Tom,
The book Louise wrote is the one Motorbooks International originally
intended for Dean Batchelor to write. He died before he completed The
American Hot Rod for them but it was down to final editing and apparently
didn't make much difference in the final result. I would have loved to see
him write the Bonneville book because of his insights and involvement with
what happened there from 1949 on.
A beautiful book on automotive art is Motoring; The Golden Years by Rupert
Prior. It covers the first fifty years of automobile art. Stan Wanlass
turned me on to that one among so many others. His web site is stanley
wanlass.com and shows his bronzes which are really great when you can just
touch and discover the little things that make them so collectable, and
expensive. Another great book is the Fifty Years of Road and Track ... with
quality reproductions of illustrations by some of the greatest automotive
illustrators of our time.
Wes
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> From: "Thomas E. Bryant" <saltracer@awwwsome.com>
> To: Glen Barrett <speedtimer@earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: Another Book
> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 08:04:29 -0800
>
>Glen,
>This is good, letting us know of books of interest to all of us. I just
>looked in my library for some titles to share. "When The Hot Rods Ran"
>by William Carroll, a book about Muroc. "Hot Rods in the Forties & "Hot
>Rods as They Were" by Bob Montgomery. "Tex Smith's Hot Rod History" by
>Tom Medley is another very good book with lots of shots of people
>working on their cars, etc. Names that most all Bonneville Racers will
>recognize.
>Tom
>
>I am told that Dean Batchelor has a book on Bonneville out also, I
>intend to check at Barnes & Noble today. I will let the list know about
>this one later.
>
>Glen Barrett wrote:
>>
>> I just picked up another book covering land speed racing. The Name,
>> Speed Achievments
>> (Land Sea & Air) Author is Richard Graves. Basically it is the Castrol
>> story of their support of all types of racing. Lots of neat photos and
>> many old posters they made over the years. I am looking into
>> re-productions to see if any are availble. They also have a great web
>> site. Something for your sparetime. www.castrol.com.
>> Enjoy
>> Glen
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