Lost Drag Strips: Ghosts of Quarter Miles Past (Cartech) Paperback Author: Visit Amazon's Tommy Lee Byrd Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1613250452 | Format: PDF, EPUB
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About the Author
Tommy Lee Byrd is a nationally known contributor to many automotive enthusiast magazines including
Street Rod Builder and
Hot Rod. He has many years of experience writing automotive articles (from features to technical how-to) and shooting pro-level photographs. Tommy grew up the son of an expert custom auto body and paint man, and calls Dayton, Tennessee, his home.
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- Series: Cartech
- Paperback: 176 pages
- Publisher: Car Tech (February 15, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1613250452
- ISBN-13: 978-1613250457
- Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
An excellent and colorful trip down memory lane. Almost everyone in North America will have, at some point, heard, seen or driven a Hot Rod, Dragster, Formula 1, Sprint or any variation of racing vehicles. For me, I remember hearing the races on the mud flats, but only saw the vehicles on the road when they weren't racing. Aficionados will enjoy the well-written histories of the tracks and racers. Readers who don't know a stock-car from a sprint-car will become well-versed on the many different styles and how they evolved.
There was a lot of research and interviews involved in writing this book, I congratulate Tommy Lee Byrd on a very informative book written with such feeling. The photographs, from actual collections by the people who lived, crewed, and drove at the speedways are fabulous. The storyline is historic, factual, nostalgic and intriguing. Hard to put down, unusual in this type of book. A tribute to the author and the innovative drivers and their crews. This is not just about the drag strips or what happened to them. It's also about how the vehicles from street-racers and hot rods to the dynamic race cars of today have brought about changes and inspired the automotive industry for all makes and models of cars on the roads now.
As a teen in the 1950s, I grew up in the heyday of the growth of the sport in Canada. I found in reading this book that I wish I had seen more. I was fascinated by the speed at which changes were made in the industry and on the track to get more out of the vehicles. The growth in length of the old dragsters to the elongated parachuted dragsters of today is all documented.
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