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Weekend Heroes is about sports car drivers, spectators and enthusiasts that made the scene in California in the 1950s. This scene saw life in the late ‘40s when a bunch of guys and gals wanted to go racing. The group they created then is strong and active to this day with a name that still resonates – the California Sports Car Club, better known as Cal Club. But not only Cal Club races are covered in Weekend Heroes – also SCCA sanctioned events like March Field, Pebble Beach and Bakersfield are present as are side-show gatherings like the English Trials at Owl’s Roost and Rudy Cleye’s Blarney Castle festival. Experience the evolution of cars and venues from the earliest event covered (Palm Springs March 1952) to the very first meeting at Riverside in September 1957. See new drivers like Ricardo Rodriguez arrive on the scene or older backyard Specials being modified to stand competition from the popular and powerful foreign machinery.
This fascinating book is not merely nostalgia; those early years truly were magical – filled with special cars and special people who have genuinely become our Weekend Heroes.
Weekend Heroes captures the events from 1952 to 1957 in 700 pages, filled with 370 fabulous and vivid color photos and 189 fascinating black&whites. About 98% of these rare and desirable photographs - the work of amateur photographers like Joe Smith, Bob Lytle, Al Long and Bob Gurr - have not been previously published. The images are accompanied by the race reports and stories published in enthusiast journals of the day.
Print run is strictly limited to 1000 numbered copies and this book represents a serious addition to any motoring enthusiast’s library.
The arrival of Weekend Heroes this afternoon in California, I want you to know, has totally ruined the rest of my writing day and will probably be the cause of my missing deadlines on more than several articles due to your book's sheer volume and utter magnificence plus my compulsion to devour every page, photograph and word without stopping. You have produced something of huge value to the sport and certainly to anyone who lived during that period and was in any number of ways a part of that sports car racing scene, in and out of the driver's seat, paddock prowler or spectator, press hound or wrench. It's a shame we cannot roust those dead who were alive then to now enjoy your book as much as the many survivors undoubtedly will. And for the newcomers, for those born after that year covered in your book's first chapter, this will be a priceless look into the shadows of life before theirs. Thank you for this great gift, and for asking me to contribute to its making. Among many others no longer here to voice their praise for what you have done, I know that my father John Edgar would cherish this unique work, as I most certainly shall.
Will Edgar
370 color photographs
189 black&white photographs
format 302 x 252 mm
weight about 4.6 kg
hard cover with protective slipcase
five color litho
limited and numbered edition (0001 – 1000)
text in English
introduction by Bill Pollack
ISBN 9789080119734
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price 199 € +
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P&P 22€
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 100 € USA only |
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