100 black and white photos with color wraps covering all the major players in the 1970 inaugural year of heads-up doorslammer Pro Stock drag racing, including Sox & Martin, Bill “Grumpy” Jenkins, “Dandy” Dick Landy, Wally Booth, “Dyno” Don Nicholson. Highlighted with 1970 photography by noted photographers including Jim Kelly, Eric Brooks, Marty Johnson, Jere Alhadeff and others from the Match Race Madness archives with accompanying captions provided by journalists Al Kirschenbaum and Geoff Stunkard.
How to Build High-Performance Ignition Systems
$12.95
Domestic and Import 4, 6, and 8-Cylinder Cars (S-A Design)
By Todd Ryden
How to Build High-Performance Ignition Systems is the complete guide to understanding automotive ignition systems, from old-school points and condensers to modern computer-controlled distributorless systems, from bone-stock to totally aftermarket. Author Todd Ryden leads you through the various components, systems, and subsystems, explaining the theory behind the operation and how the parts work with each other to achieve the ultimate goal of efficient combustion. Coils, wires, spark plugs, distributors, magnetos, inductive systems, CD ignitions, multiple-spark systems, computer ignition controls, rev limiters - all are covered for both street and race applications. This book will help you understand how your car’s ignition works, and it will help you choose the right components for your car’s performance needs, whether it’s a ‘55 Chevy with a 265 small-block or a 2003 Cobra with a 4.6-liter modular motor.
Diggers, Funnies, Gassers & Altereds
$45.00
In the ‘60s, drag racing evolved from a “run what ya brung” grassroots effort to a full-blown professional motorsport. Along the way, it created some of the most exciting racing and racecars ever built and Bob McClurg was there with a camera. McClurg is an accomplished magazine writer and photographer, but he’s best known for his drag racing images of the ‘60s and ‘70s--his lens captured all the action of the Roadsters, Gassers, Altereds, Top Fuel, Funny Cars, Pro/Stocks, and even the modern age of nostalgia drag racing. Now for the first time, McClurg’s best drag racing photos are brought together in one volume--a book that every drag racing fan will have to see. With more than 350 color and black and white photos, this book is an exciting visual history of the sport’s most exciting years--the Golden Age of drag racing. Foreword by John Force, 12-time NHRA Funny Car season points champion.
Infinity Over Zero by Cole Coonce
$17.95
Infinity Over Zero - meditations on maximum velocity
We’ve got a limited number of First Editions of a book that has a different perspective that we love.
No, you won’t find it on Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble will tell you it’s a special order that will take 4 to 6 weeks.
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You want it.
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