Born 1906 in London as the son of an English mother and a German father, Rudolf Uhlenhaut was an engineer and designer for Daimler-Benz. He became famous for his achievements regarding the Silver Arrows, the 300 SL with the famous gull wing doors, the legendary Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR, known as the “Uhlenhaut Coupé” and the various experimental C 111 versions well-known for several speed records. Uhlenhaut joined Daimler-Benz in 1931 after finishing his studies of mechanical engineering in Munich. In 1936 he took over as head of the racing department and conducted the Silver Arrows and Rudolf Caracciola to their 1937 European championship. Based upon the 300 SL “Gullwing”, initially a thoroughbred racing sports car, he created the road versions W198 and the smaller open-topped W121, both launched at the International Motor Sports Show in New York 1954. Though Uhlenhaut never owned a car of his own, his official company car, a 300 SLR with a top speed of 290 km/h became famous as the Uhlenhaut Coupé – the fastest car of its day authorized for road use! This first ever comprehensive biography of Rudolf Uhlenhaut, illustrated with many previously unpublished photographs, depicts his life and technical achievements, presenting a complete compilation of all the patents he filed and exploring their significance. It also draws a vivid picture of the person behind the technical innovations and tries to explore his character and motivation.
The ultimate journey for fans of railroads and the Mother Road!
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Originally paved in the 1920s, Route 66 has been a staple of the American Road Trip through the Great Depression and was a major method of the bootlegging operation. Spanning a total of 8 states and stretching from Chicago all the way to the Pacific Ocean, Route 66 was appropriately named the Motheroad. An icon of American Folklore, between the pages there are a slew of old gas stations, restaurants, diners, rest stops, and other attractions. Each must-see vestige is peppered with the history of the area.
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Steve McQueen had a terrible childhood. This made him the man he was. Abandoned by his father before he was born and left aside by his mother, he grew up almost like an orphan until he was an adolescent and became the greatest Hollywood star ever. McQueen was a magnet at the box office because, rather than an actor, he was a style. He understood and took advantage of this, even in spite of making the list of his enemies even longer. People said he was a very difficult person, simply because he was not a tame lamb which could be easily handled. He knew what was good for him. He argued to death with directors to have things done his own way. He acted like this in all aspects of life, always on the edge. By the time he died, he had accumulated 55 cars, 210 motorbikes and was beginning to take an interest in old airplanes. But his love was not just collecting. He used to say ” I’m not sure whether I’m an actor who competes or a driver who acts”. Marcelo Abeal, the author, is an enthusiastic fan of Steve, as well as an actor and stuntman himself. After doing thorough research on Steve’s life for over three years, he now shares his work in this unique compilation of observations, anecdotes, exclusive interviews and comments made by close friends, colleagues and people who knew Steve very well. Steve’s most memorable films are “The Magnificent Seven”, “The Great Escape” (exclusive comment by Tim Gibbs, stunt), “Bullitt” (exclusive interview to Don Gordon, one of his best friends), “Le Mans”, “The Getaway”, “Papillon”, “Tom Horn” (exclusive interview with his friend, actor Mel Novak), and the series “Wanted Dead or Alive” (exclusive interview with Loren Janes, his stunt all his life). Plus, an interview with the last doctor who assisted him, Dr. Cesar Santos Vargas.
Eliminators 1968 Nationals
This film opens with Wally Parks at Indianapolis Raceway Park in the NHRA nationals of 1968. You will see legends like Don Garlits, Don Prudhomme and Tommy Ivo, just to name a few. 2 engine rails! do you remember Shirley Shahan (The Dragon Lady!). She runs a 10.96 ET. Also the Sox & Martin race team, Ronny Sox driving Dick Smothers in the Smothers Brothers car!
MAN WITH A WRENCH
Drag racing in the late 60’s, this film is a time capsule showcasing famous cars of the era Sox and Martin , Don Prudhomme and many others.
CIRCLE OF RACING
This film goes full circle starting with Ontario Motor Speedway, the California 500 and going to sprint cars and then drag racing this segment shows many unique and famous cars of the era. A run down the 1/4 mile inside the Sox and Martin car. Trans Am at Riverside and stock cars at Riverside, early NASCAR.
TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS
Produced by Hurst Performance and the NHRA in the mid 60’s, this film takes place on labor day and shows a time when the average guy could go out and compete with the big boys!
Known as the Main Street of America and the Mother Road, U.S. Route 66 is the nation’s best known highway. Once the microcosm of a culture increasingly connected by automobiles, its sights and attractions are now a fascinating reflection of a nation on the move. Travel this iconic highway through the heart of America with Route 66 Backroads as your guide. This lavishly illustrated book steers you from Chicago to Los Angeles, traveling through the lowlands of the American Plains and the high plateaus of New Mexico and Arizona, from the Great Lakes to the mighty Pacific Ocean, and through major metropolises and remote country towns. Branch away from the Mother Road, and you encounter gems hidden beyond today’s standard motels and tourist traps—the quaint frontier communities that date back to the nation’s westward expansion; the legacy of ancient native cultures; and the awe-inspiring natural wonders that have graced these lands since time immemorial. State parks, wildlife refuges, museums, historic sites, literary landmarks, and much more are there to be explored within a few hours’ drive from the path of Route 66. The fifty trips included here offer new travel opportunities for the thousands of road-trippers who follow this legendary route, looking for something more.
When our young heroes began returning from World War II, they applied the knowledge gained from Uncle Sam towards the fledgling hot rod movement. While speeds increased, rodders learned the hard way just how dangerous it was to “drag it out” on the city streets. In the mid 50s, organized drag racing gave hot rodders a safe place to race. Cars evolved from pre-war coupes and sedans to crude “rail jobs,” which were stripped and narrowed frame rails with nothing more than an engine, driveline, seat, and steering gear. As hot rodders were the true Mothers of Invention, the cars later became hand-made, finely crafted “Slingshot Dragsters.” Dubbed the “Kings of the Sport,” these supercharged, fuel-injected Slingshots burned exotic fuels and captured the attention of every young enthusiast from coast to coast. The cars dazzled with gleaming chrome, Candy Apple, Pearlescent, and Metalflake paint jobs, while the nitromethane fuel produced an unforgettable thunderous sound. This new volume contains all the stars that waged war on quarter-mile strips of asphalt from California to Maine. It’s a vivid pictorial display that captures the true essence of extreme acceleration in all its glory.
Two women who scarcely know each other, but with a common love of exotic landscape, vintage wheels, and high adventure (one a well-heeled Pacific Heights motorcycle enthusiast, the other a Santa Cruz-based automotive journalist, car fanatic, and mother of two small children) join forces to tackle an arduous endurance rally, driving a classic car over ten thousand miles of rough and exotic terrain in the Peking to Paris Motor Challenge. Prince Borghese’s Trail is a classic travel adventure narrative in the tradition of Alexandra David-Neel and Beryl Markham.
148 pages, 344 illustrations, size 8.25 x 11 inches. Why is this book considered by many automotive historians as the “Most Complete Account” of the 1950 Carrera Panamericana Race? When the inaugural “Carrera Panamericana” road race was run in 1950, there was very little coverage of the race printed in the contemporary press of the day. Most European publications totally ignored the race or perhaps they did not even know it was happening, and while a few US newspapers managed to print a paragraph or two on a daily basis, it certainly was not “front page” news and much of the information was questionable and sometimes inaccurate. Even the reports that appeared in the specialized “Auto Racing” magazines were sketchy at best, and it appeared that those magazines did not take the race too seriously, or attach any significance to the possible future potential of the event. Looking back, it was fortuitous that publisher Floyd Clymer secured the services of Roland Goodman, a US newspaper reporter living in Mexico, to cover the race in depth and to document all of the finite details such as the race statistics, accurate lists of the drivers, cars etc. Had the Clymer-Goodman relationship not happened, much of the history of the 1950 race would have been lost forever. All too often details become clouded over the years and the Spanish language custom followed by most Mexican parents of attaching the mother’s name after the father’s name such that the son Agustin of Mr. Garcia and the former Miss Lopez would be named Agustin Garcia Lopez and, at times, may be referred to as Garcia or Lopez, which makes for questionable interpretation of reports at a later date. In other words, you had to be there to get it right and Roland Goodman was Floyd Clymer’s “man on the spot” and our thanks should go out to both of them for creating this comprehensive record of the 1950 “Carrera Panamericana”.
Like no other Route 66 Book. An interactive photographic journey along the length of the Mother Road. Featuring 2,006 carefully selected digital images of hundreds of historic icons, landmarks and relics, which remain along the old highway. Encompasses all eight Route 66 states under one cover.
It is an interactive Historic Route 66 learning experience based on over two and a half years of research and thousands of hours of Internet work.
This book is a must-have for the first time Route 66 traveler, while at the same time being an educational manual for the more experienced 66 roadie, and also a graphic documentation and record of what landmarks and artifacts remain along old 66, preserved in vivid color for the benefit of our future generations.
Images are included of rare and hard to access places most 66 travelers will never experience, such as the La Bajada Escarpment, Diamond Creek Road, the Cuervo Cutoff, the 55th Street Detour, Canyon Padre Bridge and the Ghost Bridge site.
This DVD is great for the first time engine builder/novice but is geared towards the person that knows how to install a crank, rods, pistons, and knows how to torque down a cylinder head correctly, but wants to take their engine building to the next level……
These questions are answered in the video………….
What is quench distance??? and why is it so important in a pump gas motor??? (or any motor, for that matter)
If you advance the timing on your motor at idle, and the idle speed picks up, why does it pick up??? Think about that for a minute…….If you’re not adding air or fuel, why does the RPM pick up???
Do you know why and how changing the float level affects the fuel curve???
Do you know how to figure out how much timing your motor wants at idle??? and do you know why initial timing is so important???
Do you think that if the power valve number is higher than your manifold vacuum (at idle) it’ll dump fuel into your motor at idle?????
If you don’t know all the answers to those questions, you’d learn a LOT by purchasing this video……..
The video covers what blue printing is, why and how to check lifter rotation, the pro’s and con’s of hydraulic, solid, flat tappet and roller camshafts, how to measure for correct pushrod length, reversion, fuel fall out, air speed, power valves, quench, detonation, camshaft degreeing with a timing chain and gear drive, how to adjust valves, how to use and tune with an O2 sensor, how to figure out how much initial and total timing your motor wants, how to use a dial back timing light, how to curve a distributor, why float level is important, and how to fire a motor for the first time……….
Ghost towns lie all along the Mother Road. The quintessential boom-and-bust highway of the American West, Route 66 once hosted a thriving array of boom towns built around oil mines, railroad stops, cattle ranches, resorts, stagecoach stops, and gold mines. Join Route 66 expert Jim Hinckley as he tours more than 25 ghost towns, rich in stories and history, complemented by gorgeous sepia-tone and color photography by Kerrick James. Also includes directions and travel tips for your ghost-town explorations along Route 66!
Pancho Barnes was a force of nature, a woman who lived a big, messy, colorful, unconventional life. She ran through three fortunes, four husbands, and countless lovers. She outflew Amelia Earhart, outsmarted Howard Hughes, outdrank the Mexican Army, and out- maneuvered the U.S. government. In The Happy Bottom Riding Club, award-winning author Lauren Kessler tells the story of a high-spirited, headstrong woman who was proud of her successes, unabashed by her failures, and the architect of her own legend.
Florence “Pancho” Barnes was a California heiress who inherited a love of flying from her grandfather, a pioneer balloonist in the Civil War. Faced with a future of domesticity and upper-crust pretensions, she ran away from her responsibilities as wife and mother to create her own life. She cruised South America. She trekked through Mexico astride a burro. She hitchhiked halfway across the United States. Then, in the late 1920s, she took to the skies, one of a handful of female pilots.
She was a barnstormer, a racer, a cross-country flier, and a Hollywood stunt pilot. She was, for a time, “the fastest woman on earth,” flying the fastest civilian airplane in the world. She was an intimate of movie stars, a script doctor for the great director Erich von Stroheim, and, later in life, a drinking buddy of the supersonic jet jockey Chuck Yeager. She ran a wild and wildly successful desert watering hole known as the Happy Bottom Riding Club, the raucous bar and grill depicted in The Right Stuff.
In The Happy Bottom Riding Club, Lauren Kessler presents a portrait, both authoritative and affectionate, of a woman who didn’t play by women’s rules, a woman of large appetites–emotional, financial, and sexual–who called herself “the greatest conversation piece that ever existed.”
In THE LIMIT, Michael Cannell tells the enthralling story of Phil Hill-a lowly California mechanic who would become the first American-born driver to win the Grand Prix-and, on the fiftieth anniversary of his triumph, brings to life a vanished world of glamour, valor, and daring.
With the pacing and vivid description of a novel, THE LIMIT charts the journey that brought Hill from dusty California lots racing midget cars into the ranks of a singular breed of men, competing with daredevils for glory on Grand Prix tracks across Europe. Facing death at every turn, these men rounded circuits at well over 150 mph in an era before seat belts or roll bars-an era when drivers were “crushed, burned, and beheaded with unnerving regularity.”
From the stink of grease-smothered pits to the long anxious nights in lonely European hotels, from the tense camaraderie of teammates to the trembling suspense of photo finishes, THE LIMIT captures the 1961 season that would mark the high point of Hill’s career. It brings readers up close to the remarkable men who surrounded Hill on the circuit-men like Hill’s teammate and rival, the soigné and cool-headed German count Wolfgang Von Trips (nicknamed “Count Von Crash”), and Enzo Ferrari, the reclusive and monomaniacal padrone of the Ferrari racing empire.
Race by race, THE LIMIT carries readers to its riveting and startling climax-the final contest that would decide it all, one of the deadliest in Grand Prix history.
Travel Route 66 with two guys as they fulfill the dream of a lifetime by driving coast-to-coast and back in a forty-one year old Cadillac. Experience the challenges, the thrills, the excitement and the triumph of their thirty-eight day road trip. Enjoy the iconic places and the friendly people of The Mother Road. Envision yourself in the hundreds of full-color photos that chronicle their adventure. Find the answer to the question, “Can two good friends spend almost every waking moment together for more than five weeks and not kill each other?” Not only does this book document that they can, but it demonstrates that dreams do come true and it invites you to come along for the ride. Wish it, dream it, do it!
“Pack your bags, hop in the car, and head out on a haunted adventure across legendary ROUTE 66
Embrace the spirit of adventure and freedom with an exciting journey of spine-tingling paranormal activity and American history along Route 66. This travel companion transports you from Chicago, Illinois, to Santa Monica, California, exploring over one hundred ghostly hot spots filled with fascinating facts and lingering spirits.
From ghost hunters to avid fans of the Mother Road, everyone can take their own haunted road trip on Route 66 with this essential, easy-to-read guide. Explore the famous highway through historic locations and gripping ghost stories about the St. Valentine’s Day massacre in Chicago, the restless spirit of Charlie Chaplin that still haunts the Venice Beach.”
Weather, darkness and twists of fate have contributed to more than three hundred airplane crashes in San Bernardino County, California. Many of these accidents occurred in the vast Mojave Desert, others on the cloud-shrouded, snow-capped mountains of the largest county in the lower forty-eight states. Searches often were labored yet fruitless, even for the privileged: Frank Sinatra’s mother perished here in a downed plane. The quest for an aircraft containing $5,000 in cash has become the stuff of legend. Tales of survival in uninhabited, rugged landscapes have been especially harrowing. Join renowned aircraft-crash search specialist G. Pat Macha for dozens of sorrowful, triumphant, touching and surprising true stories of those who lived through the ordeals of plane crashes–and others who didn’t.
Eliminators 1968 Nationals
This film opens with Wally Parks at Indianapolis Raceway Park in the NHRA nationals of 1968. You will see legends like Don Garlits, Don Prudhomme and Tommy Ivo, just to name a few. 2 engine rails! do you remember Shirley Shahan (The Dragon Lady!). She runs a 10.96 ET. Also the Sox & Martin race team, Ronny Sox driving Dick Smothers in the Smothers Brothers car!
MAN WITH A WRENCH
Drag racing in the late 60’s, this film is a time capsule showcasing famous cars of the era Sox and Martin , Don Prudhomme and many others.
CIRCLE OF RACING
This film goes full circle starting with Ontario Motor Speedway, the California 500 and going to sprint cars and then drag racing this segment shows many unique and famous cars of the era. A run down the 1/4 mile inside the Sox and Martin car. Trans Am at Riverside and stock cars at Riverside, early NASCAR.
TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS
Produced by Hurst Performance and the NHRA in the mid 60’s, this film takes place on labor day and shows a time when the average guy could go out and compete with the big boys!
Long one of America’s most cherished byways, Route 66 remains a popular tourist attraction and travel route for thousands of travelers every year. While stretches of the once-glorious road have been paved over or bypassed by the interstates, the journey from Chicago to Santa Monica along the path of the “double six” remains chock-full of unique roadside attractions, spectacular natural landscapes, and fascinating historical landmarks. Communities throughout each of the eight states touched by the “Main Street of America”—Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California—have embraced this vital piece of American history and offer a vast array of opportunities to experience the grandeur as well as the lost innocence of the glory days of Route 66. In Travel Route 66, Route 66 expert and enthusiast Jim Hinckley provides detailed descriptions and itineraries that allow travelers of all ages and inclinations to explore the myriad wonders to be found along the highway’s 2,500 miles. In addition to specific recommendations for places to visit, eat, and spend the night, Hinckley presents history for the highway and its attractions and suggests detours and daytrips off the beaten path, all while providing a vivid picture of the road that has long captured the imaginations of travelers from throughout the world. Illustrated with a wealth of color photos and vintage memorabilia, Travel Route 66 is a practical and entertaining guide to the America’s Mother Road.
Winner of eight world championships between 1964 and 1977, Phil Read MBE is Britain’s most successful living motorcycle road racer. Starting out on a bike bought by his doting mother in 1956, he announced his entry in big-time racing with an Isle of Man TT victory in 1961. Three years later he took his first world title, also the first for the Japanese Yamaha factory he raced with.
Four more Yamaha-mounted titles followed including one hard-fought as a privateer, plus two in a row in 1973 and 1974 in the Blue Riband 500cc class with the mighty Italian MV Agusta team. An eighth world championship came from Read’s courageous ride to victory on wet roads in the 1977 Formula 1 TT race, on a heavy 810cc Honda.
In this revealing autobiography, the Prince of Speed vividly recalls hectic track battles against riders like Mike Hailwood, Giacomo Agostini, and Barry Sheene, all of whom he beat at various times. “Rebel Read”, who was never far from controversy, frankly describes life in the grand prix circus: the glamour, the danger, the money, the politics and the sex.
