Vintage American Road Racing Cars 1950-1970

About this book

American road racing began just after World War II and quickly blossomed into a movement. The Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) and the United States Auto Club (USAC) clubs that became fierce rivals in the 1950s and 1960s were the principal race promoters. Race tracks popped up everywhere at first on city streets then at airports and U.S. Air Force bases and finally at purpose-built circuits like Road America and Laguna Seca.Although most of the cars that competed in American road racing were built in Europe an underground movement sprang up of "special builders" who constructed their racers in home garages and small-town machine shops. Some were so homely and slow that only the builders could love them. Others trounced every Ferrari in sight and are now on the wish lists of wealthy collectors the world over.Vintage American Road Racing Cars 1950-1970 is the first book devoted exclusively to American road racing cars of all types and sizes. Hundreds of race cars built in America have never before been mentioned in print and this book chronicles those and other cars with vintage and modern photography specifications memorabilia and the stories and characters behind each car.About the AuthorHarold Paces writing and photography has appeared in such magazines as Automobile Quarterly Class & Sportscar Excellence Sports Car International Vintage Racecar Journal and others. He lives in Weatherford Texas. Mark Brinker is a vintage race car enthusiast who has raced at the Monterey Historics. He is a doctor with three published medical textbooks and 70 published scientific papers. He hails from Houston Texas.