Books
Bobby Allison - A Racer's Racer
By Bobby Allison with Tim Packman
Bobby Allison, one of NASCAR's 50 greatest drivers, the 1983 Winston Cup Series champion, is a true legend of the sport. Bobby is a self-made legend--not much ever was handed to him that he didn't earn through talent and determination.
This book is a collection of his favorite stories and happenings that occurred during his illustrious career. And, the best part about all these stories is they are all told in his own words. When Bobby Allison tells a story, people stop and listen. If you're looking for a smile or laugh from a true racing legend, then this book is for you.
Also Included is a companion audio CD of Allison interviews and great moments from his career
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Donnie Allison: As I Recall
by Donnie Allison with Jimmy Creed
Donnie Allison was always the "other" brother of the famous NASCAR
racing duo.
Overshadowed by Bobby, Donnie often did not get his due for being an outstanding
racer in his own right.
Many stories make the rounds about Donnie Allison and often when they are
re-told, the circumstances aren’t related the way Donnie recalls them.
That’s why he wanted to do a book. "I’ve got lots of stories to tell,
and I want to tell them the way I remember them," Donnie says. Now he’s
done just that.
Hard cover, 192 pages, 8-page photo insert.
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I'LL NEVER BE LAST
AGAIN
My
journey from dirt-poor dairy farmer to NASCAR National Champion
to Lifelong Entrepreneur
by Bill Wimble with Lew Boyd
The two-time NASCAR National Sportsman Champion spins tales of his incredible
journey from a New York dairy farm near the Canadian border to the short tracks
and superspeedways along the East Coast, to his honored career as an
entrepreneur in New York and Florida. Hard cover, 200-plus pages, 130
black and white photos.
Send all questions to: davesracing@sbcglobal.net
Langhorne! No Man's Land
by L.
Spencer Riggs
May of 2009 this book won the "Book of the Year" by the American Auto Racing Writers &
Broadcasters Associations. (AARWBA)
This highly anticipated book covers the entire history of one the world’s
toughest one-mile speedways, from its inception in 1926 to its closing in 1971.
Covers the midgets, big cars, champ cars, motorcycles, stock cars, and modifieds
that raced there and includes sidebars on drivers. This
HARD COVER
560-page book,
illustrated with over 1,000 photos – posed, action, head shots, programs, and
memorabilia. Many of the photos have never been published before.
Win It or Wear It
by Joyce Standridge
WIN IT OR WEAR IT is a headlong rush into the wild world of sprint cars,
the pinnacle of racing on America's dirt tracks. It is a world without pretense,
loaded with hair-raising risk, relentless work, bleary highway miles, and
fleeting moments of glory.
Joyce Standridge profiles the sport, mid-20th century to present, illustrating
it with hundreds of captivating images from drivers’ personal files and many
of racing’s foremost photographers. The soul of WIN IT OR WEAR IT, however, is
in the intimate and heartfelt interviews with some of the most colorful and
legendary characters ever to wheel a sprinter. Hear the memories and share the
laughter with Bobby Allen, Shane Carson, Richard “Gas Man” Griffin, Johnny
Herrera, Hooker Hood, Skip Jackson, Bubby Jones, Lenard McCarl, Lealand
McSpadden, Curt Michael, Lynn Paxton, Daryn Pittman, Jimmy Sills, Mares
Stellfox, Gary Wright, and more. Foreword by Dick Berggren. 256 pages, 375
B&W photos.
Lone Wolf
by Doug
Wolfgang with Dave Argabright
Doug Wolfgang, winner of five Knoxville Nationals, is one of the finest sprint
car drivers of all time; Dave Argabright is one of the finest writers.
This is a brand new and haunting volume, full of the
intensity, triumph, tragedy, and controversy so much a part of the sport.
Hard cover, 300 pages, color and B&W photos
(GREAT PHOTOS)
Lancaster Heroes
A Look Back at the Golden Age of Racing in Western NY
by John Bisci
John Bisci, Gordon Reinig, and Mark
Southcott have collaborated to produce this 128 page history of one of the
country’s greatest asphalt modified tracks, 1966-1976.
Covers Evans, Troyer, Treichlers, Hoag, Bodine, hundreds more.
Over 300 B & W photos. Excellent reference material for restorers and car
builders.
The Old Master: the Frankie Schneider Story
with Dennis Keenan
Dennis Keenan has done an extraordinary job in recapturing the long and colorful
racing life of Frankie Schneider, the East Coast’s undisputed King of the
Modifieds. The story starts at Flemington, NJ in 1947 in a battered ’37 Ford
coach with numbers drawn in lipstick. It weaves year by year to the present,
including Grand National, convertible, open wheel, and road racing adventures,
all over the country. It ends up with Frankie’s surprise 80th birthday. It
becomes crystal clear to the reader that, regardless what happens to racing in
the future, there will never be another Frankie Schneider. Soft cover, black and
white photography, 184 pages
Steady Eddie! Memories of Ed Flemke
Modified Racing’s Fastest Professor
Edited & annotated
by
Bones Bourcier
Rivals, teammates,
friends, and family members recall one of America’s most influential
short-trackers, a man who won hundreds of features in modified
racing’s glory days.
Contributors include NASCAR Cup winners Pete Hamilton and Ron Bouchard,
legendary team owner Junie Donlavey, modified icons Gene Bergin and Bob
Judkins, broadcaster/promoter Jack Arute, and many more. Soft
Cover
Fireball: Legends Don't Fall
From the Sky
By Godwin Kelly
This
is the story of an complex and amazing individual who happened to be one of the
greatest race car drivers of his time. The glory days of racing serve as the
back drop for a stormy love triangle that was the talk of the tiny resort
village of Daytona Beach during the late 50's and early '60s. Soft cover,
7” x 9”, 212 pages.
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Cool Cars Square
Roll Bars (2006)
Edited by Bernie Shuman
Photo's and
Recollections of Fifties Hot Rodding in New England, second edition. Soft cover,
239 pages, Black & white photos.
PAVED TRACK DIRT TRACK
PAVED TRACK DIRT TRACK author
Lew Boyd chose Old Bridge and Nazareth to exemplify the heart of East Coast
modified racing. One asphalt and the other dirt, the two notorious speedways
both ran on Sunday nights, usually open competition. Each attracted road
warriors and outlaws from Maine to Florida, as well as a dedicated core of
homegrown heroes. Boyd conducted more than 100 interviews with living legends
like Mario Andretti, Frankie Schneider, Pete Frazee, Wally Dallenbach, Tommy
Hager, Gil Hearne, Bob Pickell, and Buzzie Reutimann, as well as capturing the
stories of many whose lives ended tragically on the race track, like Jackie
McLaughlin, Otto Harwi, and Mike Grbac. Then there are tales of the feisty
Eastern Bandits like Ed Flemke and Denny Zimmerman and the NASCAR “drop ins”
like Ned Jarrett, Bobby Allison, and Fireball Roberts, who came to test their
mettle on these challenging tracks.
PAVED TRACK DIRT TRACK covers the evolution of racing from just after World War
II right up to the 1990s. The formative years were gritty, colorful, and
dangerous, presenting a kind of racing that would never be permitted or possible
today. The book includes 330 evocative photographs, many borrowed from private
scrapbooks and collections and never before published. Soft Cover
Richie! The fast Life and Times of NASCAR's Greatest Modified Driver By
Bones Bourcier
From farm boy to nine-time
NASCAR National Champion, Richie Evans raced through life in the fast lane.
Motorsports biographer Bones Bourcier was along for much of the ride as a
reporter, observer and friend, and now he tells the complete and unabridged
story of the man voted “NASCAR's greatest modified driver.”
Weaving together
over 200 photographs and excerpts from hundreds of hours of interviews with
competitors, crew members, friends and family members, “RICHIE!” takes us on
a virtual journey back to the time when modifieds ruled and Evans was King.
Soft cover, over 350 pages.
BUGSY-The Life and Times
of Bugs Stevens, three-time NASCAR
National Modified Champion By Bones Bourcier
Modified fans everywhere know the
legendary name Bugsy Stevens, and his amazing story has at last been told.
Whether tooling around the tiny bull rings in Texas while in the service, or
driving the famous NASCAR ovals nearer his Massachusetts home, or competing on
the high banks of Daytona International, Bugsy Stevens did it all with the skill
of a seasoned professional and the merriment of a Saturday night beer hall.
Stevens’ perspective is profound and touching, as he deals deeply with issues
such as racing ethics, driving styles, track types, and even the deaths of so
many of his buddies. Told to his friend Bones Bourcier, an internationally
claimed motor sports journalist.
300 pages, over 150 photos Soft Cover
NASCAR Women: At the Heart of Racing
By Denise Woods
Though too few racing fans realize it, the NASCAR Winston Cup Scene series
wouldn't be possible without the participation of a remarkable range of women.
This book profiles a cross-section of women- from drivers' wives to top
executives and team owners- who have been instrumental in making NASCAR
America's biggest sport. Woods, who played her own part as a racing journalist
and team PR executive, tells the stories of 13 of NASCAR's most notable women.
Among them Stevie Waltrip, Deb Williams, Lesa France Kennedy. 144 Pages soft
cover
Full Throttle: The Life and Fast Times of Curtis Turner
By Robert Edelstein
Curtis Turner's life embodied everything that makes NASCAR
the biggest spectator sport in American history. In gripping prose, and with
full access to the files of Turner's widow, biographer Robert Edelstein
thrillingly recreates the life of this American legend. This one's on the fast
track. Hard cover, 326 pages. Black & white photos throughout.
Tim Richmond: The Fast Life and Remarkable Times of NASCAR's
Top Gun
By David Poole
Richmond's star was bright, but its light went out too
soon. As he neared stock car racing's zenith, Richmond's life took a tragic
turn. A man who thrived on the affection he felt from those who enjoyed watching
him compete spent his final months almost completely shut off from that world.
The memorable story of a born racer and how he raced headlong through life with
the throttle wide open and his wheels burning rubber at almost every turn.
Hardcover 6” x 9” 200 pages, 8 page black and white photo insert
