Sports Car Racing, Endurance Car Racing and Brand Specific Car Books. How Many Do You Own?

October 2, 2021

#441

Gentle reader,

Those of you who follow my blog, (THANK YOU!) are aware that I am a lifelong car guy. Now that I am retired, many of the collections we have accrued over the decades have been finding new homes.

Over my lifetime, I have read thousands of books. Prior to our digital age, the main way most people had to read books was the check them out from the local library. Which we as a family visited weekly. Since we could not afford a set of encyclopedias, the only way to find out something was to head to the library and if necessary, ask a librarian for help.

As time went by, I have been buying many books, as far as general reading, thrift stores and the library's book sales were the best places to get them. But for most of my CAR and RACING books, I bought them new from the publisher's web sites, or via Motorbooks.com. 

For specialty books, the audience can be quite small. Thanks to the Internet, I have a acquired a nice, if modest, collection of car books. With more articles and cover photos to follow on this subject as the GROUP photos below will show.

Starting with the racing books. Most are photo laden books. A few, especially the older ones are mostly text.

NOTE: If you are reading this on a PC, if you click on any photograph, a second window will open over the article with ALL of the photos shown as thumbnails at the bottom and the one you clicked on full size. You may either click on or use the arrow keys to go through all the photos. How it works on a "device" I do not know. I purposely do not have any.

Above are all of the car books which I have SO FAR, photographed and edited.

These, above and below are ones I have not gotten to photographing yet.

I purpose built the shelf shown above with the as-yet-unseen-in-this-article top shelf made to house and display diecast cars. 

This scene is from way back in 2008. Much has changed since. All the larger scale cars are now in two upright shelves with Lexan covers. PLUS, ALL the books on photography and camera collecting were sold after I stopped collecting and sold off most of my cameras.

That brings me to the reason I have written THIS article. I am selling off almost all of my car books. I'm retired and no one in my family has the passion for cars and racing I have. SO, all of the car books shown below WILL be for sale on eBay under my seller ID: rfcollectin Items for sale by rfcollectin | eBay

Some of the books, I purchased, thumbed through and put on the shelf. Just as cars are meant to be driven and shoes are made to be worn, books are meant to be read.

ALL of these RACING books will be available for sale starting on Sunday, October 3, 2021 at 9:00 PM 2100 Hours, EST Eastern Standard Time. 

I will show in this article only the covers. If something needs a little clarifying, I will caption those images.

This is an official Ford Motor Company publication from the late 1960's. Very rare.

This book details EVERY Ford GT car made, by chassis number, and if it was raced, it's racing history. For GT40 lovers, this is a gold mine.

This is reprints of English language magazine articles (mostly from the UK) for all those years coverage of the 24 Hours of Le Mans races.

Incredible photography in this coffee table book. 

When I was a teen we lived in Denver, Colorado, I had talked Mom into taking my brother and I to the races. There was no road racing around Denver then, but south of the city near Castle Rock, was the Continental Divide Raceway. An OLD course, then CDR was only being used for drag racing. This book covers road course in north America that no longer exist.

This too is a reprint of English language articles about these racers.

This book was written for older kids so that they could learn about the many types of  car racing at the time.

This books is a must-have for those interested in these fantastic years of endurance racing.

First edition of the late-Sir Stirling Moss' own words about winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans in the late 1950's.

An excellent look at what many consider THE best years of Trans-Am racing in north America.

So, that is all of my RACING books, as I wrote, ALL of these are being offered for sale on eBay starting on October 3rd, 2021 at 9:00 PM here: Items for sale by rfcollectin | eBay

Thank you SO much for reading my humble blog, it is appreciated SO MUCH, and I am humbled by your kind words and comments either here, below, or on Facebook.

Scott

October 2, 2021

#441