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...
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...
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...
Virtually from the moment of its launch in April 1964, the Ford Mustang has been a favorite among road racers. From the Tour de France, to production sports car racing,...
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...
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, to...
Drag Racing in the 1970s: A Sensational Decade of Speed and Innovation Step back into the thrilling world of the 1970s with this captivating book that chronicles a groundbreaking decade...
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...
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...
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...
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...
As Sir Jackie Stewart states in his Foreword, “Pete Lyons was one of the best journalists in Formula 1 at the time I was racing.” Lyons himself writes that when...
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...
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...
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,”...
In over 50 years as a renowned motoring journalist and racing driver, Jeremy Walton has driven many, many hundreds of performance cars, but Fords have always been prominent among them...
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...
Ford versus Ferrari The story of a monumental battle, as Ford and Ferrari vied for racing supremacy at Le Mans during the 1960s. Following the development of Ford’s GT40, Ken...
Tells the story of the Mustang and Camaro in Trans-Am racing, and the models' competition records. Includes the histories of their competitors - Detroit's 'big four' - and their commitment...
The Shelby American Story The Shelby American Story is a fascinating collection of interviews and stories about the cars, the races, and the people that made the Shelby story so...
A collection of Lola race cars in competitive action that includes formula cars, Can-AM cars, Indy cars, and more. The Lola T70, one of racing’s legends, features prominently in this action-packed...
Here are the inside stories of Ford during the Total Performance sixties. This decade brought us the Falcon, the Mustang, Shelby Cobras and motorsports wins from Indy and NASCAR to...
Bronco Racing Stuffed with never-before-seen photography, stories, and race results, Bronco Racing: Ford’s Legendary 4x4 in Off-Road Competition is the most definitive publication ever on this marque’s racing success! Diligently...
In a short-lived but tempestuous and exciting life, motorsport’s Group B category attracted world-class manufacturers to develop new models. Almost all were technically-advanced, very powerful and striking in many ways...
