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The 200 Mile Race The 200 Mile Race was first organised at Brooklands by the Junior Car Club in 1921. It was the first long distance event ever to be organised in this country.It was run regularly from 1921 to 1928 and was entered by many famous racing drivers, both British and Continental. The race was revived and run at Donington Park in 1936 and 1937. In 1938 it returned to Brooklandss and used a circuit incorporating parts of the Campbell Road Course..The book covers the races to 1938 and at the back lists the first three in each class year by year. It has 155pp followed by maps of the circiut and results. There are Black and White photographs.
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403.1 MPH John Cobb
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Ab & Marvin Jenkins Ab Jenkins drove for Studebaker in speedway and road races during the late 1920's and early 30's, then took a Pierce-Arrow roadster to Bonneville, Utah, for the first-ever timed run on the Salt Flats. His 112 mile an hour record for 24 hours made him world-famous. In 1935 the Duesenberg Company converted one of its supercharged luxury cars into "The Mormon Meteor" for him to race at Bonneville against such men as John Cobb, Malcolm Campbell and Captain George Eyston. Repowered in 1936 with a 1,750 cubic inch Curtiss fighter plane engine, the car was re-named "Meteor II" and returned to the Salt Flats to set more records. In 1937, with sponsorship from major oil, tire and spark plug companies, he built Meteor III, a huge aero-engine monster that carried him to more records on the salt. Ab's son, Marvin, was a racer in his own right, driving one of the Studebakers more than 90 miles an hour in 1931. After the war Marvin was tapped to drive the famed Novi Indianapolis car at Bonneville, where he set Class D records in 1947. In Ab's final drive, he and Marvin teamed up in 1956 to drive a Pontiac to a 24 hour stock car record of more than 118 miles an hour.
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The Birth of Hot Rodding The Birth of Hot Rodding was selected by the American Auto Racing Writers & Broadcasters Assoc. as its choice for the best book on auto racing for 2003. Subtitled: The Story of the Dry Lakes Era."The nearest thing to it, as I thought then, would be like landing on the moon!"--Wally Parks, describing the dry lakesIn the garages, shops, and fertile minds of 1920s car buffs in search of more power and speed, the hot rodding movement was born. A hot bed of this early quest for speed sprang up when the first Southern California hot rod builder hauled his creation over the ridge of mountains and opened up the throttle on the Mojave Desert's dry lakes.The dry lake beds of the desert provided the common denominator, the measuring stick against which all hot rod builders would judge their modified machines. These dry lakes were in secluded spots where this creative breed of car folk could come together to share ideas, learn from the masters, and compete to be the fastest for the weekend.These wide open havens for speed and freedom nestled within the mountains north of Los Angeles provided nature's perfect racing surface: perfectly flat, free of obstacles, with miles to go in any direction. Places like Muroc, El Mirage, and Harper were transformed from ancient prehistoric no-man's-land to the weekend testing grounds of speed. Author Robert Genat brings together stories of the golden age of hot rodding from the men and women who pioneered the sport in The Birth of Hot Rodding. Profiles of the most influential racers, cars, and events accompany original photography to create a definitive history of hot rod racing on the dry lakes. With a foreword by Wally Parks, NHRA founder and chairman of the NHRA Motorsports Museum, The Birth of Hot Rodding encapsulates a unique piece of racing history.
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Bluebird CN7 This book records the development, construction and operation of the last wheel-driven land speed record breaking car that the UK produced, and shows how the tragic demise of Donald Campbell prevented it from reaching its full potential. It is also the personal story of one of the design team, how he became involved, and his incredible experiences in doing so. With many previously unpublished photographs, drawings, and illustrations, this is a unique account of a legendary feat of engineering.
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Bluebird & The Dead Lake
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Bluebirds - The story of the Campbell Dynasty In the 1930s Sir Malcolm Campbell broke all land and water speed records. In the 1950s and 1960s his son Donald did the same, before his death in his boat Bluebird on Coniston Water in 1967. When her father died, Gina took up the legacy, and here she presents a remarkable family portrait. Abandoned to a residential home after her parents divorced, Gina was later picked up by her father and accompanied him on his adventures. She heard the tales of her grandfather's similar exploits in the days when 180 mph was considered almost supersonic. She describes both men as endearing but rather irresponsible obsessives whose cars and boats were always called Bluebird. Gina, who in 1984 broke the women's world water speed record before nearly dying in a re-run of the accident that killed her father in a boat, also called her boat Bluebird.
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The Bluebird Years
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Bonneville - A Century of Speed
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Bonneville
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Donald Campbell C.B.E.
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Donald Campbell An Informal Biography
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Donald Campbell The Man Behind the Mask
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The Fastest Men in the World - On Wheels
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Fastest On Earth
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The Fastest Men On Earth
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The fastest men on ground
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The Fastest Motorcycles On Earth
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The Fast Set
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First and Fastest
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Flat Out California Dry Lake Trials 1930-1950. The definitive history of the sport during the Golden Age. Covers the beginnings, Muroc Racing Association, SCTA, the "bootleg races" during WW II and the postwar period. 300 photos of almost every notable dry lake car.
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Jet Blast and the Hand of Fate
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| The John Cobb Story S.C.H.Davis The John Cobb Story. G.T.Foulis |
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Land Speed Racing
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Land speed record
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The Landspeed Record -
1947-1997
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The Land Speed record -
1898-1919
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The Land Speed Record -
1920-1929
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The Land Speed Record -
1930-1939
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The Land Speed Record - 1940-1962 This portfolio of reports tells how the Land Speed Record was raised from 369 mph to 394 mph by John Cobb in the Railton Mobil Special. Also featured are record attempts by Donald Campbell in Bluebird, Mickey Thompson in Challenger I, Craig Breedlove in 'Spirit of America', and much more. Expert comments by David Tremayne.
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The Land Speed Record -
1963-1999
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Land speed record breaker
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Land speed record breakers
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Land Speed Record
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Land Speed Record
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Land Speed Record
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Leap Into Legend
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Leo Villa's Bluebird Album This is the definitive photographic record of Donald Campbell’s legendary Bluebirds, captured through the twin lenses of Leo Villa’s Stereo Realist Camera, and other images of the time. An amazing body of photojournalism in color, 3D and black & white, that captures the life-and-death drama that was played out against the barren landscapes of salt beds and the magnificent backdrop of Coniston Water. It also puts the story in its historic background, showing the fashions and styles of the day. In 1964 Donald Campbell and his team went to Australia with the intention of breaking the land and water speed records in the same year. The Double. An adventure unsurpassed in record breaking history, complicated by difficulty and obstacles. A constant fight against the elements and the technicalities of high speed vehicles. For 12 years Donald Campbell dominated the record breaking scene on both sides of the Atlantic and throughout this period he was aided and advised by Leo Villa, his friend and chef d’équipe, who had known him since childhood. Leo played a unique part in record breaking history and helped break 10 land speed records and 11 water speed records with Donald and Malcolm Campbell and their legendary Bluebirds.
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Sir Henry Seagrave
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Legend of Speed: The Burt Munro Story Munro was the ultimate eccentric; a real 'number-eight-wire' inventor. He took an original Indian motorbike and modified it in his shed so that it became capable of extreme speeds. With this bike he broke several international speed records at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah in 1967 – a number of which stand to this day. This book, an abridged edition of the bestselling One Good Run – the Legend of Burt Munro, is for young readers aged 10-14 yrs. It cuts to the core of Munro's story, from small town Invercargill to heroic deeds in the USA. The emphasis is on thrilling narrative in this 'little guy beats the odds' story.
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Kings Speed
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Malcolm and Donald Campbell
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My return with death
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Sir Malcolm Campbell's Book of Famous Motorists
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My Speed King
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One Good Run - The Legend of Burt Munro Burt Munro was a unique character. His quest for speed led him to ride his much modified Indian motorcycle at over 200 miles per hour, but his fastest official speed was a "mere" 191. Burt was more than a speed freak, however, he was an amazing character and his story is both entertaining and inspiring. The story inspired the movie, "The World`s Fastest Indian" starring Sir Anthony Hopkins. It is a great book to complement the movie and fill in the gaps in the story.
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Project Thrust
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Project Thrust - World Speed Record Challenge
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Book of the Racing Campbells
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The Romantic Story of Motor Racing
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Skimming the Surface
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Speed on Salt - History of Bonneville Salt Flats
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Speed - The Book of Racing and Records
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Speed The Authentic life of Sir Malcolm Campbell
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They Call it Courage
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Thrust
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| Thrust 2 The Land Speed Record Story |
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| Thrust SSC Supersonic Dream | |
Thrust Through The Sound Barrier
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Thunder Ahead
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The Triple Crown
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Unlimited speed
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When the Hot Rods Ran Muroc Dry Lake, now known as NASA's Edwards Air Force Base, was the site of hot-roddings first major lakes event. In 1938 Ernie McAfee's record-breaking four-cylinder Ford with a Winfield cylinder head ran 136.33 miles an hour. The body was torpedo shaped, there was no suspension and exhaust headers and pipes were enclosed within the body. By the end of 1939 only 29 cars had passed the 100 mile a hour mark but by 1948 the average speed was more than 130 miles an hour.
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Worlds Fastest Diesel
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Worlds Land Speed Record
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