Kings of the Quarter-Mile: Rail-Jobs, Slingshots Mid-Engine Dragsters (A Photo Gallery) ebook

by Lou Hart

Lou Hart has been covering the sport of drag racing for over 30 years. This book has excellnt color and B&W photos of the slingshot top fuel dragsters with very accurate descriptions of the rails and drivers along with the early dragstrips. One person found this helpful.

Lou Hart has been covering the sport of drag racing for over 30 years. He started going to the drag strips in the heyday of drag racing with his camera and has collected a large amount of vintage drag racing photography. He has written numerous books in the subject of drag racing. Series: A Photo Gallery.

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of the Quarter-Mile : Rail-Jobs, Slingshots and Mid-Engine Dragsters. In the mid '50s, organized drag racing gave hot rodders a safe place to race.

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Highlights for us were the Upton Blues at the King's head, where we kept an audience of around a hundred people through two 45 minutes sets under competition from the main stage yards away, and Worcester Music Festival at the Social Beer Company, where we filled the venue and the street outside - one couple said they heard the music from their house.

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Kings of the Quarter-Mile by Lou Hart: When our young heroes began returning from World War II, they . Rail-jobs, Slingshots & Mid-engine Dragster is the newest volume from Lou Hart featuring a pictorial of quarter-mile legends.

Kings of the Quarter-Mile by Lou Hart: When our young heroes began returning from World War II, they applied the knowledge gained from Uncle Sam towards the fledgling. Kings of the Quarter-mile: Rail-jobs, Slingshots & Mid-engine Dragsters.

Home Shop Books Racing Kings of the Quarter-Mile: Rail-Jobs, Slingshots & Mid-Engine . Cars evolved from pre-war coupes and sedans to crude rail jobs, which were stripped and narrowed frame rails with nothing more than an engine, driveline, seat and steering gear

Home Shop Books Racing Kings of the Quarter-Mile: Rail-Jobs, Slingshots & Mid-Engine Dragsters. Cars evolved from pre-war coupes and sedans to crude rail jobs, which were stripped and narrowed frame rails with nothing more than an engine, driveline, seat and steering gear. As hot rodders were the true Mothers of Invention, the cars later became hand-made, finely crafted slingshots. Dubbed the Kings of the Sport, these supercharged, fuel-injected slingshots burned exotic fuels and captured the attention of every young enthusiast from coast to coast.

Rear-engine dragsters were not new-they were seen at the very beginning of drag racing-but dragster evolution .

Rear-engine dragsters were not new-they were seen at the very beginning of drag racing-but dragster evolution, technology, and continued instances of destruction and sometimes death had advanced to where the advantages and success of the rear-engine slingshot could not be ignored. This is a Dragmaster "Dart" chassis, one of hundreds built by Jim Nelson and Dode Martin out of San Diego. Beautiful in their own right, the beginning of the rear-engine revolution gave birth to slingshots like this Don Long car campaigned by JL Walton, Wes Cerny, and driver Don Moody.

When our young heroes began returning from World War II, they applied the knowledge gained from Uncle Sam towards the fledgling hot rod movement. While speeds increased, rodders learned the hard way just how dangerous it was to “drag it out” on the city streets. In the mid ‘50s, organized drag racing gave hot rodders a safe place to race. Cars evolved from pre-war coupes and sedans to crude “rail jobs,” which were stripped and narrowed frame rails with nothing more than an engine, driveline, seat, and steering gear. As hot rodders were the true Mothers of Invention, the cars later became hand-made, finely crafted “Slingshot Dragsters.” Dubbed the “Kings of the Sport,” these supercharged, fuel-injected Slingshots burned exotic fuels and captured the attention of every young enthusiast from coast to coast. The cars dazzled with gleaming chrome, Candy Apple, Pearlescent, and Metalflake® paint jobs, while the nitromethane fuel produced an unforgettable thunderous sound. This new volume contains all the stars that waged war on quarter-mile strips of asphalt from California to Maine. It’s a vivid pictorial display that captures the true essence of extreme acceleration in all its glory.