Real NASCAR
Subtitle: white lightning, red clay, and Big Bill France
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780807833841
Table of contents: title: Introduction : In the beginning there was Bristol; title: The Piedmont hell of a fellow and the origins of stock car racing; title: Home-towners going at it tooth and nail : pre-World War II Piedmont stock car racing; title: Rough and rowdy : Big Bill, the Atlanta Bootleggers, and the Bootlegger tracks; title: A paper dream? The creation and early years of NASCAR; title: Darlington, Bamooda shorts, Jocko Flocko, and the fabulous Hudson Hornet : NASCAR Grand National, 1950-1954; title: I would have been willing to bet we would never have to sleep in the car again : feast and famine, NASCAR, 1955-1958; title: High stakes poker : NASCAR, 1959-1963; title: Give 'em all a shot of whiskey and drop the flag : NASCAR's danger years, 1964-1967; title: The dirt tracks are rapidly becoming a thing of the past : the end of the beginning, 1968-1972; title: Conclusion : Back to Bristol