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Funny Car Fever: The Birth of Drag Racing's Wildest Class

Funny Car Fever: The Birth of Drag Racing's Wildest Class
By Steve Reyes

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Another great book from the legendary photographer Steve Reyes is now available - "Funny Car Fever - The Birth of Drag Racing's Wildest Class."

Amazing photos and captions from one of the best-ever drag racing photographers will leave you wanting more!

The photos are from the early years (pre-funny cars) to nearly the modern era.

Along with the photos, Steve has written captions (or stories) for the photos that are informative (in several different ways!), humorous and often surprising. Steve leaves you feeling like an insider with his knowledge of what was happening at the time.

Wild smoky burnouts, cars on fire, header flames, wheelstands, and more! Rear-engine, four wheel drive, you name it and it's probably here.

Order this book now - you'll be glad you did! I'm hoping that Steve Reyes and Car Tech will produce another book soon. If they do, I'll be first in line to get a copy!

David Dilbeck

Editor, GeorgiaDragRacing.com

Product Description

There wasn t always a class for these funny-looking cars. In the mid 1960s, many of drag racing s fastest drivers were outgrowing the Super Stock and Factory Experimental classes, building cars that stretched and eventually broke the rules. Promoters discovered they could pair up these altered-wheelbase, injected, blown machines in exhibition match races and the spectators came running. Rivalries were born, the Funny Car class was created, and the cars kept getting faster and faster. Funny Car Fever is a humorous, heart-felt, first-hand account of the most exciting and memorable years of the Funny Car class. Steve Reyes followed these fiberglass-bodied, nitro burning machines and their drivers from the years leading up to the creation of the Funny Car class through its halcyon days. He s included over 350 of his favorite images and more than a few never-before-heard stories to bring the feeling of the class and the era home to you.

Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #50626 in Books
  • Published on: 2007-05-01
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 192 pages

Editorial Reviews

Review
Steve Reyes takes us back to a magical era lost in the mist of time. If you love early Funny Cars and the history of our sport, you will want Funny Car Fever in your library. --Drag Review Magazine, reviewed by Jim Marchyshyn, May 2007

The book is of the utmost quality, and if you are like us, flipping through the pages will be a mesmerizing blast fromt he past. --Mike Kelly's Cruise News, July 2007

These are not just collections of old photos, these are fantastically illustrated history books written by someone who shared the passion of the drivers and the racecar builders of the time. --Custom Car (UK), reviewed by Mike Pye, June 2008

Review

Drag Review Magazine, reviewed by Jim Marchyshyn, May 2007    

"Steve Reyes takes us back to a magical era lost in the mist of time. If you love early Funny Cars and the history of our sport, you will want Funny Car Fever in your library."


Mike Kelly's Cruise News, July 2007
 
"The book is of the utmost quality, and if you are like us, flipping through the pages will be a mesmerizing blast from the past."  


Mike Kelly's Cruise News, July 2007
 
"The book is of the utmost quality, and if you are like us, flipping through the pages will be a mesmerizing blast from the past".

About the Author

Steve Reyes is one of the most published automotive photographers from the 1960s to the 1990s with over 300 magazine covers and a multitude of features within a number of automotive magazines. Reyes is one of four photographers inducted into the International Drag Racing Hall of Fame.  He resides in Florida.



 



 



 



 

Customer Reviews

love this book5
If you love drag racing, this book is for you. It gives the history of funny cars up to and including present drivers. A must for drag racing fans.

funny car fever fantastic5
Steve Reyes is the photo king of the drag racing world. Awesome photos of the 1960's thru early 1980's of all the great funnys and lots of obscure ones too. Must have for drag racing fans interested in the rich history of the sport before all the corporate p.c. crap of the current day. Wild and wooly the way it really was.

Funny Cars Forever5
I have been a fan of Funny Cars since my first race at the OCIR Manufacturers meet in 1970. Steve has always taken the greatest action shots. The pictures in this book are no exception. Due to the memories it brings back, this is one book that I will keep coming back to forever.