
Merchants of Speed
The Men Who Built America's Performance Industry
Paul D. Smith(Author)
Motorbooks (Publisher)
Published on 1. October 2009
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-7603-3567-3 (ISBN)
Description
Hot rodding has always been about taking something that Detroit built and making it leaner and faster. At the epicenter of the movement was a cast of driven men who designed and manufactured the parts that made it all possible. This book takes an appreciative look back at the early hot rodders who worked out of their garages, basements, and backyards, and the speed equipment they developed. In this mammoth volume, Paul Smith examines the stories behind two dozen speed equipment manufacturers and the go-fast goodies they designed, developed, and sold. Drawing upon hundreds of hours of interviews conducted with these founding fathers of hot rodding, Smith details the work of industry icons such as Iskenderian, Edelbrock, Evans, Hilborn, Navarro, Offenhauser, Sharp, Weiand, Ansen, and Kong. Illustrated with more than 200 period photos and filled with firsthand accounts of the birth of hot roddingand the automotive aftermarket industrythis book is a truly fitting celebration of the names that became synonymous with speed.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 277 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7603-3567-3 (9780760335673)
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A longtime hot rod and drag racing enthusiast, Paul D. Smith split his time between Southern California and his native Canada while writing and researching this, his first book. Today he resides in Orillia, Ontario.A longtime hot rod and drag racing enthusiast, Paul D. Smith split his time between Southern California and his native Canada while writing and researching this, his first book. Today, he resides in Orillia, Ontario.