This is a re-release of the original version published in 2007. There wasn't always a class for these funny-looking cars. In the mid 1960s, many of drag racing s fastest drivers were outgrowing the Super Stock and Factory Experimental classes, building cars that stretched and eventually broke the rules. Promoters discovered they could pair up these altered-wheelbase, injected, blown machines in exhibition match races and the spectators came running. Rivalries were born, the Funny Car class was created, and the cars kept getting faster and faster. Funny Car Fever is a humorous, heart-felt, first-hand account of the most exciting and memorable years of the Funny Car class. Steve Reyes followed these fiberglass-bodied, nitro burning machines and their drivers from the years leading up to the creation of the Funny Car class through its halcyon days. He s included over 350 of his favorite images and more than a few never-before-heard stories to bring the feeling of the class and the era home to you.
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The book is of the utmost quality, and if you are like us, flipping through the pages will be a mesmerizing blast fromt he past. --Mike Kelly's Cruise News, July 2007
Steve Reyes takes us back to a magical era lost in the mist of time. If you love early Funny Cars and the history of our sport, you will want Funny Car Fever in your library. --Drag Review Magazine, reviewed by Jim Marchyshyn, May 2007
These are not just collections of old photos, these are fantastically illustrated history books written by someone who shared the passion of the drivers and the racecar builders of the time. --Custom Car (UK), reviewed by Mike Pye, June 2008
Steve Reyes takes us back to a magical era lost in the mist of time. If you love early Funny Cars and the history of our sport, you will want Funny Car Fever in your library. --Drag Review Magazine, reviewed by Jim Marchyshyn, May 2007
These are not just collections of old photos, these are fantastically illustrated history books written by someone who shared the passion of the drivers and the racecar builders of the time. --Custom Car (UK), reviewed by Mike Pye, June 2008
Steve Reyes takes us back to a magical era lost in the mist of time. If you love early Funny Cars and the history of our sport, you will want Funny Car Fever in your library. --Drag Review Magazine, reviewed by Jim Marchyshyn, May 2007
These are not just collections of old photos, these are fantastically illustrated history books written by someone who shared the passion of the drivers and the racecar builders of the time. --Custom Car (UK), reviewed by Mike Pye, June 2008
Steve Reyes takes us back to a magical era lost in the mist of time. If you love early Funny Cars and the history of our sport, you will want Funny Car Fever in your library. --Drag Review Magazine, reviewed by Jim Marchyshyn, May 2007
These are not just collections of old photos, these are fantastically illustrated history books written by someone who shared the passion of the drivers and the racecar builders of the time. --Custom Car (UK), reviewed by Mike Pye, June 2008
About the Author
Steve Reyes is one of the most published automotive photographers from the 1960s to the 1990s with over 300 magazine covers and a multitude of features within a number of automotive magazines. Reyes is one of four photographers inducted into the International Drag Racing Hall of Fame. He resides in Florida.
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If you love drag racing, this book is for you. It gives the history of funny cars up to and including present drivers. A must for drag racing fans.
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Steve Reyes is the photo king of the drag racing world. Awesome photos of the 1960's thru early 1980's of all the great funnys and lots of obscure ones too. Must have for drag racing fans interested in the rich history of the sport before all the corporate p.c. crap of the current day. Wild and wooly the way it really was.
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I have been a fan of Funny Cars since my first race at the OCIR Manufacturers meet in 1970. Steve has always taken the greatest action shots. The pictures in this book are no exception. Due to the memories it brings back, this is one book that I will keep coming back to forever.
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