Funny Car Match Racing - East
By: John Shapiro
It's a unique look at the match racing funny cars that roamed the Eastern, Midwestern and Southern tracks during the late 60's and 70's. These "self sponsored" asphalt gypsies did it for love, going from track to track - 3 and maybe 4 times a week. It's over 150 pictures but intriquing stories from track promoters that booked 'em and the booking agents that signed them as well as memories from various drivers and team members. There's a special chapter on the Coca-Cola Cavalcade of Stars (see pic below) that tells of who and how the series from '69 -'76 began and grew.
If you remember the Boston Shaker, the Eastern Raider, Jungle Jim, the Damn Yankee, Color Me Gone, the Motown Shaker, Mr. Norm, and the Frantic Ford then you were there watching a Funny Car Match Race somewhere East of the Mississippi. Rave Reviews from DragRacingOnLine, DragList.com, CompetitionPlus.com and Drag Racer Magazine.
Northern Ohio Drag Racing Memories I
An Illustrated History of Northern Ohio Drag Racers
By: John Shapiro
Foreword by: “Gentleman” Joe Schubeck
Volume I of Ohio Drag Racing Memories is an illustrated history of Northern Ohio’s drag racing pioneers as they appeared in the pages of the Cruisin’ Times Magazine.
Names like: “Gentleman” Joe Schubeck, “Fast Eddie” Schartman and the Hrudka Brothers, companies like Mr. Gasket and Lakewood Industries, car clubs like the Choppers Hot Rod Association and drag strips all over the Midwest, helped usher in a cadre of young men and women who would help make drag racing what it is today.
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Northern Ohio Drag Racing Memories II
An Illustrated History of Northern Ohio Drag Racers
By: John Shapiro
Volume II of Ohio Drag Racing Memories is an illustrated history of Northern Ohio’s drag racing pioneers like Barbara Hamilton, Ken Veney, Virgil Cates, Ed Schartman, Chuck Finders & Larry Sikora.
Take a trip back to the 60's when Northern Ohio was a hot rod bed of drag racing. Read about what brought the end of the gasser and fuel altered era, the evolution of Super Stock into ProStock and how nostalgia is coming back to drag strips all over America.
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