- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Motorbooks International (29 Oct 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0760317836
- ISBN-13: 978-0760317839
- Product Dimensions: 26.4 x 25.4 x 3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,332,767 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"SAH Journal - "for the Society of Automotive Historians, October/November 2005 (circ.: unavailable) "It's exceedingly difficult for me to understand how a book so wonderfully comprehensive can be so very entertaining. How could such a book crammed with hard facts and cold figures and exact measurements be such a magic-carpet ride back to the halcyon days of American road racing? I'll just answer my own question if you don't mind. 'Let Harold Pace and Mark Brinker loose to research and write "Vintage American Road"" Racing Cars 1950-1970" and you have a real masterwork.'"
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This book takes an in-depth look at more than 50 race car manufacturers and more than 100 racing specials. Many of these have never before been covered in book form. Vintage American Road Racing Cars takes an encyclopedic approach, providing vintage and modern photography, specifications, and a narrative history for each car or manufacturer. Knockout photos of period-appropriate memorabilia, tools, etc, add to the nostalgic feel of this high-quality book. Vintage racing is gaining in popularity every year. According to Victory Lane magazine, vintage races are attended by about 1.5 million people in the U.S. each year. Around 5,500 people own a vintage race car in the U.S., but, including crew and workers, about 22,000 Americans participate in vintage racing at some level. Another 20,000 participants live in Europe and Asia.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Vintage American Road Racing Cars, 1960 - 70
21 July 2005
Format:Hardcover
This is a wonderful book full of information and pictures of forgotten (and remembered) race cars from my younger days. These are the Autos I grew up watching run from my vantage point as an SCCA flagman...back in the days when the flag people stood ON the edge of the track, not hidden in some bunker safely out of the way.
The writers / researchers have done a great job of digging up some history on some of the more obscure specials that made the races entertaining and kept us going back "at the barn" on our own Hot rod, Jag powered and framed, plastic bodied, SPECIAL; which did eventually get built, but never made it to Pikes Peak
the aim of the project.
The writers even dug up a bit of info on a couple of cars I remember well, but have not seen mentioned anywhere else; the "Purina Checkerboard Special" as we all called it, and Jim Sanders' "FOMOCO Special", both of which are in my old vintage racing films from Galveston, Mansfield, and Eagle Mountain Lake races.
The book has been read from cover to cover, and will again befor going on the shelf with the other family keepsakes.
The writers / researchers have done a great job of digging up some history on some of the more obscure specials that made the races entertaining and kept us going back "at the barn" on our own Hot rod, Jag powered and framed, plastic bodied, SPECIAL; which did eventually get built, but never made it to Pikes Peak
the aim of the project.
The writers even dug up a bit of info on a couple of cars I remember well, but have not seen mentioned anywhere else; the "Purina Checkerboard Special" as we all called it, and Jim Sanders' "FOMOCO Special", both of which are in my old vintage racing films from Galveston, Mansfield, and Eagle Mountain Lake races.
The book has been read from cover to cover, and will again befor going on the shelf with the other family keepsakes.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
A Great Book from Guys Who Lived It
8 July 2005
Format:Hardcover
I've been racing since the sixties and at one time or another have either owned or raced against a lot of these cars. You can tell by the writing that these guys are not just out to do a vintage car coffee table book, but to write a real, passionate and amazingly complete book that you will wind up buying at least two copes of... one for the library, and one for the shop. It's a terrific book... You can tell that they lived the life and can really tell a story with kindness and humor.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
from the website of Victory Lane magazine
18 Nov 2004
Format:Hardcover
This review was posted by www.victorylane.com, the website of Victory Lane magazine, on November 15, 2004. Victory Lane is a vintage and historic racing news magazine.
"Auto racing of the 1950s and 1960s set the inspiration for today's vintage racing scene. One of the best books on the American Road Racing scene of the 1950s and 1960s is just out in time for the Holidays and the review copy just arrived at Victory Lane Magazine. 'Vintage American Road Racing Cars, 1950-1970' is by noted author, vintage racer and automotive historian Harold Pace and associate Mark R. Brinker. The book covers "The way we were," period rules, racing car manufacturers, hundreds of American Specials of the period, Engine swap specials, American racing kit car manufacturers, American racing engines, racing chassis and a great appendix. It will be great for those new to the sport, those who were there, officials and writers, as well as a terrific holiday gift for any racer. So well written, researched and with great photos, it just has to be the 'Racing Book of the Year'...."
"Auto racing of the 1950s and 1960s set the inspiration for today's vintage racing scene. One of the best books on the American Road Racing scene of the 1950s and 1960s is just out in time for the Holidays and the review copy just arrived at Victory Lane Magazine. 'Vintage American Road Racing Cars, 1950-1970' is by noted author, vintage racer and automotive historian Harold Pace and associate Mark R. Brinker. The book covers "The way we were," period rules, racing car manufacturers, hundreds of American Specials of the period, Engine swap specials, American racing kit car manufacturers, American racing engines, racing chassis and a great appendix. It will be great for those new to the sport, those who were there, officials and writers, as well as a terrific holiday gift for any racer. So well written, researched and with great photos, it just has to be the 'Racing Book of the Year'...."
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