Stock Cars Before Nascar: True Accounts Of What Car Racing Was Like In The Formative Years

A narrative about automobile racing infancy. The early racers like Henry Ford, Vanderbilt, and Barney Oldfield created a path that through the years was a model for racing excellence. The rough and tumble years of the 30's and 40's led the way to the great sport we have today. Stock Car racing that had few if any regulations preceded NASCAR that brought sanity and organization. The formation of this giant of today's automobile racing was just was needed to turn chaos into respectability. In the beginning of NASCAR, the southern states the focus. Today NASCAR is nationwide with dozens of super speedways and thousands of fans. "STOCK CARS BEFORE NASCAR" explores racing from the 1900's to the 1970's. Read about stock car racing, and discover race tracks and drivers and race cars, in all the southeastern stated plus Ohio and Pennsylvania.

• | Author: Buddy Mewbourne
• | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Apr 22, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 252 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1532860722
• | ISBN-13: 9781532860720