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Thread: Recommended Motorsport books
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9th April 2011, 04:38 #11
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Originally Posted by Don Capps
I think he captured the essence of how the moonshine runners evolved into racers....and how stock car racing evolved into something professional. No lies, and the man did a credible job of adding color to the mix."Water for my horses, beer for my men and mud for my turtle".
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10th April 2011, 05:08 #12
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_...urne&x=14&y=16
Possum Bourne's biography Bourne to Rally. One of the few farm boy to works team rally drivers. 2 NZ titles, 7 Australian Rally titles and at least 2 Asia Pacific titles. Team mate to Sainz, McRae and Burns. Cars -early Cortina to WRC Impreza hill climb special.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rat-Paul-Rad...2408576&sr=1-1
Paul Radisich - motocross bikes to BTCC to v8 Australian Touring cars
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10th April 2011, 19:31 #13
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Originally Posted by Mark in Oshawa
The issue is not that there were or were not those involved in the illegal liquor trade involved in stock car racing, particularly in the late Thirties and into the Forties and Fifties in the Southeast, rather the extent and their role in its origins. It is not difficult to suggest that the role of the moonshiners in the origins of stock car racing is very minimal to non-existent, mostly the latter; and, the same can be said for the idea that the races were primarily composed of moonshiners using cars used in the business of transporting illegal liquor, which is largely legend and mythology which was invented, nurtured, and sustained by non-historians.
While Thompson continues to peddle the baloney regarding moonshiners and stock car racing, there are those who are beginning to look more carefully at all this manufactured nonsense and pointing out that much of what has long been accepted as "fact" is often nothing of the kind. As far back as the Seventies there were academics questioning and providing grave doubts regarding the stock car creation mythology.
One does not necessarily have to lie outright to tell a story is not necessarily true. This is the case with Thompson's book.
Feel free to believe what you wish regarding the origins of stock car racing and NASCAR, even if it is probably dead wrong.Popular memory is not history.... -- Gordon Wood
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10th April 2011, 21:58 #14
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Don, I would be genuinely interested to know what some of your recommendations are.
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27th June 2011, 16:41 #15
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Originally Posted by Easy DrifterKyle Busch #18 M&M's Toyota Camry
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How do people watch that and say there's too many/no need for tarmac rallies? Crazy. Is it sped up footage?
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