We Were the Ramchargers: Inside Drag Racing's Legendary Team - Couverture rigide

Rockwell, David

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 076801932X ISBN 13 : 9780768019322

Editeur : SAE International, 2009

Synopsis

Reveals the personalities and achievements of the Chrysler engineers who, from the 1950s through the 1970s, became one of the most successful and influential drag racing teams of all time.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This book takes you behind the scenes with the group of Chrysler engineers who, from the 1950s through the 1970s, became one of the most successful and influential drag racing teams of all time. The only team of engineers from an automobile manufacturer to drag race successfully, the Ramchargers broke the most time barriers in drag racing history and earned the most National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) Super Stock titles during the sport s golden era of factory competition. Dave Rockwell, a Ramcharger himself, interviewed more than 40 team members, competitors, and track operators for We Were the Ramchargers, the first book to provide inside details on all elements of the Ramchargers story. In addition to chronicling the races they won and legendary cars they developed (including the High and Mighty, 426 Hemi, and first Funny Car), Rockwell opens corporate and personal files to take readers behind the doors at Chrysler (showing, among other things, how the Ramchargers helped pioneer the platform team concept), while revealing the personalities of the men who made it all happen.

Biographie de l'auteur

David Rockwell PhD is an Adjunct Professor of Clinical Psychology at Michigan State University. He also maintains a full-time psychoanalytic psychotherapy practice in East Lansing, Michigan where he resides with his wife Mary and sons, Christopher and Jeffrey. He has authored a number of scientific papers and participates with several professional organizations. By age 5, he had become involved with soapbox derby cars, eventually building go karts and later disassembling and reassembling (with varying degrees of success) several cars. By mid-teens, he began an association with the Ramchargers with whom he worked and raced for over a decade. He also participated with Paul Gentilozzi's Dodge sponsored Pro Stock and Trans Am programs. More recently, he founded Kart Kinetics, an original design kart racing component company, winning several World Karting Association Championships.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SAE International
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 076801932X
• ISBN 13: 9780768019322
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 302
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible