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Real NASCAR : white lightning, red clay, and Big Bill France / Daniel S. Pierce.

Summary:

In this history of the stock car racing circuit known as NASCAR, Daniel Pierce offers a revealing new look at the sport from its postwar beginnings on Daytona Beach and Piedmont dirt tracks through the early 1970s when the sport spread beyond its southern roots and gained national recognition. Following NASCAR founder Big Bill France from his start as a mechanic, Real NASCAR details the sport's genesis as it has never been shown before.

Record details

ISBN: 9780807833841
ISBN: 0807833843
Physical Description: 348 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2010]
Copyright: ©2010

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-333) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

In the beginning-- there was Bristol -- The Piedmont hell of a fellow and the origins of stock car racing -- Home-towners going at it tooth and nail : pre-World War II Piedmont stock car racing -- Rough and rowdy : Big Bill, the Atlanta Bootleggers, and the Bootlegger tracks -- A paper dream? : the creation and early years of NASCAR -- Darlington, Bamooda shorts, Jocko Flocko, and the fabulous Hudson Hornet : NASCAR Grand National, 1950-1954 -- I would have been willing to bet-- we would never have to sleep in the car again : feast and famine, NASCAR, 1955-1958 -- High stakes poker : NASCAR, 1959-1963 -- Give 'em all a shot of whiskey and drop the flag : NASCAR's danger years, 1964-1967 -- The dirt tracks are rapidly becoming a thing of the past : the end of the beginning, 1968-1972 -- Back to Bristol.