This book takes you behind the scenes with the group of Chrysler engineers who, from the 1950s through the 1970s, became one of the most successful and influential drag racing teams of all time. The only team of engineers from an automobile manufacturer to drag race successfully, the Ramchargers broke the most time barriers in drag racing history and earned the most National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) Super Stock titles during the sport's golden era of factory competition.
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David Rockwell PhD (Michigan State University ' 70, ' 76, ' 83), is an Adjunct Professor of Clinical Psychology at Michigan State University. He also maintains a full-time psychoanalytic psychotherapy practice in East Lansing, Michigan where he resides with his wife Mary and sons, Christopher and Jeffrey. He has authored a number of scientific papers and participates with several professional organizations. By age 5, he had become involved with soapbox derby cars, eventually building go karts and later disassembling and reassembling (with varying degrees of success) several cars. By mid-teens, he began an association with the Ramchargers with whom he worked and raced for over a decade. He also participated with Paul Gentilozzi's Dodge sponsored Pro Stock and Trans Am programs. More recently, he founded Kart Kinetics, an original design kart racing component company, winning several World Karting Association Championships.
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If you lived the '60s, or just wish you did!,
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This review is from: We Were the Ramchargers: Inside Drag Racing's Legendary Team (Hardcover)
I was a car nut and amateur drag racer in the late '60s - early '70s, and I was also a MoPar guy, so the Ramchargers, along with Sox & Martin and Dick Landy, were my heroes. I followed them in NHRA's "National Dragster" newspaper and all the car magazines, watched them on ABC's "Wide World of Sports," and even saw them run in person a couple of times (I lived a long way from their base of operations, and we seldom ventured into each other's parts of the world). So, as an old racer and a collector of Chrysler racing memorabilia, I had to have this book. It is beyond my expectations. Not only is it a very personal and detailed account of the Ramchargers car club, its cars, its members and their racing efforts, but it starts with a good account of Chrysler Corporation history, leading up to the formation of the Ramchargers in the '50s and the "golden age" of Chrysler drag racing, which ran roughly from 1962 to 1974. I had not realized how much the Ramchargers were actually responsible for Chrysler's "golden age" and for much else that is now taken for granted in drag racing. If you're an old Ramchargers fan, a MoPar drag racer, a Chrysler Corp. or drag racing history buff, someone nostalgic for the '60s, or a modern-day racer who would just like to know where it all came from, this book is a great read, and it's also full of photos of the men, their machines, and some legendary races.
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This review is from: We Were the Ramchargers: Inside Drag Racing's Legendary Team (Hardcover)
Dave Rockwell's first-person account of the Ramchargers from beginning to end is, without question, the best book ever written on the subject. Having grown up in the sixties and seen the Ramchargers in action personally, this book is dead-on accurate and should be on every Mopar fan's booklist and coffee table. Was just excellent!
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We Were the Ramchargers,
This review is from: We Were the Ramchargers: Inside Drag Racing's Legendary Team (Hardcover)
Great book and most importantly all the stories, race results, dates and times are correct. No self serving stories here, just the facts.
MIKE BUCKEL
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