Maximum Performance: Mopar Super Stock Drag Racing 1962 - 1969 - Softcover

Schild, Jim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0760355657 ISBN 13: 9780760355657

Publisher: Motorbooks, 2017

Synopsis

Maximum Performance gives you the full details on Chrysler’s 1960's-era drag racing history, when they revolutionized the sport with top drivers, monster engines, and experimental cars.

Since the early days of racing, Chrysler, Dodge, and Plymouth have dominated drag strips and race tracks. In 1955 alone, Chrysler 300s won 37 major stock car races and clinched both the NASCAR and AAA stock car championships.

Although the impressive engine options of 1950s consistently out-performed the competition, they were a mere opening act for the extremes of performance that would be unleashed throughout the 1960s--the golden era of drag racing and factory super-performance cars.

Maximum Performance: Mopar Super Stock Drag Racing 1962-1969 details Chrysler's amazing dominance in this era. Its drivers were among drag racing's first paid professional racers, and this book covers the complete story of Mopar drag racing accompanied by historical imagery as well as contemporary photos. This is the real story behind Super Stock and Factory Experimental drag racing as told the people who lived it!

About this title

About the Author:

Jim Schild is the publisher of The Auto Review and is the author of several books in the Collector’s Originality Guide series, including Challenger and Barracuda 1970–1974, Chevrolet Camaro 1970–1981, and Ford Model A. He has also written two acclaimed histories of Chrysler’s racing efforts, Proving Ground: A History of Dodge, Plymouth, and Chrysler Racing, and Maximum Performance: Mopar Super Stock Drag Racing 1962–1969. Schild lives in Columbia, Illinois, and is a member of 15 local and national collector car organizations, including the Society of Automotive Historians.

Review:

Old Cars Weekly, Nov. 9, 2006

“Schild argues that if it weren’t for Chrysler’s participation and sponsorship of Super Stock and factory experimental drag racing, the sport of drag racing would not be what it is today. He’s right, of course, and you’ll agree with him after flipping through the pages of the ‘meat’ of Chrysler’s glory days.”

About this edition

• Publisher: Motorbooks
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0760355657
• ISBN 13: 9780760355657
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160