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Book review.(Review)(Book Review)
Byline: BILL McGUIRE
Holman-Moody: The Legendary Race Team, by Tom Cotter and Al Pearce, hardbound, 160 pages, MBI Publishing, (800) 826-6600, www.motorbooks.com, $39.95
Newly arrived NASCAR fans might look upon the sport's blue-collar, bib-overall roots and assume big-time factory involvement in stock car racing is a recent development. Not so. For Ford racers in the 1960s, Holman-Moody Inc. was The Pipe: a large-diameter, factory-sponsored conduit delivering all the latest trick parts and pieces straight from the back door at Dearborn to the shop's front door at the Charlotte airport. At its high point the company employed 300 people, all busy developing, manufacturing and distributing Ford performance parts, and served as the apprenticeship program for many of Winston Cup's biggest names, from Robert Yates to Humpy Wheeler. PR man Tom Cotter and AutoWeek NASCAR correspondent Al Pearce have produced a wonderful new book that tells the story: Holman-Moody: The Legendary Race Team.
Ralph Moody and John Holman were two very different people, with very different talents. Moody was the technical wizard, Holman the promoter and money man, and though they made formidable business partners, the truth is they didn't always get along. "Time heals all wounds, so I've purposely decided to steer clear of the disagreements that occurred between John and Ralph,'' writes Cotter in his introduction. Fair enough. It's still a fascinating story, and generously illustrated with period photos by Don Hunter.
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