Those Wild Fuel Altereds: Drag Racing in the Sixties

Don Montgomery [Published Date: 1997]. Hardcover, 191 pp. First edition. Very good in good dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges of covers. Binding tight. Previous owner's small bookplate at bottom of dedication page. Otherwise pages are clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a 1" tear to the paper over the top edge of the front cover near the spine and a few other smaller nicks and tears and creasing along edges. Light overall scuffing, aging and soiling to jacket as well. Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Black and white illustrations throughout. [from front jacket flap] The most unpredictable, unbelievable and thrilling cars in the 1960s drag racing had to be the Fuel Altereds. Action with Fuel Altereds could include smoky tire runs, cars skating sideways, wheelstands or even expensive blower explosions. Because each run seemed to be a new adventure the cars were notoriously inconsistent. Thus it was almost impossible to predict the winners in Fuel Altered Eliminator shows. That helped make Fuel Altered racing more exciting. The book tells the history of the Fuel Altereds. It begins with the 1957 fuel ban (no nitro or alcohol), explaining how Fuel Roadster and Fuel Coupe competition was reborn and expanded to become the Fuel Altereds. By 1967 the Fuel Altereds had entered into their best years. After 1971 the major changes in drag racing resulted in declining Fuel Altered activity, even as the racing was getting better. Fuel Altereds have a special place in drag racing history. They were fast and much more than exciting. The cars had names like "Winged Express," "Pure Hell," 'Rat Trap," "Pure Heaven," "Nanook," "The Mob," and "Magnificent 7." The Fuel Altereds presented some great Fuel Altered Eliminator programs. And they did it themselves with no help from the sanctioning bodies of drag racing. Here is the history of Those Wild Fuel Altereds.…