Drag racing has a long and storied history. Many have said that the first drag race happened shortly after the second car was made. While that may or may not...
The SCCA Trans-Am racing series launched in 1966 and was designed to showcase a new class of sporty domestic cars racing on road courses. In a few short years, it...
In 1970, the American muscle car was as fast and outrageous as it would ever get. But the end was nigh, and 1970 Maximum Muscle dives head-first into the storm...
Blast through the evolving early years of Funny Car drag racing when door slammers morphed into flip-top rail monsters. The era features historic mounts from Arnie "the Farmer" Beswick, Al...
The legendary automotive designer and manufacturer Shelby American didn’t last long, but it was a flame that burned incandescently before being extinguished by corporate politics. In less than a decade,...
Since first becoming a mass-market success in mid-1964, the Ford Mustang has made millions of passes down the quarter-mile on sanctioned drag strips. With styling flared toward the youth, aftermarket...
Six Decades of Shelby performance—from the first Shelby AC Cobra to today’s Mustang Shelby GT500! A bad heart forced Carroll Shelby, one of the top racing drivers of all time,...
Stuffed with never-before-seen photography, stories,and race results, Bronco Racing: Ford’s Legendary 4x4 inOff-Road Competition is the most definitive publication everon this marque’s racing success! In 1965, legendary builder and off-road...
George Hurst was a hot rodder at heart, but he was also a visionary, an innovator, a brilliant promoter, and he was particularly skilled at building alliances. Hurst developed and...
The fabulous success of Ford’s Mustang in America inspired Ford’s British and German branches to do likewise. The sporty coupe they created, the Ford Capri, was launched in 1969 as...
This new edition of The Ford that Beat Ferrari tells the story of the celebrated Ford GT40 through a remarkable array of over 850 period photographs, many of them in...
This book tells the fascinating history of the Daytona Coupe version of Carroll Shelby’s fabled Cobra with special focus on one of the six cars built. Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe...
Ford’s “Total Performance” racing program in the early 1960s was the first stone turned in the task of repurposing its image to the youth market. The introduction of the Mustang...
Many fans of drag racing consider the most interesting era to be from the 1950s through the 1970s, the years when the sport really took off. During that period, so...
In the late 1950s, a young John Morton was transfixed with sports car racing. His dreams of competition eventually led him to enroll, in 1962, in the Shelby School of...
The 1960s was arguably the most important decade ford drag racing. It had exciting cars, thrilling races, rapidly changing technology, and most important, factory participation. Among the best high-performance cars...
Webster’s Dictionary lists the term showman as “a notably spectacular, dramatic, or effective performer.” In the art of drag racing, Hubert Platt checked all boxes. Known as the “Georgia Shaker,”...
This sumptuous book tells the story of one of the world’s most important racing cars. Always raced in Gulf’s iconic blue-and-orange colours, this Ford GT40, known by its chassis number...
This is a 6 book Carroll Smith kit. Drive to Win, The Essential Guide to Race Driving: Take pole position to learn the ground rules, techniques and procedures of driving...
Shelby American: The Renegades Who Built the Cars, Won the Races, and Lived the Legend The legendary automotive designer and manufacturer Shelby American didn’t last long, but it was a...
When Ford rolled out the Mustang in April 1964, it was an instant hit. Even with its immense popularity, it didn’t stop Ford Corporate, zone managers, and dealerships from taking...
The First Three Shelby Cobras, the third book in the acclaimed Exceptional Cars series, tells the story of three remarkable cars, the first AC Cobras created by the legendary Carroll...
As a young man, George Montgomery lived for cars. He came of age in the classic era of the hot rod and fully immersed himself in the car culture. Montgomery...
This book tells the story of Ford GT40 Mark II, chassis no. P/1016, one of the trio of cars that crossed the finishing line together at Le Mans in 1966...
