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Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Limited edition of 350 copies, signed by the artist on a label tipped in to the back cover, and numbered on the colophon page. Hardcover. Silk cloth-covered boards; with photographically illustrated dust jacket and silk cloth-covered slipcase with tipped-in duotone plate. 60 pp., with 26 duotone plates. 15 x 12 inches. New in publisher's packaging. From the publisher: "In 1964, a young Steve Banks bought one of the most coveted âMuscle Cars' on the marketâ"a Pontiac GTO with a four-speed stick and a Hurst shifter, Tri-Power, and three Rochester 2G carburetors. He then drove Route 66 from Chicago to Los Angeles to begin his new advertising agency job. Gassing up one day at Nobo's Shell station at Beverly and Larchmont, Banks learned that Nobo had previously been head mechanic at the Courtesy Chevrolet dealership, and that his station had become a center for building and tuning street racers. On and off over the next few months, Banks would leave his car at the garage while Nobo fine-tuned the carburetors, replaced the stock tires, torsion, and sway bars, and added Koni shocks and a Sun tachometer. Next, he taught Banks how to âspeed shift'â"while making late night runs up and down Larchmont Boulevard. One day, Nobo mentioned he was going to a drag race that Saturday, and that Banks was welcome to come along. Witnessing his first drag race, Steve Banks was immediately hooked. He returned the following Saturday, and the next, and again the next; but this time with with his cameras. Over the course of two years, Banks photographed guys preparing runs, the thundering nitro-burning dragsters launching down the strip at two hundred-plus miles per hour, and everything else that moved. Today, fifty years later, the sport of drag racing is a big bucks, corporate-sponsored television broadcast business with the NHRA sporting over two hundred different drag racing classes. However, in a nod to the sport's modest beginnings, almost every weekend from coast-to-coast one can find ânostalgia racing' events preserving the dragster culture of the 1960s captured here in NITRO, Drag Racing In The Sixties: 1964â"1966." Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine condition. First edition, limited. Artist Print of an edition of 350, signed on small plate pasted to back cover as issued. NZ Library. Large Folio. Unpaginated. Original silver paper-covered boards with black lettering on cover and spine, in original photo-illustrated dustjacket, black lettering on spine; housed in matching silver slipcase with b/w print laid to cover and black lettering on spine. Illustrated with twenty-four double-page high quality reproductions of b/w photographs illuminating the culture of drag racing. "Drag racing as we know it was born in Southern California. In the late 1930s, local automotive enthusiasts known as 'hot rodders' began customizing their cars and informally meeting up at local drive-in stands to show off their souped up creations. These earliest dragsters were stripped-down-little more than chassis and an engine. By the late 'thirties, Ernie McAfee was breaking speed records driving his torpedo-shaped modified Ford out on the Muroc dry lake beds, fifty miles north of Los Angeles. In 1951 Wally Parks, co-founder and first editor of Hot Rod magazine-who was also instrumental in founding Motor Trend magazine-began an effort to get hot rodders off the streets and into a controlled environment. In 1971 the legendary "Big Daddy" Don Garlits introduced his revolutionary rear engine Top Fuel dragster Swamp Rat XIV, Big business soon followed. However, in a nod to the sport's modest beginnings, almost every weekend from coast-to-coast you will find 'nostalgia racing' events preserving the dragster culture of the 1960s captured here in NITRO, Drag Racing in the Sixties: 1964-1966." (Banks). Minor wear along edges of slipcase.