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These collectibles belonged to Chet Knox, who was at one time, the
owner of racing exhaust systems "Cyclone Headers" in the 1970's.
These exhaust systems were OEM on Carroll Shelby's Cobras and GT350s and many
more prominent drag cars as well as the original Baltimore and other TV show vehicles. He was
also a long time owner of the "Autobooks-Aerobooks" store in Burbank, California.
He has spent an interesting life around race cars and gear-heads, which has
helped him immensely to acquire all of these rare items. He is an automobile
enthusiast that took pride in his items, but is now ready part with his
collection.
Please keep an eye on our site for we have many more items that
were a part of this large and rare collection of scaled-down race cars and the
memorabilia to go with them. It also includes the memorabilia from the Shav
Glick (the Los Angeles Times motorsports writer) estate, which was purchased
soon after his passing in 2007. __________________________________________________________________________________________________
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This listing includes:
Roar from the Sixties American Championship Racing Signed by Dick Wallen
by Dick Wallen; Michael Jordan editor
This book appeared ndinn the Fall of 1997, four years after Fabulous Fifties: American Championship Racing, the book that started what would become a trilogy on American championship racing. Roar From the Sixties
is a massive, 600-page, nearly 7-pound book with production qualities
that very few books devoted to automobile racing come close to
achieving. In that regard, it is a typical product of Dick Wallen
Productions—top-notch binding, an impressive original painting on the
cover, landscape layout, high-quality paper, and hundreds and hundreds
of photographs whose reproduction is rarely little short of superb. In
the full-page spreads, the details that one can find are amazing but
this is equally true of almost any of the other photos, making it an
extraordinary publication on that account alone.
It is also a typical Dick Wallen Production inasmuch as Wallen is
responsible for layout and design, Michael Jordan is editor and author
of the first chapter, and former high school teacher Bob Schilling (the
thesis for his masters’ degree was on Rex Mays) doing the bulk of the
heavy lifting, i.e. the writing. He also did the 1960–1969 season
reviews and the epilogue on the 1970 season, with the box scores and
statistics being handled by the late Phil Harms. Parnelli Jones penned
the foreword and Johnny Rutherford the first chapter, giving a view of
the decade from the driver’s perspective. Dave Argabright provides a
chapter on the drivers of the era, and Wallen writes about the Sixties
from the viewpoint of being behind a movie camera.
As in the case of the Fabulous Fifties, the present book was
a godsend for those interested in American championship racing. While
one might be tempted to roll one’s eyes at times as Schilling introduces
each season by putting it into the context of other affairs during that
year—which often incorporates various cultural markers such as movies
and television shows—the season
reviews themselves tend to be useful and workmanlike, even if there are
times when opinion dilutes fact or that they often seem to stray from
the matter at hand. There are no foot- or endnotes and not much a
bibliography.
The box scores were constructed by the late Phil Harms with Donald Davidson of the Indianapolis
Motor Speedway doing the proofreading for accuracy. Harms credits Bob
Mount for assisting in the difficult and challenging process of
identifying the chassis and engine combinations. Hard as it is, it must
be remembered that once upon a time this sort of data was not a priority
for those reporting on the American championship racing scene. Cars
were nearly always referred by the name they carried that season, such
as the “Bob Estes Special” or even the “Agajanian-Willard Battery
Special”, a name that covers two different cars, the A.J. Watson
Roadster used on paved ovals and the dirt track car built by Lujie
Lesovsky.
Although it is nearing two decades since the publication of Roar From the Sixties,
it has remained the bedrock for anyone interested in reading about the
United States Auto Club’s National Championship Trail during the 1960s.
It was an era during which the American racing scene in general changed,
dramatically, with the 1960 USAC season bearing almost no resemblance
to the 1969 season, the two seasons being as different as night from
day, to use a very appropriate cliché. By the 1971 season, the dirt
tracks would be gone from the National Championship Trail, following the
front-engined cars from the paved ovals into the past, excised from the
present.
From 1960 to 1969, A.J. Foyt Jr. won half of the 10 national
championships contested during those years. It is easy for many today to
forget just how dominating and truly good Foyt really was at his peak.
He also won three of the International 500 Mile Sweepstakes races at
Indianapolis. Mario Andretti won three national championships during
those years, along with the 1967 Daytona 500 and starting his first
world championship event from pole at the 1968 United States Grand Prix
held at Watkins
Glen. Along with Foyt, Andretti was one of the foremost American
drivers of the decade. However, Rodger Ward (1962) and Bobby Unser
(1968) also won both the Indianapolis 500 mile race and the national
championship during these years. It was also the era of drivers like
Bobby Marshman, Jim Hurtubise, Parnelli Jones, Jim McElreath, Lloyd Ruby, Al Unser, Joe Leonard, and Dan Gurney – along with others from overseas such as Jack Brabham, Jim Clark, Jackie Stewart, Denny Hulme, and Graham Hill. It was an amazing era—and few works cover it as well as this book!
No doubt, Roar From the Sixties deserves a spot on the
bookshelf of anyone interested in the history of American championship
racing, whether as a casual reader or a serious automotive competition
historian.
Please review all attached photos
and be sure to ask any questions. Thank you.
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