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Title: Offenhauser by Gordon Eliot White, Kenneth Walton ISBN: 0-87938-883-8 Publisher: Motorbooks International Pub. Date: October, 1996 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Really amazing book
Comment: The Offenhauser is arguably the most successful racing engine ever designed, and this book traces its earliest incarnation (when it was the "Miller") to the last turbo-charged days...Inbetween it powered an staggering number of conseutive Indy 500 winners, plus AAA/USCA sprint and midget champions, not to mention IMCA and amazingly even some road racing wins (not to mention possibly the least succesful grand prix car of all time, the Scarab) The "techie" will find loads of specs, cross-sections, and line drawings, the vintage race fans plenty of photos of the cars of the era. (Note to the author: a larger color section in the next edition please.)A really great addition to those of us interested in the history of auto racing....
Rating: 5
Summary: Offenhauser
Comment: I have just finished Gordon White's book on Offenhauser Racing Products, and fascinating is a word that comes to mind to describe the effort. Idid not attend the Indy 500 until 1994 and missed all those wonderful years when the Miller/Goosen/Offenhauser engines dominated the race. I was lucky enough to attend several years of Championship Car races at the old Sacramento Fairgrounds and witnessed the Offy in action. Gordon has done a fine job bringing back some of those memories, and making a strong case in my view that these individuals were American heroes! If you are at all interested in things mechanical, this is a must read!
Rating: 5
Summary: Readable, serious history of an auto racing icon
Comment: Offenhauser tells the story of the engine that dominated American Championship, sprint and midget and even sports car racing for nearly a half-century. It is surprising that such a book was not written long ago, but the author has done an amazing job of research into racing's past. He tells both the human story of the men who built the Offy - Miller, Goossen, Sobraske, Meyer, Drake and Fred Offenhauser himself, and the technical and political story of the old four-banger's rise to victory at Indianapolis, its long domination there, its fall in 1965, rebirth with turbocharging and final demise in the 1980s. The collection of photographs is amazing - many I never saw before as well as those of well-known drivers such as Foyt who drove Offenhauser-powered cars. Anyone remotely interested in auto racing should definitely have this book.
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Title: Indianapolis Roadsters 1952-1964 by Joe Scalzo ISBN: 0760306346 Publisher: Motorbooks International Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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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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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: Kurtis-Kraft: Masterworks of Speed and Style by Gordon Eliot White ISBN: 0760309108 Publisher: Motorbooks International Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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