Holman Moody The Legendary Race Team [Hardcover]

Tom Cotter (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 5, 2003

One of the greatest NASCAR racing teams of all time is vividly chronicled, from the day racer Ralph Moody teamed up with John Holman to create the Holman-Moody team. This stunning volume details the formation, development, and transformation of Holman Moody into a 1960s and early '70s dynasty, and looks at their turn-key racecars and stock car racing innovations. Detailed appendices list HM sponsored cars stats from Winston Cup and Grand National races.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 248 pages
• Publisher: Motorbooks; 1st edition (January 5, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0760308756
• ISBN-13: 978-0760308752
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 9.8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,840,628 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

A regular contributor to Road & Track, Tom Cotter is the author of two bestselling automotive-rescue books, The Cobra in the Barn and The Hemi in the Barn. He also is the co-author of an award-winning history of the legendary race team Holman-Moody. Before focusing on writing, Cotter built one of the most successful PR agencies in motorsports, with a client list that included NASCAR, Mercedes-Benz, Ford, Dodge, Pontiac, BMW, and SPEED channel. He currently serves as co-chairman of the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance and lives in Davidson, North Carolina.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Missing Information, April 21, 2004

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Charlie (Smithtown, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Holman Moody The Legendary Race Team (Hardcover)

Although the book chronicles the lives of one of the great car building and racing teams, it leaves out an integral part of the story. The author states, " I've purposely decided to steer clear of the politics and disagreements that occurred between John (Holman) and Ralph (Moody)." The author talks about all of the people who asked him to "concentrate on the positive."

Can you imagine if every book was written this way? Although one learns alot about their relationship with Ford and the drivers, what's missing is the details of what made Holman & Moody such an intersting and dynamic combination.

For $40, one would expect the whole story.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Incomplete, October 2, 2009

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John Mccarrier (Ohio, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Holman Moody The Legendary Race Team (Hardcover)

Holman Moody was an important part of the American auto racing scene for decades. The company deserves a quality presentation their part in American auto racing history similar to Alan Hummel's recent book on Penske. Instead readers get a coffee table book with wide margins, too little text, huge pictures with long captions that simply repeat portions of the text, and a gaudy graphic design from 1955 using pages and pages of deep red. Forcing readers to read black type on a red background is dumb.

The core of the book should be NASCAR but that material is buried in chapters on drag racing Mustangs, GT40's, road racing Falcons, Can-Am cars, and boats. These are all interesting chapters but they should be in addition to, not instead of, a comprehensive presentation of H-M in NASCAR. The NASCAR chapters are very personality oriented at the expense of technical information.

The authors seem to realize that the book is incomplete so they added several appendices, framed in the same ugly red. The second appendix, all ford and mercury victories, 1958 to 1971, is pointless.

Readers can only hope that this book won't keep other publishers from bringing out a better book on the same topic.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Holman & Moody deserve better., December 27, 2004

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Rugger (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Holman Moody The Legendary Race Team (Hardcover)

Overall the book has nice design, photos, and production but is sorely lacking in proof reading and editing. There are numerous and repeated examples of incorrect spellings. Some examples: Ford Galaxie is incorrectly spelled in book as "Galaxy" and driver Rodger Ward's name spelled "Roger." The authors were either sloppy or the proof reading nonexistent. It makes you wonder about the accuracy of other data.