Long Straights and Hairpin Turns The History of Northwest Sports Car Racing Volume 1 1950 through 1961
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You`ve got to have this over-the-top Pacific Northwest sports car racing history book. Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia. Cad Allards and Porsches to Poguars and Rattenbury Specials. Lew Florence, Dave Tatom, Jerry Grant, Ray Rairdon, Pete Lovely, and all the rest. Abbotsford to Mary Hill to Tillamook to Shelton and all stops in between. The great races, the fascinating people, the wonderful cars and the controversies that made up an unforgettable era. Captured in loving detail by Vintage Drift editor Martin Rudow and the men and women who lived it.
200 pages. Big 10" X 9" coffee-table format on glossy stock, hard cover with full color dust jacket and color throughout. With year-by-year race coverage and hundreds of rare and over 500 previously unpublished photos, badge bars, patches, pit passes, program covers and more. Printed in the USA.
Customer Review: provides what it promises
The text is well written and reads easily, although it is slightly encyclopedic. The book manages to try to document all the racing that went on in the years it covers while at the same time placing the bare facts into context with some anecdotes about the drivers and the cars. But what really makes it a five-star book is the collection of photographs and other historical documents.
I suspect that it would not be of general interest, but as someone who is involved in the current-day Pacific Northwest sports car driving scene, I find the history to be fascinating. I'm very much looking forward to the next volume.
This book was published in only very limited numbers and was (as far as I know) self-distributed by the author. That makes it hard to find.