Cars - Motorsport Books
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Fabulous Fifties: American Championship Racing (Dick Wallen)
Racemaker Press
$200.00Chronicles of the formative years of America’s post-war National Championship, when very brave and very tough young men vied for victory at Indianapolis and a host of dirt ovals, with little more than an inexpensive helmet to protect themselves...$200.00 -
Pole Position Rex Mays American Racing Driver 1931-49 (Bob Schilling)
Racemaker Press
$250.00The life of America’s most popular race driver is the focus of two decades of American Auto Racing and American life in the Great Depression, World War II and the Cold War. No greater driver ever failed to win the...$250.00 -
Seventies Championship Revolution - American Racing Championships (Dick Wallen)
Racemaker Press
$150.00The exciting history of the nearly 150 American National Championship races run in the 1970s. Seventies Championship Revolution, with a foreword by Al Unser, provides the exciting history of the nearly 150 American National Championship races run during...$150.00 -
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Riverside Raceway - Palace of Speed (Dick Wallen)
Racemaker Press
$190.00Dick Wallen revives the great memories of the Southern California championship road course. Riverside Raceway: Palace of Speed revives great memories of the extraordinary and demanding southern California championship road course that sadly closed in...$190.00 -
Board Track Guts Gold & Glory (Hardcover, 1990, Dick Wallen)
Racemaker Press
$230.00As Dick Wallen writes in his introduction to this extraordinary book, "This is a celebration of the American board speedways and the Golden Age of oval track competition for which they were largely responsible." It contains 850 black & white and...$230.00 -
Formula One - The Australian and New Zealand Story (John Smailes)
Allen & Unwin
$39.95The first, and definitive, book on Australia and New Zealand's involvement in the pinnacle of motor sport - Formula One. Since 1950, fifteen Australians and nine New Zealanders have raced in world championship Formula One, the pinnacle of motor racing...$39.95 -
Sunshine, Speed and a Surprise - The 1959 Gold Prix of the United States (signed by Joel E. Finn)
$299.95signed by: Joel Finn, 2nd hand book in good condition. This is a story of speed, challenge and championships. In the decade after World War II, in an America gone patriotic and car crazy, racing promoter Alec Ulmann created an unlikely sports car race...$299.95 -
Roaring Roadsters - The Road to Indy (Dick Wallen)
Racemaker Press
$130.00Roaring Roadsters: The Road to Indy, Dick Wallen’s acclaimed coffee table volume covers the post-World War II years when young hot-rodders hopped up their street cars to go racing on oval tracks. As it quickly proved, this very popular California...$130.00 -
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American Road Racing: The 1930s (Joel E. Finn)
Racemaker Press
$140.00Road racing in the United States was born in the early 1930s with the founding of the Automobile Racing Club of America (ARCA). By the late 1930s the crude, home built jalopies racing on back yard dirt tracks, had given way to events that featured some...$140.00 -
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Distant Thunder - When Midgets Were Mighty (Dick Wallen)
Racemaker Press
$150.00Distant Thunder: When Midgets Were Mighty, presents a thorough history of the birth and flowering of the California midget car racing craze from 1914 to 1950. Nearly 400 pages long, it is crammed with over a thousand photographs, original color paintings...$150.00 -
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King of the Boards - The Life and Times of Jimmy Murphy (Gary D. Doyle)
$140.00Beginning as a riding mechanic and young colleague for the Duesenberg Brothers and racing greats Eddie O’Donnell and Tommy Milton, Jimmy Murphy rapidly rose to become one of the greatest drivers of the 1920s. He drove championship Duesenberg and...$140.00 -
Second to One: All But for Indy (Joseph S. Freeman)
Racemaker Press
$180.00This book is a set of remarkable stories of forty champion racing drivers who but for a stroke of bad luck, an unfortunate last minute mistake, or just the intervention of fate, were never able to win America’s greatest race, the Indianapolis 500...$180.00