Cars - Motorsport Books
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Board Track Guts Gold & Glory (Hardcover, 1990, Dick Wallen)
Racemaker Press
US$160.59As 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...US$160.59 -
Formula One - The Australian and New Zealand Story (John Smailes)
Allen & Unwin
US$27.89The 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...US$27.89 -
Sunshine, Speed and a Surprise - The 1959 Gold Prix of the United States (signed by Joel E. Finn)
US$209.43signed 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...US$209.43 -
Roaring Roadsters - The Road to Indy (Dick Wallen)
Racemaker Press
US$90.77Roaring 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...US$90.77 -
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American Road Racing: The 1930s (Joel E. Finn)
Racemaker Press
US$97.75Road 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...US$97.75 -
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Distant Thunder - When Midgets Were Mighty (Dick Wallen)
Racemaker Press
US$104.73Distant 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...US$104.73 -
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King of the Boards - The Life and Times of Jimmy Murphy (Gary D. Doyle)
US$97.75Beginning 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...US$97.75 -
Second to One: All But for Indy (Joseph S. Freeman)
Racemaker Press
US$125.68This 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...US$125.68 -
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Lartigue et les autos de course - English and French text (Christophe Lavielle)
US$153.60Lartigue’s passion for racing cars brought to life with 150 images and diary extracts. Lartigue et les autos de course is a book that will fulfill the expectations of all car-racing lovers and surely find its favour among those who appreciate...US$153.60 -
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VANWALL - The Story of Britain's First Formula One Champions (Doug Nye)
Porter Press International
US$188.51Limited Edition - limited to 1,000 copies; signed by Doug Nye When international Grand Prix motor racing resumed following World War Two, the red cars of Italy were the dominant force, and Alfa Romeo, Ferrari and Maserati swept all before...US$188.51 -
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Rushie - Garry Rush, A Motor Racing Life - An Illustrated Autobiography (signed by Tony Loxley)
Full Throtlle
Now: US$27.23Was: US$45.35SIGNED by TONY LOXLEY Limited To 1500 Copies Only 300-plus pages hard-bound.Lavishly illustrated and designed.A true collectors item - limited edition only 'Rushie - Garry Rush A Motor Racing Life' is a stunning 300-page hard-bound...Now: US$27.23Was: US$45.35 -
Camel Trophy - The Definitive History (Nick Dimbleby)
Porter Press International
US$125.68From 1980 to 2000, Camel Trophy took more than 500 amateur competitors from 35 countries on extraordinary and challenging adventures. On most of these events, teams drove specially prepared Land Rovers to the limit and beyond in locations as varied as...US$125.68