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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pierce, Daniel S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stock car racing--History.

Stock car racing.

NASCAR (Association).

France, Bill, 1909-1992.

France, Bill.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (361 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

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. Pierce not only confirms the popular notion of NASCAR's origins in bootlegging, but also establishes beyond a doubt the close ties between organized rac

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

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

ISBN:

979-88-908739-7-2

979-88-9313-131-4

1-4696-0417-5

0-8078-9572-5

OCLC:

676699113