Drag Racing's Exhibition Attractions: From Rockets to Ramp-Jumps
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This book showcases photographically the wide variety of cars and drivers that fit into the exhibition theme: the jets, wheelstanders, rockets and other exhibition vehicles which have thrilled millions of spectators. Their entire basis was who had the fastest vehicle. But in 1959 complaints from other competitors and Detroit automakers got all aircraft-powered dragsters banned, so they became the sideshow attached to the legitimate circus that is drag racing. The Green Monster became the first exhibition car exceeding 200 mph everywhere it ran. Wanting even more, Walt Arfons debuted the first jet-powered dragster which became the desire of every fan and promoter throughout the country. At virtually the same instant, Tom Ivo had Kent Fuller build a four-engine dragster and although it was too heavy to be competitive, the tire-smoke show became arguably the most famous exhibition car in history. See Bill "Maverick" Golden and the Little Red Wagon, "Wild Bill" Shrewsberry's and the Hurst Hemi Under Glass, LA Dart and Knott's Berry Wagon, Chuck Poole and his Chuckwagon, Doug Rose and The Green Mamba, plus many more.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1583882081
ISBN13:9781583882085
Release Date:May 2008
Publisher:Enthusiast Books
Length:96 Pages
Weight:0.75 lbs.
Dimensions:0.3" x 8.3" x 9.0"
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