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Quarter-Mile Muscle: Detroit Goes to the Drags
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Average customer review:
Several of the photos published in "Quarter-Mile Muscle: Detroit Goes to the Drags" were from GeorgiaDragRacing.com contributors.
Bob Plumer (Drag Racing Memories), FE Bob Fermier, and Marvin T. Smith shot many of the great photos that were included in Larry's book. Look for Marvin's photos of Buck Pike's Mustang, Harold Dutton's Hemi Barracuda, Randy Payne's Mustang and Hubert Platt's Mustang and Fairlane.
The softbound, 128 page book is filled with great information, 200 color photographs and close to 100 b&w photos.
If you have read and enjoyed Larry's other drag racing books ("Super Stock: Drag Racing the Family Sedan" and "Gasser Wars: Drag Racing's Street Classes 1955-1967"), you'll enjoy this one, too.
David Dilbeck
Editor, GeorgiaDragRacing.com
Product Description
In many ways, drag racing spawned the muscle car era of the '60s. Super Stock drag racing was huge in the early '60s, and the factories encouraged their teams' success by building high-power, lightweight cars that'd be sure hits at the drags. Then in '64, Pontiac introduced the GTO, with the classic "small car, big engine" formula that hot rodders had been using for years. Other manufacturers responded with their own pony cars and muscle cars, and for nearly 10 years, muscle cars ruled the drags.
Quarter Mile Muscle covers the development and success of the muscle cars at the drags in all classes, from Super Stock to the early muscle car-based funny cars. Special attention is paid to low-production factory cars that were intended specifically for the drags - cars like the COPO Camaros, Ford Thunderbolts, and the dealer-built specials from Yenko, Motion, and others.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #416290 in Books
- Published on: 2005-08-06
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 128 pages
Features
- ISBN13: 9781932494006
- Condition: USED - VERY GOOD
- Notes:
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Editorial Reviews
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"The impressive thing about Larry Davis's new book is the incredible amount of color photography it contains. Even better, the text accompanying the photos is well written, emotionally researched, and laid out in an easy to read format."
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"The impressive thing about Larry Davis's new book is the incredible amount of color photography it contains. Even better, the text accompanying the photos is well written, emotionally researched, and laid out in an easy to read format."
Customer Reviews
Must-have book for fans of 60-70s stock class drag racing
Larry Davis has another great book out as a follow up to Super Stock - Drag Racing the Family Sedan. This one mainly covers the factory built stockers and cars that made places like Woodward Avenue famous. Good clean photos (wish they could have been bigger though) of a lot of stockers. The focus is on the Midwest/Ohio are where Davis grew up. Great book, highly recommended!
Quarter Mile Muscle
This is the third book by Mr. Davis about, "doorslammers,". They just get better and better!
Must-have for the Musclecar or Drag Racing fan
Great companion to Super Stock. I actually got this one first. If you like musclecars or vintage stock and super stock racing, right to the birth of pro-stock, this is a great book. It covers from the early days all the way to pro-stock, with info about what Detroit was doing as well as the racers. Alot of photos of the not-as-popular cars and drivers as well as some neat match-racers.
