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GOOD READS.(Revs)
Byline: JOE KOVACH
1 Challenger & 'Cuda, Mopar's E-Body Muscle Cars, by Robert Genat, hardbound, 192 pages, Motorbooks, motorbooks.com, $31.46
A history and coffee-table book. "The story of the 1970 E-Body [Chrysler's pony car platform] started in 1957,'' Genat writes. That's when Chrysler put a torsion-bar front suspension on its cars, followed by a unibody in 1960. The glossy color underhood and undercarriage photos are as interesting as the exterior shots, and help explain the engineering, like a reverse shifter arm routed under a crossmember. The book carries on to the car bodies, Trans-Am's AAR 'Cuda and Challenger along with the NHRA Funny Car and inevitably, the decline of muscle cars as environmental laws and insurance rates sapped their power and sales.
2 Quarter-Mile Chaos, Images of Drag Racing Mayhem, by Steve Reyes, hardbound, 179 pages, 227 photos, CarTech, www.cartechbooks.com, $39.95
The cover made us think the book shamelessly offers crashes and engine blowups-a bound version of the screaming, drag-racing radio ads from the '60s. But photographer/author Steve Reyes is legit. He began shooting drag racing in the '60s for the NHRA and magazines, and has ...
- FORCE'S 323-MPH FUNNY CAR REACHING TOP FUEL NUMBERS.(Sports)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) Mclaughlin, Mike July 31, 1998 700+ words
...makes him shake his head in disbelief: A funny car, not a dragster, with the top speed...surprise.'' John Force, the winningest funny car driver in NHRA history and 1997 defending NHRA Winston funny car champion, ran a quarter-mile speed...
- A Force in Her Own Right Atop NHRA Standings; Funny Car Legend's Daughter Is...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Liz Clarke October 9, 2009 700+ words
...John Force, 60, who boasts a record 14 Funny Car championships. Force Hood, the second...as well as every other driver in the Funny Car class. Heading into this weekend's...Nationals in Petersburg, she sits atop the Funny Car standings, with three races remaining...
- Chevrolet Unveils New NHRA Program; Chevy Backs Camaro Funny Car and S-10...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire January 13, 1997 700+ words
...programs featuring its Camaro in the Funny Car class, and its S-10 Pickup in exhibition...Prudhomme Racing's Copenhagen Camaro Funny Car in the team's first outing in that...who makes his first appearance in the Funny Car division after competing two seasons...
- Cristen Powell Receives Keys to JCIT Funny Car.
- Press release article from: Business Wire August 3, 1999 700+ words
...Will Debut Behind the Wheel of the JCIT Funny Car, at the NHRA 12th Annual Autolite National...Powell to step into the seat of the JCIT Funny Car for the remainder of the season and next...to the winner's circle early in her Funny Car career." "I'm honored and flattered...
- CASTROL FUNNY CAR TEAM DENIED FINALS.(Sports)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) Cain, Holly August 2, 1999 700+ words
...Ford Mustangs didn't advance to the Funny Car final round. The two had accounted for...Saturday to drive the JCIT Pontiac Firebird Funny Car, replacing Tim Wilkerson, who was released...still must make one full pass in a Funny Car to get her license for that class of...
- Funny Car behind him, Bazemore keeps his Whit: Whit Bazemore makes the...
- Newspaper article from: Reading Eagle (Reading, PA) August 15, 2007 700+ words
...at Maple Grove Raceway. Instead of a Funny Car, Bazemore will pilot a sleeker Top Fuel...Bazemore said. "I really was a Funny Car person. I looked at the opportunity...much of a difference between driving a Funny Car and a dragster, but it's night and...
- MEET THE NEW BOSS; Gary Scelzi unseats John Force to claim the NHRA Funny Car...
- Magazine article from: AutoWeek Hart, Roger November 14, 2005 700+ words
...the NHRA Finals at Pomona as the only Funny Car driver in the title hunt-the closest...Ron Capps by eight points and 13-time Funny Car champion John Force by 32. As an exclamation...Scelzi needed some help to claim his first Funny Car title. Qualifying No. 1 put Scelzi...
- Veteran driver Capps still chasing his first title; NHRA Northwest Nationals;...
- Newspaper article from: The Seattle Times (Seattle, WA) July 18, 2009 700+ words
...won a world championship. Capps has 29 Funny Car event wins, plus one in Top Fuel, but...five event titles and is tied for the Funny Car points lead with Ashley Force Hood...another 22 wins as a driver in Top Fuel and Funny Car. "Truth be told, I'm not even thinking...
Source: HighBeam Research, GOOD READS.(Revs)