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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Det här är en av LibraryThings förhandsrecensioner. I liked this book. It was a very intersting book about the history of drag racing and taught me a lot about the sport as a whole. I entered to win this book in the hopes that it would help inform me on the sport, since my husband takes a great interest in racing. It was an interesting read and very informative. Det här är en av LibraryThings förhandsrecensioner. This wasn't my type of book. It's a book about drag racing. I couldn't get into it so im not really sure about the whole story. Det här är en av LibraryThings förhandsrecensioner. I built model cars in my youth with an interest in dragsters. I remembering building a model of the Swamp Rat when Don Garlits built his first rear engine dragster. Steve Reyes captures the cars and drivers that held my attention in my teenage years. The book is short on indepth stories, but it captures the highlights of the development of the sport. The photographs are the real treasure of the book. I highly recommend it for racing fans. Det här är en av LibraryThings förhandsrecensioner. CarTech publishing does it again with a well produced product. The author Reyes has written a beautifully illustrated history of modern drag racing. Filled with excellent text and fantastic photos. This is almost a coffee table book. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
In general terms, drag racing is the fastest form of motor racing; within drag racing, Top Fuel is the fastest of the classes. Top Fuel has always been the leading class in terms of technology, cost, excitement, and speed. Over the years, technology has changed greatly. What started out as a flathead engine, four wheels, frame rails, and a steering wheel has morphed into technological wonders producing horsepower figures in the thousands and running supercharged nitromethane cars over the quarter-mile in the 4-second range. Over the course of the evolution of these technological developments in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Top Fuelers were making enough horsepower so that sitting directly behind the engine, as the "diggers" did in the 1950s through the 1960s, was recognized as a fairly dangerous proposition for the driver. Any blower explosion or clutch and bellhousing failure occured directly in the face of the pilot. Teams and engineers developed the rear-engine layout that is still in use today, where the engine sits behind the driver but in front of the rear wheels. Industry legend and veteran journalist Steve Reyes was there through all the technological changes; he has the photos, anecdotes, quotes, and tales of the era. He discusses it all, including the experimentation that led to incredibly exciting racing and wild mishaps. Join him in the pages of this book where he shares all the stories of this incredible racing era. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
Deltog i LibraryThing FörhandsrecensenterSteve Reyess bok Top Fuel Dragsters: Drag Racing's Rear-Engine Revolution delades ut via LibraryThing Early Reviewers. Pågående diskussionerIngen/inga
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This book is loaded with history and mostly vintage black-and-white photography, walking through the history of the railed top fuel dragster and how the rear-engine placement changed everything. If your'e a racing enthusiast, you can do much worse that to buy this book - lots of great content here.
My only complaint is the binding - I can understand the perfect binding (glued) being used for a manual but this subject is more deserving of something sewn.
Full disclosure, I received this book as part of LibraryThing's Early Reviewer program some time ago and only recently finished reading it. ( )