Trans-Am: The Pony Car Wars 1966-1972

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Summary: A Detailed Account of a Classic Era
Review: David Friedman has done an excellent job of telling the story of the Trans-American Racing Series with this well-written, beautifully illustrated, all around interesting book. This book follows the pattern of Friedman's others, such as his on the Shelby Cobra, which tells the story behind the car, behind the race. It gives you the perspective of not only witnessing the era, but gives details of the inner workings of the Automotive industry at the time. If you like the Pony Car era, and like racing, you'll be interested to read this book.

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Summary: Great pictures, needs more technical detail
Review: Great pics of a great era in racing and good historical recaps of each season. But the meat that this book is missing is the technical details of the cars and how they were prepared. Also would have been nice to have more behind the scenes details of the teams and factory backing. While everyone is familiar with big names of the era, it would have been interesting to get a look at some of the independant cars that were being campaigned and what life was like for those guys. All in all though, a great book if you are a muscle car fan of the 60's.

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Summary: Terrific!
Review: This book is essential reading for fans of the real Trans-Am. Lots of great pics, lots of quotes from the drivers, mechanics, and team owners.

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Summary: Terrific!
Review: This book is essential reading for fans of the real Trans-Am. Lots of great pics, lots of quotes from the drivers, mechanics, and team owners.

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Summary: Nice Pictures, Not Enough Information, Worth Your Time
Review: This book would more appropriately be titled as a photo history.
The pictures are great! The author's text and captions almost assume you already know the history of the series and are often repetitive. The word "dominated" is used three times in the second paragraph of the book and after about the forth time one does get tired of being reminded that there was no drivers championship before 1972.
That said, this would be a three star book. What takes it up a notch are the quotes from the drivers and other series participants that are included on most pages. I attended Trans Am races in 1970 & 1971 and was an avid fan of the series. The quotes add a nice perspective and bring new material to light.

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Summary: too many photos-not technical enough
Review: This is a great book if all you want to do is look at the body type and nothing underneath the sheetmetal. So many manufacturers created high performance parts specifically for t/a racing that this book never shows you. A picture of a complete or even dissassembled tunnel port boss 302, t/a 340, amc 390, or Datsun OR ANY ENGINE would be nice. Also, other sources have these cars as being very colorful with lots of unique graphics that black and white photos do no justice to. Finally, many of the pictures seem to repeat themselves. The same car rounding the same type of turns ect...