This revised, expanded edition includes a lengthy new final chapter, an extensive index, 114 photos printed on 48 pages of premium gloss paper. Photographs come from over 23 sources and include work by: Louis Klemantaski, Dave Friedman, Bob Tronolone, Jim Sitz, Bernard Cahier, Geoffrey Goddard, Peter Coltrin, and Griffith Borgeson. William F. Nolan documents the extraordinary life and career of Phil Hill, from his days as a youngster driving his aunt’s Packard, to his six-year stint as a driver for Enzo Ferrari, with whom in 1961 Phil Hill became the first American to win the Grand Prix Driver’s Championship. The book describes in detail Hill’s early drives in MGs and Jaguars, in addition to his many private and factory Ferrari drives, and his later entries with ATS and Cooper GP cars. This expanded edition goes on to cover Hill’s races with Carroll Shelby’s Cobra team, Ford's GT40s, and Jim Hall’s Chaparrals, as well as Phil Hill’s life as a family man and his work as one of the foremost classic car restorers. An updated "Table of International Successes" and a seven page index complete this high quality hardcover book.

Phil Hill, Yankee Champion: Yankee Champion, First American to Win the Driving Championship of the World

Engineering & Transportation

NOLAN, William F.

Automotive

Brown Fox Books

Revised and expanded, this is the only book ever devoted to Barney Oldfield, the man who got his start at the turn of the century racing Ford’s 999 and winning the Manufacturers’ Challenge Cup. 
Barney was America’s most flamboyant race driver. He took part in countless race meets between 1902 and 1918. The machines he drove included the Winton Bullet, Peerless Green Dragon, the Blitzen Benz, and Harry Miller’s Golden Submarine. 
Commanding thousands of dollars for race appearances, Oldfield wore a diamond pinky ring and a sealskin coat. He raced his cars against planes and played chicken with trains, barnstormed the county fairs, brawled in saloons, and starred in films. He was the first man to go faster than a-mile-minute in a gas powered car. He set records at the dirt tracks and on the beach, raced the road courses and circled the banked board and brick tracks with the fastest of the era. 
This new edition has been fully redesigned and re-illustrated, featuring 114 illustrations. An extensive bibliography, appendices of race results, and a seven page index complete this definitive book on America’s turn-of-the-century motor sport legend.

Barney Oldfield: The Life and Times of America's Legendary Speed King

William F. Nolan

Sports & Outdoors

Bill Pollack, influential pioneer of the California sports car scene, first raced an MG at the 1950 Palm Springs event, but he is best known as the winning pilot of Tom Carsten’s famous red wheeled, Cadillac-powered, Allard J2. 
This autobiography by one of the most successful West Coast motorsports racers, covers auto racing from 1949 to 1958 and California history from 1933 to 2002. 
A foreword by Carroll Shelby and side-bar contributions by Phil Hill, John Fitch, William Edgar, Ruth Levy Raymond, Ginny Sims, and Mary Davis add additional perspectives to this vivid and often humorous picture of road racing in the fabulous fifties. 
This book features 87 photos on coated paper for a total of 107 B&amp;W illustrations, includes an appendix and index.

Red Wheels And White Sidewalls: Confessions Of An Allard Racer

Pollack, Bill

Biographies & Memoirs

The exploits of the BRE race team from 1970-72 were well chronicled in Sylvia Wilkinson’s now legendary book from the period, The Stainless Steel Carrot. Long out of print and still highly sought after, Sylvia finally succumbed to pleas from fans of that era to reprint the book. She has done that, and consistent with her pursuit of excellence, Sylvia has updated the book to include: An additional 46 page chapter that catches up with the BRE team members today, finding out what they think now of the BRE then, and knowing what they know now, asking how they feel today about the era and how motorsports has changed. Numerous pages of additional photos, with quality captions, documenting John Morton’s career after BRE The book, of course, contains the original text and photos plus the additions above, including more than 150 photos! (a nice mix of both color and black&amp;white). The Stainless Steel Carrot shares, without prejudice, the trials and tribulations of the era’s top race team r

The Stainless Steel Carrot: An Auto Racing Odyssey—Revisited

Sylvia Wilkinson

Miscellaneous

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