The Kurtis-Kraft Story
Author | : Ed Hitze |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Automobiles, Racing |
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Author | : Ed Hitze |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Automobiles, Racing |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ed Hitze |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1978 |
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Author | : Gordon Eliot White |
Publisher | : Motorbooks |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780760309100 |
Working out of his shop in Glendale, California, Frank Kurtis changed the face of American racing, producing hundreds of innovative midget, sprint, champ and Indy cars from 1935 to 1963. This photohistory examines the entire range of Kurtis-Kraft racers, with emphasis on cars that campaigned the Indianapolis 500 -- Kurtis-Kraft cars won the event five out of six years from 1950 to 1955, and in 1956, 21 of the 33 cars that started at the Brickyard were built by Kurtis. Fabulous period photos depict the cars, while White explains Kurtis innovations like longer wheelbases and lowered centers of gravity, as well as design follies that never panned out. Race records of cars and the men who drove them for Kurtis are also included.
Author | : Gordon White |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2000-10-14 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : |
The definitive book on Kurtis championship cars, showcasing all 111 full-size ''champ'' cars that Frank Kurtis built between 1941 and 1963. Most of these cars were built specifically to race at Indianapolis. In fact, Kurtis' cars won the Indianapolis 500 five years out of six (1950-1955), and dominated the starting field from 1950 through 1958. Kurtis pioneered the ''roadster'' design, in which the engine was offset in the car, allowing the driver to sit much lower, reducing the height of the car and thus wind resistance. Roadsters were the last front-engine cars before the 1965 rear-engine revolution, and they are remembered with much nostalgia. Also see engineering drawings of the cars as well as dramatic starting field photos and crash photos. An appendix detailing car and engine serial numbers will add to your enjoyment.
Author | : Ray Hoy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2018-09-30 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780982899946 |
The history of four generations of the well-known automotive and racing Justice family.
Author | : Bill Montgomery |
Publisher | : Witness Prod |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1999-12-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9781891390029 |
Author | : Terry Reed |
Publisher | : Potomac Books, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1597973912 |
In a nation that worships the automobile for the freedom, style, and status that it confers, the Indianapolis 500, run on or near Memorial Day eighty-seven times, is an annual rite of passage celebrating Americans' love affair with speed. Indy recounts the drivers (677 men and 3 women) who have gone to Indianapolis in the past ninety-five years to live their dreams, staking their lives on the outcome. It highlights the faces in the crowd: hardworking Americans, tinhorn celebrities, hookers, movie stars, gate-crashers, and five American presidents. Terry Reed focuses his narrative on the track's four quarter-mile-long turns, each the site of triumphs (including those of such multiple winners as Billy Vukovich, A. J. Foyt, and Helio Castroneves); grisly deaths (at least sixty-six, including three unrelated men of the same unusual last name who died in the same turn but in different decades); and bizarre heroics (like the sans souci French driver who downed champagne throughout the 1913 Indy 500 and still won). Reed also examines Indy's confluence of racing and aeronautics (World War I flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker once owned the track) and the impact upon the event of such forces as segregation, gender politics, food, fads, publicity stunts, world-class partying, and tasteless pop culture. Indy takes readers on an entertaining, full-throttle ride through the history of one of the world's most famous races and one of America's most hallowed rituals. It is the definitive account of the crown jewel of American motorsports.
Author | : Bill Montgomery |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 167 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Midget cars (Automobiles) |
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Author | : Karl Ludvigsen |
Publisher | : Enthusiast Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2000-04-21 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9781583880180 |
Journey into Gasoline Alley during one of the most evocative and exciting eras in the history of the great Speedway - the years of the Kurtis Roadsters, the lay-downs, the first Watsons, the formidable Novis, the V-12 Ferrari, the Bardahl-Ferrari, the Blue Crowns and the invincible Offys. Stunning photographs feature the cars, their engines, and their designs in amazing detail.
Author | : Tom Madigan |
Publisher | : Ejje Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Drag racing |
ISBN | : 9780982899908 |