Curtis Turner Racing Stats (includes My Life with Curtis Turner)

Wright, Margaret Sue Turner (and Ann Ross Turner)

ISBN 10: 1466463880 / ISBN 13: 9781466463882

Published by Curtis Turner Museum, NP, 2012

About this Item

An ex-library copy of this tall-format photo-illustrated paperback. The usual ex-libris markings, but no card pocket. The binding is sound, the text is clean/unmarked, and there is little wear to the covers.

Seller Inventory # 061050

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Curtis Turner Racing Stats (includes My Life with Curtis Turner)
• Publisher: Curtis Turner Museum, NP
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1466463880
• ISBN 13: 9781466463882
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
• Book Type: Book

About this title

Synopsis

Curtis Turner was a professional athlete in the field of stockcar racing, one of the fifty greatest NASCAR drivers of all time, and called the Babe Ruth of racing by Sports Illustrated. Curtis was one of the original group of men who met at the Streamline Hotel, in Daytona FL and helped found the historic and fastest growing sport in America and the world: NASCAR The book contains the details and stats of his racing career from 1946 to 1968. The book contains a heart-felt article written by Ann Ross Turner, (now deceased) his wife during his racing career. This book is written and compiled by his daughter, Margaret Sue Turner Wright, who was right there during the growth of her Dad's phenomenal career. Curtis Turner was also the founder of the Charlotte Motor Speedway.

About the Author

Margaret Sue Turner Wright is the Daughter of her celebrity NASCAR and Stockcar racing Legendary Father, Curtis Turner. She was taught how to drive by him and later became a graduate in the first graduating class of The Safe High Speed Performance Driving School, which her Father founded on his beloved track, the Charlotte Motor Speedway, in Charlotte, NC. Margaret Sue and her Father were very close throughout his life and she remembers growing up in a life that was somewhat removed from the life lived after the loss of her beloved Father, while she was attending Roanoke College. She has wanted the world to know about her Dad’s contributions to the world of stock car racing, NASCAR and the entrepreneurial business world as well. And equally important, she hopes thru her book to give Hope and Inspiration to people who have struggled in life against the odds as her Father did and won against all the odds. ‘Anything is possible’, her Daddy always said. And so it was, and so it is! In her personal life, Margaret Sue is a wife, Mother of 5, Grandmother of 2 and also a professional Fine Arts Artist, www.ArtzyVilla.com writer, musician, Reiki Master healer and founder of the Lonely Arts Club for Plein Air Painters in the Roanoke Region as well as founder of an online museum in honor of her Father, Curtis Turner: www.CurtisTurnerMuseum.com. She is a community volunteer and founding member of several nonprofit organizations: Blue-Ridge Southwest Virginia Film office, www.BlueRidgeSWVAFilm.org Science of Being Lightbearers, Virginia Center, www.scienceofbeing.com and Valley Community Church of Divine Science, www.vccds.com . Margaret Sue also writes alternately with her husband, Barry Wright for a bi-monthly inspirational column for the Lifestream Center’s newspaper. www.lifestreamcenter.org/news.html.