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Hot New Titles Most Popular This Year WICKED FAST Racing Through YBrand New from Coastal 181 Life with Bentley Warren by Bones Bourcier THE PEOPLE’S CHAMP One of the most decorated short-track A Racing Life drivers ever, seven-time by Dave Darland with Bones Bourcier champion, four-time ISMA champ, two-time

The memoir of one of ’s most popular Little 500 winner, Indy and Silver Crown and talented racers, a champion in all three of USAC’s star—Bentley Warren is also a self-taught entrepreneur, merry national divisions—Silver Crown, Sprint Cars, and saloon-keeper, tricked-out Harley rider, and overall hell-raiser Midgets—and still winning! Soft cover, 192 pp., with a heart. Soft cover, 272 pp., B&W photos. S-1322: $29.95 32 pp. of B&W and color photos. S-1376: $24.95 DID YOU SEE THAT? A HISTORY OF Unforgettable Moments in IN NEW ENGLAND Vol. 1 Midwest Open-Wheel Racing by Joyce Standridge A Project of the North East Motor Sports Museum There’s never been a racing book like this. If it was in The drama, joy, and sometimes terror that New England, on the boards, the drag strips, or if it’s is open-wheel racing, captured by some of the best photogra - about Midgets, Sprints, Modifieds, or Late Models on phers in the country and illuminated by writer and open-wheel

expert Joyce Standridge. Features 465 B&W photos from the oval, it’s there. Hundreds/hundreds of photos and comprehensive coverage all contributed for Nort h East 1978 to the present at some two dozen Midwestern tracks, Motor Sports Museum. Hard cover, 304 pp., 400+ B&W photos. showcasing Midgets, Sprints and Silver Crown cars. Available December 1, 2014. S-1405: $34.95 Soft cover, 170 pp. S-1306: $27.95 As a matter of fact, I am BLACK NOON by Parnelli Jones with Bones Bourcier The Year They Stopped the Indy 500 Parnelli Jones’ journey from California

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Superb chronicle of one of the darkest and most im portant days is the stuff of American legend. in auto-racing history: the 1964 Indy 500 when and Parnelli tells the full story of his incredible Dave MacDonald were killed in fiery crashes that shook the racing life. Includes personal reminiscences by a racer, owner, motorsports world. Hard cover, 352 pp., B&W photos . or friend who was there. Hard cover, 272 pp., 175 B&W S-1391: $27.95 and color photos. S-1236: $39.95 ON TOP OF THE WORLD THE MODIFIED The Life and Times of a Racing Pioneer ERA 1959-1973 by Larry Moore with Dave Argabright by Fr. Dale Grubba

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