Tales From A Top Fuel Dragster

Author : Shirley Muldowney
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781613216224

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Tales from a Top Fuel Dragster by Shirley Muldowney Pdf

Shirley Muldowney not only broke the gender barrier in the National Hot Rod Association in the 1970s, but she also completely rewrote the record books in Top Fuel Eliminator, drag racing’s quickest and fastest category. She was the first woman to receive a Top Fuel license from the NHRA. Between 1977 and 1982, Muldowney won three NHRA Top Fuel championships—the first female ever to win a title in any professional motorsport. She won the prestigious NHRA US Nationals in 1982 and was recently inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame. By the time she retired at the end of the 2003 season, Muldowney had become one of the most recognized and celebrated race car drivers in history. Tales from a Top-Fuel Dragster is an unabashed collection of stories, anecdotes, and opinions in Muldowney’s own unvarnished style of storytelling, laced with her straightforward, take-no-prisoners approach. She has spent her entire lifetime telling it like it is, standing up to the establishment, and refusing to do anything other than in her own way. Politically correct? Hardly. Readers are encouraged to strap themselves in when she shares her many tales. It’s the whole truth and nothing but the truth according to the legendary Shirley Muldowney.

Author : Shirley Muldowney
Publisher : Sports Publishing LLC
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1582611076

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Shirley Muldowney's Tales from the Track by Shirley Muldowney Pdf

In the 1970s, when the idea of a woman competing successfully with men in any form of motorsports was radical notion, a young woman from Schenectady, New York, began her singular quest to change the chauvinistic mindset that prevailed in professional drag racing. Shirley Muldowney not only broke the gender barrier in the National Hot Rod Association, but also completely rewrote the record books in Top Fuel Eliminator, the sport's quickest and fastest category. She was the first woman ever to receive a Top Fuel license from the NHRA, and none other than "Big Daddy" Don Garlits was one of the veteran drivers who signed off on it. Between 1977 and 1982, Muldowney won three NHRA Top Fuel championships--the first female ever to win a title in any professional motorsport--and added an AHRA Top Fuel championship to her resume, as well. She won the prestigious NHRA U.S. Nationals in 1982 and, before her retirement at the end of the 2003 season, had become one of the most recognized and celebrated race car drivers in history, male or female. She was recently inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in Novi, Michigan, and has been the subject of countless features in newspapers, magazines, and network television from coast to coast. Shirley Muldowney's Tales from the Track is an unabashed collection of stories, anecdotes, and opinions in her own unvarnished style of storytelling, laced with her straightforward, take-no-prisoners approach. She has spent her entire lifetime telling it like it is, standing up to the establishment, and refusing to do anything other than in her own way. Politically correct? Hardly. Readers are encouraged to strap themselves in when she shares her manytales. It's the whole truth and nothing but the truth according to the legendary Shirley Muldowney.

Author : Don Garlits
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781613217559

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Tales from the Drag Strip by Don Garlits Pdf

Since the moment that young men began modifying and personalizing their automobiles back in the 1940s and ’50s, “Big Daddy” Don Garlits was squarely in the thick of this intoxicating pursuit. Tales from the Drag Strip with “Big Daddy” Don Garlits is a first-person account of the many memorable experiences this drag racing icon has lived through in his half-century of nitromethane-fueled exploits. The many races, racers, race fans, and race tracks that have touched his colorful career are recounted as only Big Daddy can, painting a vivid picture of his life at speed and the triumphs and tragedies that came along the way. Insightful, ironic, humorous, and touching—but all true—Big Daddy’s remembrances are the next best thing to reliving the glory days of America’s quickest and fastest motorsports through the eyes of an American institution.

Author : Robert Genat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1610592247

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Top Fuel Dragster by Robert Genat Pdf

Author : Steve Reyes
Publisher : Cartech
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Drag racers
ISBN : 1613252188

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Top Fuel Dragsters: Drag Racing's Rear-Engine Revolution by Steve Reyes Pdf

In general terms, drag racing is the fastest form of motor racing; within drag racing, Top Fuel is the fastest of the classes. Top Fuel has always been the leading class in terms of technology, cost, excitement, and speed. Over the years, technology has changed greatly. What started out as a flathead engine, four wheels, frame rails, and a steering wheel has morphed into technological wonders producing horsepower figures in the thousands and running supercharged nitromethane cars over the quarter-mile in the 4-second range. Industry legend and veteran journalist Steve Reyes was there through all the technological changes; he has the photos, anecdotes, quotes, and tales of the era. He discusses it all, including the experimentation that led to incredibly exciting racing and wild mishaps. Join him in the pages of this book where he shares all the stories of this incredible racing era.

Author : Chris Martin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Drag racing
ISBN : 1880652587

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The Top Fuel Handbook by Chris Martin Pdf

Author : Denny Von Finn
Publisher : Bellwether Media
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781612114576

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Top Fuel Dragsters by Denny Von Finn Pdf

Top Fuel drivers and their cars race one-on-one in a straight line. Drag racing is one of the most popular forms of auto racing, and Top Fuel dragsters are the fastest dragsters around. Young readers will explore the technology that enables a Top Fuel dragster to travel faster than 330 miles per hour!

Author : Dave McClelland, Tom Madigan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1610609387

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Fuel and Guts by Dave McClelland, Tom Madigan Pdf

Author : Tyrone Georgiou
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781433947100

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Top Fuel Dragsters by Tyrone Georgiou Pdf

Learn about the lightweight dragsters that have their engines rebuilt after every race.

Author : Guy Martin
Publisher : Random House
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781473586932

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Dead Men Don't Tell Tales by Guy Martin Pdf

Guy Martin can't sit still. He has to keep pushing - both himself and whatever machine he is piloting - to the extreme. He's a doer, not a talker. That applies whether Guy's competing in a self-supported 750-mile mountain bike race across Arizona, or trying to reach 300mph in a standing mile on the 800-horsepower motorbike he built in his shed. And during his TV adventures, travelling through Japan, winning records for the world's fastest tractor, re-creating the famous Steve McQueen Great Escape jump, discovering the toil and sacrifice of the D-Day landings and trying to cut the mustard as a Battle of Britain pilot. Guy's become a dad now and he's hoping that one day his daughter will grow up to be a better welder than he is. Oh, and he's still getting up at 5am to work on trucks in for service or to be out on his tractor, working the Lincolnshire land he's always called home. This is Guy Martin's latest book, in his own words, on the last four years of his life that make the rest of us look like we're in slow motion. We're here for a good time, not a long time. To Guy, if it's worth doing, it's worth dying for.

Author : David Asa Schwartz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-14
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781440868801

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Modern Sports around the World by David Asa Schwartz Pdf

Modern Sports around the World focuses on the history, geography, sociology, economics, and technological advancements of 50 sports played from India to Ireland. Sports have become an international spectacle that influences nations' foreign policy, world economies, and regional morale. Hundreds of billions of dollars are at stake as governments and multinational corporations rush to make sure they have a place at the table. And yet, sports come from humble beginnings. We are fascinated by who can run the fastest, lift the most weight, jump the highest, swim the farthest, and act with the most precision. The history of sports is the history of the world. Modern Sports around the World examines 50 of the world's most popular sports. Each chapter features one sport and details that sport's origins, global migration, economic forces, media influences, political environment, pop-culture inspirations, scandalous moments, and key individuals. Sports history is a tapestry of sociological variables; Modern Sports around the World weaves them together to create a unique history book that explains not only where humanity has been, but where it might be going.

Author : Johnny D. Boggs
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781440875564

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Sports on Film by Johnny D. Boggs Pdf

Sports on Film takes readers behind the scenes of how movies get made and puts them in the stands for some of the key moments in sports in America. Sports on Film documents key events in American sports history through the films that depict them, starting with the integration of major-league baseball when Jackie Robinson signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Other significant events and personalities examined include the college basketball point-shaving incident of the 1950s; journalist George Plimpton's attempt to go through the Detroit Lions' NFL training camp in the early 1960s; the originations and popularity of rodeo; the brief run of women's professional baseball during World War II; the underdog racehorse Seabiscuit during the Great Depression; the rise of African American boxer Muhammad Ali; the unique 1970s "Battle of the Sexes" tennis event between Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King; and Ford Motor Company's run in the 1960s to take motorsports to Europe's premier event in Le Mans, France.

Author : David McGee
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781625842039

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Tales of Bristol Motor Speedway by David McGee Pdf

It is known as the "World's Fastest Half-Mile."? For fifty years and counting, Bristol Motor Speedway has been home to some of the most exciting moments in NASCAR, and the track's history is nearly as exciting as the legendary races it has held. From humble beginnings, Bristol Motor Speedway grew to become one of the largest sporting coliseums in the world, with seating for 160, 000. Join author and veteran speedway insider David McGee as he goes behind the scenes to offer a collection of stories that will surprise even the most dedicated fans. Packed with never-before-published photos from the entire history of the track, Tales of Bristol Motor Speedway is a book no racing fan should be without.

Author : Don Garlits
Publisher : Sports Publishing LLC
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781582617749

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Big Daddy Don Garlits Tales from the Drag Strip by Don Garlits Pdf

Drag racing icon Garlits gives a humorous and insightful first-person accountof the many memorable experiences he has lived through in his half-century ofnitromethane-fueled exploits.

Author : Tony Sakkis
Publisher : Motorbooks
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 087938770X

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The Anatomy & Development of the Top Fuel Dragster by Tony Sakkis Pdf

THE ANATOMY & DEVELOPMENT OF THE TOP FUEL DRAGSTER reveals the inner workings of drag racing's premier class. The history of Top Fuel dragsters is traced through the cars and career of Big Daddy Don Garits, the sport's most successful and innovative driver and builder. More than 200 black-and-white photos show the cars in detail, from their massive connecting rods to the stretched-out chassis.