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Title: Indianapolis Roadsters 1952-1964 by Joe Scalzo ISBN: 0-7603-0634-6 Publisher: MBI Publishing Pub. Date: January, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: beautiful photographs...not so great text....
Comment: This is a badly needed volume, at least to those of us who rememmber the "stand on the gas and turn left" days at Indy, when the cars looked like cars and things like aerodynamics and ground effects didn't exist... Some beautiful color photos plus a lot of b/w pics highlight it. The text skips about covering this driver, then that with what seems to be no special order at all....Surprisingly, only one photo of the car that started (more or less) the roadster era, the car driven by the great Bill Vukovich, who had the breaks gone just bit different would have won 4 STRAIGHT Indy 500's...(He had a steering failure which caused a crash just 8 laps from the end of the '52 race, won in '53&'54, suffered a fatal crash running away from the field in '55)However,the other great names of the roadster era are well-represented:Bryan, Ward, Rathmann, Sachs, Jones and of course, Foyt. The price is bit high, but the photos alone make the book worth it....
Rating: 4
Summary: I loved this book!
Comment: This book is not so much just about the cars as about the whole Indy roadster era. Scalzo covers the hard living characters who participated in the era of the "dinosaurs". His writing style is gritty and a little bit melodramatic but, believe it or not, has actually mellowed since his "Stand On the Gas" days. If you look back on "Indy's" past with affection, and disdain the current over-hyped, over-sanitized and over-marketed racing scene of today (like I, and Scalzo, do), you'll like this book. There are many beautiful photos of the cars that Scalzo talks about as if they were friends and characters he misses.
Rating: 3
Summary: worth a look
Comment: from lacar.com book reviews:
...A scorecard or table illustrating the ties between particular cars, drivers, race records, and especially the car names would have been helpful.
Still, this book has value. Joe Scalzo's writing style is better suited to a magazine format. If you pick up Indianapolis Roadsters and read a few pages at random, you will gain a terrific insight into the days when roadsters ruled the Indy roost. But if you want a cohesive story to take shape or are a hardcore facts and figures kind of person, you will come away disappointed.
If it sounds as though I am flipping a coin to decide whether or not to recommend this book, you are almost right. As a research tool, this book answers very few questions. Yet the firsthand accounts and fabulous photography of a previously neglected topic are fine redeeming qualities and make Indianapolis Roadsters 1952-1964 worth a look.
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Title: Offenhauser by Gordon Eliot White, Kenneth Walton ISBN: 0879388838 Publisher: Motorbooks International Pub. Date: October, 1996 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Indianapolis Racing Cars of Frank Kurtis 1941-1963 Photo Archive by Gordon Eliot White ISBN: 1583880267 Publisher: Iconografix Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The American Dirt Track Racer by Joe Scalzo ISBN: 0760310173 Publisher: MBI Publishing Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Indy Cars of the 1960s (Ludvigsen Library Series) by Karl Ludvigsen ISBN: 1583880526 Publisher: Iconografix Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Novi V-8: Indy Cars 1941 Through 1965 by Karl Ludvigsen, Andy Granatelli ISBN: 1583880372 Publisher: Iconografix Pub. Date: March, 2001 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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