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Growing up NASCAR : racing's most outrageous promoter tells all /
- Title
- Growing up NASCAR : racing's most outrageous promoter tells all / Humpy Wheeler and Peter Golenbock.
- Author
- Wheeler, Humpy.
- Publication
- Minneapolis : MBI Pub. Co., 2010.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Golenbock, Peter, 1946-
- Description
- 300 p. : ill. (mostly col.), photographs; 24 cm.
- Summary
- From the earliest days of the sport, when Humpy often used his fists to keep order, to NASCAR's transition to a multi-billion-dollar business, Humpy's life has paralleled American stock car racing.
- Subject
- Contents
- We watched the race cars go by -- The Scotch-Irish and the segregated south -- Learning the ropes -- Moonshine and racing -- The Robinwood Speedway -- Slick -- Witness to disaster -- When the rubber meets the road -- Big Bill France -- Ralph and the Indian -- Bobby Allison -- Junior Johnson -- Driving for Junior -- Curtis and Bruton go bust -- Hired to run the Charlotte Motor Speedway -- Bruton and I -- Dirt poor Dale -- Dale and Richard Childress -- Rick Hendrick changes the game -- Days of thunder -- Alan Kulwicki's too short journey -- The all star race -- Robert Yates knows tragedy -- Bobby Allison's nightmare -- NASCAR and Bruton go national -- Joe Gibbs and Dale Jarrett -- Jack Roush and Mark Martin -- The death of Dale Earnhardt -- The corporatization of racing -- Good-bye -- Racing of the future.
- ISBN
- 9780760337752 (hb w/ jkt)
- 0760337756 (hb w/ jkt)
- LCCN
- 2009049814
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library