Penske, Shelby Hall, Gurney, Hill, Ginther, Reventlow, Miles, Cunningham, Krause--these are the men who dominated sports car racing in North America at the start of the 1958 racing season. They had spent a lot of their own money on the hobby they loved, but now they wanted something back. They wanted to go pro. For the next 16 years, the cars became progressively faster, the competition hotter, and the stakes higher. But what was it really like to thread a factory-sponsored Porsche 917 or Ferrari 512 through the corkscrew ...
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Penske, Shelby Hall, Gurney, Hill, Ginther, Reventlow, Miles, Cunningham, Krause--these are the men who dominated sports car racing in North America at the start of the 1958 racing season. They had spent a lot of their own money on the hobby they loved, but now they wanted something back. They wanted to go pro. For the next 16 years, the cars became progressively faster, the competition hotter, and the stakes higher. But what was it really like to thread a factory-sponsored Porsche 917 or Ferrari 512 through the corkscrew at Riverside or to tromp the brake on a factory McLaren at the last possible deep spot of the Canadian Corner at Road America?. Few are fortunate to know first-hand, but for the rest Dave Friedman's photography straps you in the driver's seat More than 300 photos, many in color, relive the fastest hottest most intense racing in American history.
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Add this copy of Pro Sports Car Racing in America 1958-1974 to cart. $3.49, very good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Atlanta rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Austell, GA, UNITED STATES, published 1999 by Motorbooks International.
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Well presented. For those of us who were there as spectators, a pleasant reminder of when sports cars were fun, even with the "pro" aspect. Book does lack coverage of midwest and east coast goings on, most is west coast, but still well worth a read.
