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Author Pierce, Daniel S.

Title Real NASCAR : white lightning, red clay, and Big Bill France / Daniel S. Pierce.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2010]
©2010

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 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  796.72 PIE    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  796.72 PIE    DUE 04-03-24
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  796.72 PIE    Check Shelf
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Description 348 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-333) and index.
Contents Introduction: In the beginning...there was Bristol -- The Piedmont hell of a fellow and the origins of stock car racing -- Home-towners going at it tooth and nail: pre-world war II Piedmont stock car racing -- Rough and rowdy: big Bill, the Atlanta bootleggers, and the bootlegger tracks -- A paper dream?: the creation and early years of NASCAR -- Darlington, Bamboo Shorts, Jocko Flocko, and the fabulous Hudson Hornet: NASCAR Grand National, 1950-1954 -- I would have been willing to bet...we would never have to sleep in the car again: feast and famine, NASCAR, 1955-1958 -- High stakes poker: NASCAR, 1959-1963 -- Give 'em all a shot of whiskey and drop the flag: NASCAR's danger years, 1964-1967 -- The dirt tracks are rapidly becoming a thing of the past: the end of the beginning, 1968-1972 -- Conclusion: Back to Bristol.
Subject Stock car racing -- History.
NASCAR (Association)
France, William H. (William Harlan), 1872-1967.
ISBN 9780807833841 cloth alkaline paper
0807833843 cloth alkaline paper
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