City of Speed: Los Angeles and the Rise of American Racing - Couverture rigide

Scalzo, Joe

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0760327203 ISBN 13 : 9780760327203

Editeur : Motorbooks, 2007

Synopsis

"City of Speed" traces Southern California's racers and speed merchants from the early days of hopped-up Model Ts to todays performance supercars and tomorrows phenomena, a trend that has spread world-wide. With details of race shops, speed parts companies, racers, millionaire sportsmen, hot rod artists and fabricators, and the myriad tracks, bars, clubs, and meets where performance car history happens at top speed, this is a title that no fan of racing will wish to do without.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

'Straininig with vitality, LA's big and belly-laughing family would ride out the 20th centuary mingling and networking like a pack of frenzied lab rodents set loose in a wild think tank of speed'. Joe Scalzo's colourfull proze is worth the cover price along, but his exotic tale of of Los Angeles role in American racing is so varied and well illustrated that no real aficiando would consider his library complete without it. --The Independant

Scalzo uses a lot of nicknames and odd subject refrences throughout the book, so it's an attentive read. Excellent photography is provided on nearly every page, with captions to supplememnt the text. City of Speed truly dives headfirst into the LA Racing scene, meaning even the knowlegable racing fan is sure to learn something new --Gayotdot com

this work is a nice corretive to many books flooding the market in recent years taht often insinuated that the South was the only area of the coutry with swashbuckling automotive 'cowboys'. City Of Speed makes a good case that the West Coast Auto scene was ( and is) as colourfull and full of characters as NASCAR country --Motorsport dot com

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Motorbooks
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0760327203
• ISBN 13: 9780760327203
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible