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Author : Angie Peterson Kaelberer
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0736866337
Learn about funny cars and how they race.
Author : Lou Hart
Publisher : CarTech Inc
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781613256985
Blast through the evolving early years of Funny Car drag racing when doorslammers morphed into flip-top rail monsters. The era features historic mounts from Arnie "the Farmer" Beswick, Al “the Flying Dutchman” Vanderwoude, "Jungle" Jim Liberman, Don “the Snake” Prudhomme, and many more! The metamorphosis from doorslammers to fiberglass flip-top dragsters wasn’t ever a cut and dry plan. As drag racers pushed the envelope for more speed, a series of innovations quickly evolved and refined the genre. Funny Cars cut their teeth in the A/Factory Experimental (A/FX) and Experimental Stock (X/S) classes in 1964 with the 2-percent Mopars that looked funny with their axles moved forward. However, it was Jack Chrisman’s supercharged, nitro-fueled 427 Supercharged Factory Experimental (S/FX) Comet Caliente that trailblazed the class on which the NHRA turned its back and the AHRA fully accepted. Showmanship became the draw in the dawn of Funny Car with half-track burnouts and flame-throwing headers that packed fans five deep at the fence. By 1969, the NHRA had no choice but to create a class for these nitro-breathing, flip-top-sporting rail bruisers, indoctrinating the Funny Car (F/C) class at the Winternationals with 40 cars vying for 16 places in the field. The rest, as they say, is history!
Author : Steve Reyes
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467109727
Southern California was the birthplace of organized drag racing, with the first organized race held at the Santa Ana airport in 1949 and the subsequent founding of the National Hot Rod Association in 1950. Over the next decade and a half, the dragster became the king of the quarter mile on Southern California drag strips. In 1964, veteran dragster owner/driver Jack Chrisman had an idea for something different to grace Southern California's drag strips. It was not a dragster but a stock-bodied race car using nitromethane for fuel in a supercharged engine. With the help of Gene Mooneyham, Mercury's Fran Hernandez, and sponsor Helen Sachs, Chrisman put together the world's first nitro-burning "funny car." It was a steel stock-bodied Mercury Cyclone with a supercharged 427 Ford engine running on pure nitromethane. Chrisman started the evolution that soon turned stock steel-bodied cars into fiberglass-bodied tube chassis funny cars. Southern California drag racers began to lead the way for racers all over the United States in the new funny car class.
Author : Jim Gigliotti
Publisher : Enslow Publishers, Inc.
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0766028720
"Learn about drag racing, funny cars, and experience what it feels like to spend the day at a drag race"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Robert Genat
Publisher : Motorbooks International
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0760307954
Traces the development of funny cars from the stock cars of the early 1960s to the dragsters of today, including coverage of the sport of funny car racing, types of funny cars, and famous drivers.
Author : Robert Genat
Publisher : Motorbooks
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Barracuda automobile
ISBN : 9780760318645
Chrysler entered the pony-car market with the capable but unlovely Barracuda in the early 1960s. The car was refined over the years, becoming a true muscle car, and a rather handsome one at that, but it wasn’t until the advent of the E-body pony cars from 1970-1974—Barracudas, the Dodge Challenger, and Plymouth ‘Cuda—that Chrysler became a true player in the pony-car market. This book tells the story of Chrysler’s pony car series, from the advent of the original Barracuda in 1964 to the final days of the smog-motored Challengers and ‘Cudas of the mid-1970s, focusing on the series’ heyday in the early 1970s.
Author : Larry G. Mitchell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1610608011
Author : Susan Creighton
Publisher : Silver Burdett Press
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 089686362X
Describes the sport of funny car racing, an event in drag racing competition, including its history, types of funny cars, the drag strip, and famous drivers.
Author : Robert C. Post
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Science
ISBN : 0801866642
Providing a firsthand history of the sport, this book takes a detailed look at all aspects of drag racing: the sport, the business, and tracks the innovations that permitted racers to disprove the "laws of physics". 147 halftones.
Author : Tom Boyd
Publisher : CarTech Inc
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781613255650
Relive the golden age of drag racing through this exhaustive volume covering the best drag racing model kits of the era. Model expert Tim Boyd, author of Collecting Muscle Car Model Kits, turned his attention to the fantastic drag racing model kits available from the late 1950s through today. Some racing model kits were actually 3-in-1 kits, where the builder assembled the drag-race version of the car in lieu of the street or custom version. Boyd starts by covering the options, collectability, variety, availability, and value of these wonderful kits, and then concentrates on the highly detailed drag racing-only kits that became available starting in the mid-1960s through today. He also shows the differences between original kits, older reproduction kits, and new reproduction kits that many enthusiasts find at swap meets and online sources today. Many of these great kits were from the 1960s, an era when building model kits was a widely popular, serious hobby, similar to video games today. Not only was it fun to build the kits but it was also a great way to learn about all the different race classes and categories because there wasn’t regular TV or online coverage during that era. The artwork on those kits was fantastic, and many collectors today seek original kits largely because of it. The classes of racing covered are Gassers, Rail Dragsters, Stocks and Super Stocks, Funny Cars, Pro Stocks, Exhibition Racers, and more. Drag racing cars designed by model companies that never actually existed are also covered. Nostalgia drags are some of the most popular events around the country today. People can’t get enough of these old race cars that were built in an era when variety, innovation and home building ruled the day. This book is great for modelers in general, model-kit collectors, and drag-racing fans young and old alike.
Author : Jeffrey Zuehlke
Publisher : LernerClassroom
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780822590132
Drag racing is all about pure speed. Inside and out, top fuel dragsters, funny cars, and other drag racers are built to burn off the starting line and sail across the finish line. Races take just a few seconds, but they're packed with excitement, danger, and intense competition. Even the smallest mistake can be the difference between winning and losing. In this book you will learn how the sport got its start on a lonely stretch of road near Santa Barbara, California. You'll also learn about the major classes of drag racers, how they got their start, and the drivers who push them to their limits.
Author : Jean Hegland
Publisher : Dial Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307573568
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • Set in the near-future, Into the Forest is a powerfully imagined novel that focuses on the relationship between two teenage sisters living alone in their Northern California forest home. Over 30 miles from the nearest town, and several miles away from their nearest neighbor, Nell and Eva struggle to survive as society begins to decay and collapse around them. No single event precedes society's fall. There is talk of a war overseas and upheaval in Congress, but it still comes as a shock when the electricity runs out and gas is nowhere to be found. The sisters consume the resources left in the house, waiting for the power to return. Their arrival into adulthood, however, forces them to reexamine their place in the world and their relationship to the land and each other. Reminiscent of Margaret Atwood's A Handmaid's Tale, Into the Forest is a mesmerizing and thought-provoking novel of hope and despair set in a frighteningly plausible near-future America. Praise for Into the Forest “[A] beautifully written and often profoundly moving novel.”—San Francisco Chronicle “A work of extraordinary power, insight and lyricism, Into the Forest is both an urgent warning and a passionate celebration of life and love.”—Riane Eisler, author of The Chalice and the Blade “From the first page, the sense of crisis and the lucid, honest voice of the . . . narrator pull the reader in. . . . A truly admirable addition to a genre defined by the very high standards of George Orwell's 1984.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Beautifully written.”—Kirkus Reviews “This beautifully written story captures the essential nature of the sister bond: the fierce struggle to be true to one’s own self, only to learn that true strength comes from what they are able to share together.”—Carol Saline, co-author of Sisters “Jean Hegland’s sense of character is firm, warm, and wise. . . . [A] fine first novel.”—John Keeble, author of Yellowfish
Author : Dave McClelland, Tom Madigan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1610609387
Author : Tyrone Georgiou
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781433946981
Learn about how fast funny cars can go and why they are funny.
Author : Jim Gigliotti
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781622851591
This fun volume explores the personalities, the history, and the crazy cars associated with the wild world of drag racing. Readers get a look into the different types of drag racing, and a "day at the races" for an exciting you-are-there feeling.