The Anatomy & Development of the Stock Car
Author: John Craft
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780879388003
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Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780879388003
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Steve Nickless
Publisher: Motorbooks
Published: 1992-12
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780879388072
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ian Bamsey
Publisher: Steve Parish
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780854298297
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Bill Coulter
Publisher: Kalmbach Publishing, Co.
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 118
ISBN-13: 9780890242858
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Shows how to detail wheels and engines, and other skills to make your own stock cars the most realistic models ever.
Author: Mark D. Howell
Publisher: Popular Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780879727406
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Howell (cultural history, Michigan State U.) describes the features, activity, and impact of the annual 32-race, 10-month stock car competition. He focuses on the role of corporate sponsors in transforming the sport from an amateur pastime to a big-money media event. Paper edition (unseen), $21.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Linda K. Fuller
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9781433105081
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Sexual Sports Rhetoric: Historical and Media Contexts of Violence deals with controversies surrounding the notion of sport violence added to the equation of gender and language. Topics discussed range from hooliganism, spousal abuse, and racial and/or gender orientation issues to literary, televised, filmic and photographic (pornographic?) images of sports violence. The sports represented include ice hockey, stock car racing, football, body building, baseball, boxing, rugby, wrestling, and pool.
Author: Bill Fleischman
Publisher: Visible Ink Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 616
ISBN-13: 9781578590339
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF THE THE LAST OF THE GLADIATOR SPORTS.
Author: Richard John Neil
Publisher: Veloce Publishing Ltd
Published: 2008-08-15
Total Pages: 98
ISBN-13: 1845841670
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Short oval racing (Hot Rod and Stock Car racing) is a very popular motorsport. This is the charting the progress of short oval racing in the 1980s. 90+ never before published photos and championship listings complement the evocative text.
Author: Jeff Daniels
Publisher:
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9781853610202
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: David Anderson Charters
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2007-01-01
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 0802093949
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the forty-year period between 1951 and 1991, Canadian sports car competition underwent a massive change, transforming itself from an amateur recreational pastime to a commercialized profession and from an individual sport to a spectacle for mass consumption. The Chequered Past is the story of the struggle over power and purpose within the Canadian auto sport that led to this transformation. The first comprehensive history of sports car racing and rallying in Canada, The Chequered Past traces the efforts of the national governing body - the Canadian Auto Sport Clubs (CASC) - to bring its sports car competition up to a 'world class' level, and to manage the consequences of those efforts in the second half of the twentieth century. David Charters traces the social origins of the sport and the major trends that shaped it: professionalism, technological change, rising costs, and the influence of commercial sponsors. Charters argues that while early enthusiasts set the sport on a course toward professionalism that would eventually produce world-class Canadian events and racers, that course would also ultimately change the purpose of the sport: from personal recreation to mass entertainment. As technological innovations drove up the costs of competing at the top ranks, racers were forced to rely on sponsors, who commercialized and ultimately gained control of the sport. The end result, Charters argues, was the marginalization of the amateur competitor and of the CASC itself. Based on extensive research into the CASC's records and dozens of interviews with former competitors and officials, The Chequered Past opens a window into the rich but virtually unknown history of the auto sport, and claims for it a place in Canadian sports history.