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Factory Lightweights: Detroit's Drag Racing Specials of the '60s
Charles Morris
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- Publisher: CarTech
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- Avg. Customer Rating: 5 Stars
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Product Description:
Factory Lightweights: Detroit's Drag Racing Specials of the '60s chronicles these rare cars that still inspire admirers and imitators today. Among racers it's never been a secret that a lighter car is a faster car--particularly in drag racing. When Detroit's automakers got involved in organized drag racing, they paid heed to this principle, issuing a series of rare race-only cars that became legends in their own time. Unbound by warranty and durability concerns, these wild cars featured lightweight additions such as fiberglass and aluminum body parts, Plexiglas windows and many more weight-saving tricks. Under their hoods were wicked, raucous engines that only felt at home on the quarter mile. Cars like the Ford Fairlane 427 Thunderbolt, Pontiac's Super Duty Catalina, Dyno Don Nicholson's Chevy II Wagon, and a whole assortment of Hemi-powered Mopars sit at the top of the heap when you're talking about the fastest American musclecars produced during the 1960s. Few of these cars were produced and very few still survive today.
- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: CarTech
- ISBN: 1932494448
- Dimensions: 9.1 x 9 x 0.4 inches
- Weight: 1.3 pounds
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Customer Reviews
- Just awesome!
- Avg. Customer Rating: 5 Stars
- Great book! If you are a musclecar fan, drag racing fan, modeler, or just a car junkie, you need this book! Great stories and detailed info, and tons of great pics, especially of the lesser-known or seen cars. Feeds the visual and the technical guys cravings.
- Factory Lightweights
- Avg. Customer Rating: 5 Stars
- Excellent reference for the factory lightweight drag cars. Contains several historical pictures that are awesome to review.
- Factory lightweights
- Avg. Customer Rating: 5 Stars
- Just when I thought I knew most of the answers about those wonderful days when drag racing really was about buying on monday what we saw racing on the weekend, here comes a book that brings back all of those cars I loved to watch, that later inspired me to race both my '69 Mustang as well as my '71 Ranchero. To top it all off there was info new to me too. Great book.
- Thoroughly researched book
- Avg. Customer Rating: 4 Stars
- I have several of Charlie Morris' books and find that this one every bit as good as the others. Charlie does his homework when researching the subject matter. I recommend all of his books including "Total Performers, Ford Drag Racing in the Sixties".
R.L. "Pete" Garramone - The best references to the "Golden Age" of Drag racing.
- Avg. Customer Rating: 5 Stars
- The "characters" almost seem to be talking right to you from the pages of
this book. It's as if Mr. Morris was right there at each and every track,
office, factory, etc. He must have been a fly on the walls at some of the
meetings. Also, the humor mixed with facts kept me from putting this book
down very often. I can't wait for the next book from Mr. Morris.
