Hot Rods Remember the cool hot rod library books?

Not the Felson books, but the hard cover pictoral books of late 60's early 70's drag racing, dirt bikes, hot rods..etc. I spent a lot of time looking at those in 6th,7th,8th grade.

Anybody remember the ***les, and can you post any pics?

Thx

 

I don't have pictures to post, but I do remember the ones you are talking about. Even better, even though our school library was brand new in the early seventies, we had a whole bunch of the books Tex Smith published in the early sixties. One was called "How to build a hot rod", and I think I had it on just about permanent loan all through grade school. I don't think I have ever seen any of those ***les out side of school libraries now that I think of it.

 

Funny, after I just wrote that, I just remembered I was thinking about an image in one of those books the other night. I think it was in the one on dirt bikes, and there was a picture of a young kid and a mini bike, with two cops and a cop car behind the three of them. If you look at the picture closely, the kid has a fairly determined look on his face, and his hand on the pull start for the mini. Kinda like thinking "this might just get me away from these guys"! That might have been the same one that a couple of pages on the dog that rode scrambles with his owner on a Husqvarna too...

 

HOT ROD and AMT had at least one Model book. I may have forgot about it and it theoretically may still be in my bookcase..................

 

My school library had this cool little hardcover about Ed Roth, pics of the Mysterion, and a '55 that he had spring to mind...

 

Remember the VW book--the last page had a bug with hydraulics.

 

No ***les. But it was a walking feild trip to the library in about the 3rd or 4th grage that got me into cars. And what was the first thing I seen ? Tommy Ivo's Show Boat. That would be around 72'.

 

Somone's dog loved this one, bought it last week for 50 cents. Hot Rod Ideas by Griffith Borgeson and Wayne Thoms, Arco Publishing Co, NY, NY. copyright 1961. Great quality book, clear photos with features on all types of cars. Features on top builders of the day, Roth, Thompson, Fuller, Summer brothers, Mark Dees, Immerso

 

I remember checking out a hard cover book from my Jr. High library called "King of the Dragsters" written by the swamp rat daddy himself, Don Garlits. I think it was first published in '67....

 

I did a book report on King of the Dragsters.

 

i have that book,took it from my school when i was in 6th grade,,i will dig it up,,

 

I've got about 8 of that series.
Dune Biggies
Go Carts
Surfing
Drag Racing
Dirt Bikes
Slot Cars
Dogs
Bicycles
Custom Cars(with Mr Bombas Merc on the cover)

I'll post some pic's when I get home....

 

Cool! I would love to see a photo of the cover, its been YEARS.

 

car customizing,big daddy roth,mickey thompson ,bill neumann,tom macpherson,,by gp putnams sons,,1965

 

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wow... I remember the dirtbike book with the kid on the cover. Prorbably the most coveted book in the gradeschool library.

 

This is some of what I recall...Especially the slot cars, dirt bikes, drag stuff. I'd like to search out a few of these books and ***les.

 

Engel, "The Complete Book of Fuel and Gas Dragsters" 1968

Picked it up at a library book sale...

 

At my school we had a copy of "building and racing the Hot Rod", a paperback novel sized book. I read it about 600 times, then I heard that they were getting rid of the "old" books (this was in the late 60's). So I had 2 options - watch it get sold to a book dealer - or swipe it. I chose number 2, and I still have it.

 

I have a couple, The complete book of karting by Tex Smith, Here is your hobby slot car racing, a few others I cant remember the names of. One is about show rods of the sixties, a couple about drag racing , midget racing, ect.

 

I loved that book in 7th grade. It had a bunch of cool FED stuff & a picture of the original "little red wagon" doing it's thing.

 

got that,great book,it left a highschool libary with me by mistake in about 72.........cant go wrong with the old stuff I gotta have 50 plus of those kinda books

 

I liked the Black Tiger series by Patrick O'Connor. Which were fictional accounts of race car driver Woody Hartford.
Black Tiger, the (1956)
Mexican Road Race (1957)
Black Tiger at Le Mans (1958)
Black Tiger at Bonneville (1960)
Black Tiger at Indianapolis (1962)
Car Called Camellia, a (1970)

My favorite was the Mexican Road Race.

 

Oh ****, tons of memories! prost34, that Car customizing book is one of the ones I was trying to remember last night as I posted. I think that's the one with the kid that customized his mom's '56 Olds with his moms help! I remember she was referred to as "Lady legal owner", a term I now use for my girlfriends small fleet of interesting vehicles... And the "here is your Hobby" series - they had them on go karts and slot cars, that I remember! Tex Smith's Go Kart book, had that one all grade school too! Damn, I need to watch used book sales a bit closer. No wonder I ****ed so badly at school - they had all my subversive **** right in the library! I mean, why study English when I could already speak and somewhat spell, when I could be reading about cool stuff - right?

 

I remember one from my elementary school (mid '80's) library called, I think "Lowrider Mania". It was full of cool stuff (at least I thought so at the time). I guess I'd have to flip through it again to give an accurate ***essment now.

 

Are these the books?


I remember them at school in New Zealand when I was a 10 year old in 1974. They were 1st published in the USA in 1967. I can tell you, as a kid in NZ, these books had a huge impact on my desire to be a Hot Rodder.

As luck would have it I scored the pictured Drag Racing book and still have it today. I was a library monitor in 1976 and the librarian discarded the book as some delightful child had scratched the plastic cover with their finger nails - you can see the marks in the images... But the actual hard cover is still perfect if I peel the plastic cover off - which I won't...

Thanks for the memories!

Noddy

 

I remember taking that one out several times !
Thanks !

 

Yup, thats it! Man, it has been a LOOOONG time since I saw that book! Thanks for the memories.

 

I think I had the "Drag Racing Funny Cars" book. Had Clare Sanders in the Limefire cuda wheels up on the cover?

 

It'd be nice if McNaughton and Baker/Taylor sold those types of ***les again.