Snake Vs. Mongoose: How a Rivalry Changed Drag Racing Forever
Author : Tom Madigan
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Page : 162 pages
File Size : 24,36 MB
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ISBN : 1616730439
Author : Tom Madigan
Publisher :
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 24,36 MB
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ISBN : 1616730439
Author : Elana Scherr
Publisher : CarTech Inc
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 14,67 MB
Release : 2020-10-16
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1613255187
Don "The Snake" Prudhomme reveals for the first time ever his incredible life and career on and off of the drag strip.
Imagine spending a year with Don "The Snake" Prudhomme, having coffee together and talking about his life, his racing, his friends, and his family. He’d tell you about how he rose from being a high school drop-out who was painting cars to a respected Top Fuel dragster driver and successful businessman. You’d hear how he toured the country with Tommy Ivo and "The Hawaiian" Roland Leong, racing all the legends from "Big Daddy" Don Garlits to "The Golden Greek" [Chris] Karamesines. He'd say how he met Tom McEwen and recall how they became the Snake and the Mongoose, leading to a career in Funny Cars that netted him four championships in a row. He'd talk about the thrill of first wins and owning his own teams but also the struggles of bad seasons, crashes and fires, broken parts, and broken contracts. Along the way, he’d speak about the people in his life, such as engine-builder Keith Black and NHRA president Wally Parks, and those who were killed in the wild and unpredictable sport of nitro racing. It wouldn’t be only racing, though. Prudhomme would share lessons he learned about business and life from such varied sources as a neighbor in Granada Hills to Ford GT40 driver Dan Gurney. He also would talk about the importance of family: how his wife, Lynn, and daughter, Donna, changed his world and how finding out about his African-American roots opened his eyes to a culture and inheritance he’d always wanted. This is the experience you’ll get in Don "The Snake" Prudhomme: My Life Beyond the 1320.
Author : Thomas J. Madigan
Publisher : Motorbooks International
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 10,19 MB
Release : 2012-08-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0760342199
Ever since its introduction in 1955, Chevrolet's small-block V-8 has defined performance. It was the first lightweight, overhead-valve V-8 engine ever available to the masses at an affordable price and, better yet, had tremendous untapped performance potential, making it the performance engine of choice to this day. What sets the Chevy small-block further apart is the fact that a builder does not have to spend big money to get big horsepower numbers. Using multiple examples of engine builds and case studies, The Chevrolet Small-Block Bible provides the reader with the information needed to build anything for a mild street engine for use in a custom or daily driver to a cost-is-no-object dream build. Includes parts selection, blue printing, basic machine work, and more.
Author : Phillip Gary Smith
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 12,85 MB
Release : 2018-04-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1642556378
"Phillip sees things in a different light and has a way of conveying his thoughts to a legion of fans that read his column, including the subjects he sometimes had to criticize. That takes a unique writer." Rob Geiger, Managing Partner, Geiger Media Global, Inc. What's it like to be a maniac on a mission? From the worlds of performance engineering, product development, drag racing, auto racing and human creativity, go beyond with THE ECLECTIC 18. Learn tipping points key to the success of The Justice Brothers oil empire uncovered only here. Realize lessons from Funny Car NHRA pioneer John Force's rise to racing supremacy and how his success
Author : Bo Bertilsson
Publisher : Motorbooks International
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,50 MB
Release : 2009-07-10
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0760335443
The first illustrated history of the Brizios and their street rods, which have defined modern hot rodding for more than twenty years.
Author : Giles Slade
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 20,27 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0674043758
Made to Break is a history of twentieth-century technology as seen through the prism of obsolescence. Giles Slade explains how disposability was a necessary condition for America's rejection of tradition and our acceptance of change and impermanence. This book gives us a detailed and harrowing picture of how, by choosing to support ever-shorter product lives, we may well be shortening the future of our way of life as well.
Author : Sir Richard Francis Burton
Publisher :
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 45,23 MB
Release : 1860
Category : Africa, Central
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The ivory porter; Zanzibar town from the sea; A town on the Mrima; Explorers in East Africa; The East African Ghauts; View in Unyamwezi
Author : Swami Adgadanand
Publisher : Shree Paramhans Swami Adgadanandji Ashram Trust
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 35,33 MB
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Realisaiton of the God, incarnation and medium of their divine speech are only the great and enlightened sages. With this fact in mind, the propitious like sketch of Rev. Paramhans Ji Maharaj Ji is being published for the spiritual development of the humanity at large. The ideal life, miraculous events, the Barahmasi to uplift and enlighten the self – realisation, Glimpses of Discourses, Super – human powers and faculties are included in this work. This book will provide guidance to the persons treading the path of life and when they accept the directions set in, attain the greatest of the ultimate aims. This work endeavours to explain the ancient traditional spiritual truth and the path of ultimate bliss. Hence, you shall be able to get the divine inspiration from this book as to how and where to search for the Truth.
Author : Boy Scouts of America
Publisher :
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 49,25 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Boy Scouts
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Author : Margaret Bunson
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 45,20 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1438109970
An A-Z reference providing concise and accessible information on Ancient Egypt from its predynastic cultures to the suicide of Cleopatra and Mark Anthony in the face of the Roman conquest. Annotation. Bunson (an author of reference works) has revised her 1991 reference (which is appropriate for high school and public libraries) to span Egypt's history from the predynastic period to the Roman conquest. The encyclopedia includes entries for people, sites, events, and concepts as well as featuring lengthy entries or inset boxes on major topics such as deities, animals, and the military. A plan and photograph are included for each of the major architectural sites.