Merchants of Speed: The Men Who Built America's Performance Industry
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (644 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0760335672 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-26 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Indepth Book Covers many who were responsible for "speed". Very indepth account of each merchant. Many high-quality photos. A must in one's automotive library.. nitro robbie said the formative years of speed equipment. great reading about all the early speed equipment manufactures,as a young boy in australia we where starved of lot of print media. my dad and eddie thomas opened the very first speed shop in australia in 1958.. Outstanding! Pandora This is a very detail oriented book with literally hundreds of stories and references about manyvery famous people in the racing world.Excellent book.
Hot rodding has always been about taking something that Detroit built and making it leaner and faster. At the epicenter of the movement was a cast of driven men who designed and manufactured the parts that made it all possible. This book takes an appreciative look back at the early hot rodders who worked out of their garages, basements, and backyards, and the “speed equipment” they developed. In this mammoth volume, Paul Smith examines the stories behind two dozen speed equipment manufacturers and the go-fast goodies they designed, developed, and sold. Drawing upon hundreds of hours of interviews conducted with these founding fathers of hot rodding, Smith details the work of industry icons such as Iskenderian, Edelbrock, Evans, Hilborn, Navarro, Offenhauser, Sharp, Weiand, Ansen, and Kong. Illustrated with more than 200 period photos and filled with firsthand accounts of the birth of hot rodding—and the automotive aftermarket industry—this book is a truly fitting celebration of the names that became synonymous with speed.
Unlike previous efforts to illuminate such figures, Smith spends a good deal of time and space on each subject, shortchanging nobody. Smith also illustrates the book with well-chosen photos (250 total black and whites, spread over 240 pages) that show the subjects in their natural habitats — their shops, the dragstrips or the dry lakes.” - Hemmings E-Weekly Newsletter. “Smith’s selections range from the guys known to any gearhead (Vic Edelbrock) to those known only by devoted students of hot rod history (Nick Brajevich and Wayne Horning among them)