Customer Reviews

Pro Sports Car Racing in America 1958-1974

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

Some really good photographs and, at times a good account of the object of same. ABSOLUTELY lacking of what races where run at what time and all of the accompaning data that you would, and have come to expect from a book such as as this.

As such, if you try to correlate the data from other books with the non-existant data from this book.............

Really nothing more than a 'magazine article' which had been given limited pages......

A limited volume, which only leads us to wait, and hope for someone else to do a complete job on this subject.

Dennis

As others have mentioned, the photos are great. They do a great job of showing the state and conditions of sports car racing at the time. So if the photos are great, why only three stars?

Because the content beyond that is really light. I'm too young to have seen these cars the first time(36 now) but have seen many of them at vintage events. While pictures of a field full of three different types of Lotus are enjoyable to look at, there's no explanation as to what makes them different. The same is true for all the marques. Also missing is much detail from or about the drivers and teams.

Finally, the book has a decided West Coast bias. I've been to Road Atlanta several times and live a short drive from Road America but found few photos from either of these tracks.

It's not bad, but you'll need some other reference material to fill in the dead air around the great images.

This is a Really Nice Pictorial.. Of a Bygone era..Many who did not have the pleasure to see these cool cars myself included get a Chance at it.Before Sponsors and Rude People took it over.Not as many Corvette Pics as I would like, but interesting nonetheless. Mr.Friedman, Thank you, And Consider Doing another Corvette Racing book!

If you like pictures that show everything about the racing scene in the early 60's Dave has captured the scene. Great photography.

What a great photo-history of TRUE sports car racing. Great photos that Friedman shot himself during that historic time fill the book. This will be a favorite book for racing fans, historians, modelers and slot car racers alike. Highly recommend this and all of Friedman's other photo-history styled books.