Modern GT Racing Today's Fastest Cars on the World's Greatest Tracks

Friedman, Dave

ISBN 10: 076032669X / ISBN 13: 9780760326695

Published by Motorbooks, 2006

About this Item

Motorbooks, St Paul, MN, 2006, First Edition, Signed, Quarto, 192 p. this is the true first edition(2006) SIGNED by Dave Friedman!!!Book has some edgewear from shelving, but is essentially Near Fine to Fine. Noted & esteemed photog Dave Friedman has signed to the striking dayglo green ffep/flyleaf. Jacket has light loss/damage to rear where a sticker has been removed. Very slight wear along extremities with some chafing, front & back is dust-dulled/rubbed but jacket is complete & bright; still has the promo "review postcard" affixed to rear inner flap.Inv. # 92593 bds 2023 192 pp.

Seller Inventory # 92593

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Modern GT Racing Today's Fastest Cars on the World's Greatest Tracks
• Publisher: Motorbooks
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 076032669X
• ISBN 13: 9780760326695
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Automobilia

About this title

Synopsis

Modern GT race cars are some of the fastest, most exciting race cars this side of a Formula 1 track?an amazing variety of full-race versions of the world’s most iconic production cars from Ferrari, Maserati, Aston Martin, Corvette, and Porsche. This book takes you to the world’s most famous racetracks, where these fantastic machines face off: places like Le Mans, Sebring, Daytona, Road America, Laguna Seca and more. Author and photographer Dave Friedman covers the truly impressive range of classes, cars, drivers (including NASCAR great Dale Earnhardt Jr. in a Corvette GT car), and venues represented by GT racing. Friedman also offers a look at select historical GT cars and links the lineage of these rare vehicles of the 50s, 60s, and 70s with today’s top cars.

 

About the Author

Author/photographer Dave Friedman has spent the past 40-plus years chasing race cars all around the globe. He is the author of several Motorbooks titles, such as Cobra: The Shelby American Original Archives 1962–1965; Trans-Am: The Pony Car Wars 1966–1972; and Pro Sports Car Racing in America 1958–1974. On the rare occasion that he is home, he resides in Newport Beach, California.