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Pro Sports Car Racing in America (Motorbooks Classic) | 
 enlarge | Author: Dave Friedman
Publisher: Motorbooks
Category: Book
List Price: $26.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 1127872
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 196
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 10 x 9.9 x 0.6
ISBN: 0760319162
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.720973
EAN: 9780760319161
ASIN: 0760319162
Publication Date: March 13, 2004
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Product Description
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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 Nice Pictorial of a bygone era in racing. July 26, 2008
This is a Really Nice Pictorial.. Of a Bygone era..Many who did not have the pleasure to see these cool cars myself included get a Chance at it.Before Sponsors and Rude People took it over.Not as many Corvette Pics as I would like, but interesting nonetheless. Mr.Friedman, Thank you, And Consider Doing another Corvette Racing book!
 Good...but not great September 18, 2007
As others have mentioned, the photos are great. They do a great job of showing the state and conditions of sports car racing at the time. So if the photos are great, why only three stars?
Because the content beyond that is really light. I'm too young to have seen these cars the first time(36 now) but have seen many of them at vintage events. While pictures of a field full of three different types of Lotus are enjoyable to look at, there's no explanation as to what makes them different. The same is true for all the marques. Also missing is much detail from or about the drivers and teams.
Finally, the book has a decided West Coast bias. I've been to Road Atlanta several times and live a short drive from Road America but found few photos from either of these tracks.
It's not bad, but you'll need some other reference material to fill in the dead air around the great images.
Pro Sports Car Racing in America 1958-1974 November 29, 2005
If you like pictures that show everything about the racing scene in the early 60's Dave has captured the scene. Great photography.
 Pro Sports Car Racing in America, 1958/1974 July 5, 2002
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Some really good photographs and, at times a good account of the object of same. ABSOLUTELY lacking of what races where run at what time and all of the accompaning data that you would, and have come to expect from a book such as as this.As such, if you try to correlate the data from other books with the non-existant data from this book............. Really nothing more than a 'magazine article' which had been given limited pages...... A limited volume, which only leads us to wait, and hope for someone else to do a complete job on this subject. Dennis
PRO SPORTS CAR EXTRAVAGANZA! February 23, 2000
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
What a great photo-history of TRUE sports car racing. Great photos that Friedman shot himself during that historic time fill the book. This will be a favorite book for racing fans, historians, modelers and slot car racers alike. Highly recommend this and all of Friedman's other photo-history styled books.
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