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Summary: 100 years of Ford, 30 Years of me reading about them.
Review: I remember the original printing of this book. I read it many times in my elementary school's library. I found the descriptions of the far-off places like Monza, LeMans, and Monaco to be exciting, but no more than the famous US tracks like Daytona, Charlotte, Riverside and Sebring.Leo Levine took me there as a child. I felt that I was bouncing across the Baja with Parnelli Jones in a Stroppe Bronco, testing at LeMans with Ken Miles, welding up a roll-cage with Holman-Moody, and mourning the tragic deaths of so many great drivers. This book started me on a life-long love affair with motorsports, racing, reading, and Ford products. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Flat Heads, Hot Rods, Muscle Cars and Le Mans!
Review: This book was a terrific detailed history of Ford Motor Company racing through 1967. For anybody who loves fast cars, Fords and lived through the debut of the Mustang, the Cobra, and the GT40 that won at Le Mans this is a terrific read. A friend who is a car buff recommended it and while it took a while to get through (640+ pages) it was worth the effort. It also makes you appreciate the advance in publishing that have taken place since 1968 when this book first appeared. The pictures are grainy and don't do justice to the drivers, the cars or the author's fine writing.
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Summary: Understanding the Cradle of Ford Racing
Review: This is a wonderful book, essential for any true racing enthusiast. The author weaves the various threads of racing development -- worldwide in scope -- form Dearborn to Oregon to Argentina to California to Europe. The only disapointment in this edition is the rather poor reproduction of the photographs...
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Summary: Essential reading and great value
Review: Wow. This is a fabulous story told by a skillful writer. The people and the technology support each other, and "Ford" as a theme takes the story through early racing, hot rodding, Indy, NASCAR, and Europe. The research that Levine put into the book shows, and he (or his editor) is skilled enough to know exactly when to step aside and let the source material tell the story. And what a value! 640 pages for $..., compared to <200 pages for a typical auto racing book.
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Summary: Essential reading and great value
Review: Wow. This is a fabulous story told by a skillful writer. The people and the technology support each other, and "Ford" as a theme takes the story through early racing, hot rodding, Indy, NASCAR, and Europe. The research that Levine put into the book shows, and he (or his editor) is skilled enough to know exactly when to step aside and let the source material tell the story. And what a value! 640 pages for $..., compared to <200 pages for a typical auto racing book.
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