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Taking stock : life in NASCAR's fast lane
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ISBN: 1612342337 9781612342337 1574885596 9781574885590 Year: 2002 Publisher: Washington, District of Columbia : Potomac Books Inc.,

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Features a collection of never-before-published essays by stock car racing's most prominent writers


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The early laps of stock car racing : a history of the sport and business through 1974
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ISBN: 1476616221 9781476616223 9780786479344 0786479345 Year: 2014 Publisher: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,

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The first organized, sanctioned American stock car race took place in 1908 on a road course around Briarcliff, New York--staged by one of America''s early speed mavens, William K. Vanderbilt, Jr. A veteran of the early Ormond-Daytona Beach speed trials, Vanderbilt brought the Grand Prize races to Savannah, Georgia, the same year. What began as a rich man''s sport eventually became the working man''s sport, finding a home in the South with the infusion of moonshiners and their souped-up cars. Based in large part on statements of drivers, car owners and others garnered from archived newspaper ar

Real NASCAR : white lightning, red clay, and Big Bill France
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ISBN: 1469604175 0807895725 9780807895726 9781469604176 9781469609911 1469609916 9780807833841 0807833843 9798893131314 Year: 2010 Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,

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In this history of the stock car racing circuit known as NASCAR, Daniel Pierce offers a revealing new look at the sport from its postwar beginnings on Daytona Beach and Piedmont dirt tracks through the early 1970s when the sport spread beyond its southern roots and gained national recognition. Following NASCAR founder Big Bill France from his start as a mechanic, Real NASCAR details the sport's genesis as it has never been shown before. Pierce not only confirms the popular notion of NASCAR's origins in bootlegging, but also establishes beyond a doubt the close ties between organized rac


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Bud Moore : memoir of a country mechanic from D-Day to NASCAR glory
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ISBN: 147662108X 9781476621081 9780786499540 0786499540 Year: 2015 Publisher: Jefferson, North Carolina ; London, [England] : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,

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" This is Bud Moore's story in his own words, covering his early life in Depression-era Spartanburg, South Carolina, his combat experience during the Invasion of Normandy, his racing career, and his family life and retirement as a gentleman farmer. Many never before seen photos are included. "--

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