San Diego Drag Racing And The Bean Bandits

Author : Emmanuel Burgin,Colleen M. O’Connor,Susan Wachowiak
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781439663585

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San Diego Drag Racing and the Bean Bandits by Emmanuel Burgin,Colleen M. O’Connor,Susan Wachowiak Pdf

San Diego enjoys a long and storied race car and drag racing history, and the Bean Bandits are a huge part of that heritage. Yet their story remains buried in plain sight. Told here in photographs garnered from private, personal, and historical collections, the 1950s pioneering exploits of Bean Bandits leader Joaquin Arnett and his contributions to that racing history come to life. The San Diego native led his Bean Bandits to over 300 wins and several land speed records while competing against other local clubs, like the Prowlers, Oilers, Roadsters, and Roadrunners. Eventually, the Bean Bandits' streamliners set records on the Bonneville Salt Flats. Arnett won the first National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) Championship in 1953, was named to the International Car Racing Hall of Fame in 1992, and was awarded an NHRA Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994. Arnett and his Bean Bandits' car also graced the cover of Hot Rod magazine's special drag strip issue in 1953.

Author : Alberto López Pulido & Rigoberto "Rigo" Reyes
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439660409

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San Diego Lowriders by Alberto López Pulido & Rigoberto "Rigo" Reyes Pdf

San Diego's unique lowrider culture and community has a long history of "low and slow." Cruising the streets from 1950 to 1985, twenty-eight lowrider car clubs made their marks in the San Diego neighborhoods of Logan Heights, Sherman Heights, National City, Old Town, San Ysidro and the adjoining border community of Tijuana, Mexico. Foundational clubs, including the Latin Lowriders, Brown Image and Chicano Brothers, helped transform marginalized youth into lowriders who modified their cars into elegant, stylized lowered vehicles with a strong Chicano influence. Despite being targeted by the police in the 1980s, club members defended their passion and succeeded in building a thriving scene of competitions and shows with a tradition of customization, close community and Chicano pride. Authors Alberto López Pulido and Rigoberto "Rigo" Reyes follow the birth of lowrider culture to the present day.

Author : Alberto López Pulido & Rigoberto "Rigo" Reyes
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467137805

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San Diego Lowriders: A History of Cars and Cruising by Alberto López Pulido & Rigoberto "Rigo" Reyes Pdf

"San Diego's unique lowrider culture and community has a long history of 'low and slow.' Cruising the streets from 1950 to 1985, twenty-eight lowrider car clubs made their marks in the San Diego neighborhoods of Logan Heights, Sherman Heights, National City, Old Town, San Ysidro and the adjoining border community of Tijuana, Mexico. Foundational clubs, including the Latin Lowriders, Brown Image and Chicano Brothers, helped transform marginalized youth into lowriders who modified their cars into elegant, stylized lowered vehicles with a strong Chicano influence. Despite being targeted by the police in the 1980s, club members defended their passion and succeeded in building a thriving scene of competitions and shows with a tradition of customization, close community and Chicano pride. Authors Alberto Lâopez Pulido and Rigoberto 'Rigo' Reyes follow the birth of lowrider culture to the present day." --

Author : Dave McClelland, Tom Madigan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1610609387

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Fuel and Guts by Dave McClelland, Tom Madigan Pdf

Author : Scotty Gosson
Publisher : CarTech Inc
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781613252239

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Lost Drag Strips II by Scotty Gosson Pdf

Fresh on the heels of the best-selling book Lost Drag Strips comes a new look at other long-lost and forgotten drag racing facilities from the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. In the first volume, the author examined the birth of drag racing and its subsequent popularity that invaded every city and community across America. Unfortunately, after the initial explosion of popularity, it waned, and various drag strips closed for a myriad of reasons. Financial pressure for the real estate they occupied, suburban sprawl, and waning participation were all reasons for the change in fortunes for the small, and even not-so-small, racetracks. The first volume was great, but readers demanded more! Lost Drag Strips II picks up where the first volume left off, covering even more tracks with archival photos of racing in the tracks' heyday, the cars that ran there, and coverage of the tracks as they exist today. This volume also includes some of the tracks that survived, those that fought off the economic demons and the urban sprawl and continue to run today. Tracks in this volume include: Fort Wainwright/Racing Lions Motorsports Park, Avenue G Drag Strip, Fremont/Baylands Drag Strip, San Fernando Drag Strip, Fontana Drag City, Inyokern Drag Strip, Kahuku Air Strip, Las Vegas Speedrome, Continental Divide Raceways, SRCA Drag Strip, Southwest Raceway, Willow Run Raceway, Minnesota Dragways, KCTA Drag Strip, Detroit Dragway, Niagara Airport Dragstrip, New York National Speedway, York US 30 Drag-O-Way, South Mountain Raceway, La Place Dragway, Yellow River Drag Strip, Thunderbolt Dragway, and more.

Author : Dan Burger Robert Genat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Hot rods
ISBN : 1610591682

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Retro Rods by Dan Burger Robert Genat Pdf

Over the last few years, "old school" techniques and aesthetics have emerged as the predominant trends among hot rod enthusiasts. Chock full of photos & stories. In addition, the authors present case examples of hot rods from the 1940s and '40s that have been restored to their former glory.

Author : Drew Hardin
Publisher : Motorbooks
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780760376256

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HOT ROD Magazine by Drew Hardin Pdf

HOT ROD Magazine: 75 Years is the official illustrated history of automotive enthusiasts' favorite magazine.

Author : Robert C. Post
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Science
ISBN : 0801866642

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High Performance by Robert C. Post Pdf

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 : Frances Basham,Paul Rambali
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Transportation
ISBN : UOM:39015004469881

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Car Culture by Frances Basham,Paul Rambali Pdf

Author : Jay H. Smith
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1560652306

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Drag Racing by Jay H. Smith Pdf

Introduces the sport of drag racing and the different types of cars which are raced.

Author : Emmanuel Burgin
Publisher : Hickey & McGee
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781005006631

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Vagabond Blues by Emmanuel Burgin Pdf

Vagabond Blues is an insiders’ peek at minor league football in the early 1980’s where Robbie Santos, a young man with big league aspirations, is thrust into a world with NFL castaways, Vietnam Vets, drunks and drug-users who are all trying with frantic efforts to rise above the decadence and be noticed. Over the course of one season playing with the defending Minor League Football Champion Sumpter City Cougars, Robbie is forced to make decisions that could compromise his ideals, his football career, and his future. “Beneath the riotous fun of this novel is an underlying sadness of desperation.” Ron mix, NFL Hall of Fame Offensive lineman with the San Diego Chargers. Member of the Sports Illustrated All-Century Team

Author : Paul Di Filippo
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781497626874

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Neutrino Drag by Paul Di Filippo Pdf

This story collection “showcases that lighter side of Paul Di Filippo . . . with some memorable moments of brilliant wit and storytelling” (Infinity Plus). With twenty tales, a bold lack of restraint, and amazing stylistic diversity, Di Filippo makes strange bedfellows of a range of characters—from Jayne Mansfield to Pythagoras to Disney “imagineers” to the Virgin Mary—fit together inside a bountiful collection of surprises, humor, and the very, very strange. William Gibson has identified his writing as “spooky, haunting, and hilarious,” and after you absorb all the shocks, you will inevitably agree.

Author : Robert Genat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Antique and classic cars
ISBN : 1610592417

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Vintage and Historic Drag Racers by Robert Genat Pdf

Diggers, funny cars and more of the best vintage drag racers of the late 1950s and 1960s! Genat describes each car's race history and looks at well-known drivers and tuners of the era. See Melvin Heath's Dragster, Don Garlits' Swamp Rat 1, Mickey Weise's 1968 Hemi Dart, and many others. Super Stock drag racing of the 1960s is covered extensively, most notably the radically altered stock bodied vehicles that would forever change the face of drag racing.

Author : Bill Holder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Drag racing
ISBN : 1858410053

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Drag Racing by Bill Holder Pdf

Author : Liz Burn
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781449039004

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Drag Racing by Liz Burn Pdf

This is my innocent and humorous recollection of the disasters and successes I have encountered in the male dominated sport of Drag Racing, when it was in it's infancy, back in the 1970's in the UK. I became only the second woman in the UK to race a Top Fuel dragster. How I survived a 200mph crash and came back to win the European Championship two years in a row. Yes, I beat the men at their own game!