Greetings FOT list community. Here is a Christmas gift idea that also
benefits FOT. A friend of mine, Sam Moses, wrote a book in 1986 called
"Fast Guys, Rich Guys and Idiots". A chronicle of Sam's racing season.
Sam was the motor sports editor for Sports Illustrated. Later on he
became associate editor of AutoWeek. "Fast Guys" was sold out in 9
months and not reprinted. Sam has reprinted his book. The book sells for
$21.95. But, Sam personalized a group of books for us. These are selling
for $24.95 each. Postage approximately $4.75 by priority mail and should
reach you in time for Christmas. $3 from each sale will go to the FOT
coffers. Buy early, buy often. The following writeup sums up the book
very well. I read the book in 1986 when it first came out and liked what
I saw about Sam's competitive attitude. A phone call to Sam and 2 months
later, he and I won a 24 hour showroom stock race. The write-up below is
from the publisher. Thanks for your time. Ted
Sam Moses, a motorsports writer for Sports Illustrated, was assigned to
go racing and write about what happened. Fast Guys, Rich Guys, and
Idiots is a personal odyssey that peers over the cliff of change and
into the pit of obsession. From small-time races to glittery grands
prix, it lays bare the greed, lust, and desperation of every driver for
time behind the wheel and a faster car. It explains the perfectionism
behind taking a turn at the limit and describes the intoxicating thrill
of stealing down the Daytona backstraight at nearly two hundred miles an
hour.
The core of Mose's story takes place in the heartland of stock car
racing, there he finds a spot on a team in Ether, North Carolina. The
team's owner is a tough Louisiana oil man, its crew chief a lanky,
laconic Texan, and its number-one driver a hairy-chested leadfoot who
learned fast driving on backwoods Georgia roads, delivering beauty
supplies in his Mustang. Crashes echo throughout the tale that follows,
five of them the author's own.
Sam Moses was a staff writer for Sports Illustrated for seventeen years
on the motorsports beat. He worked as deputy editor at AutoWeek and
received automotive journalisms prestigious Ken Purdy Award. He is the
author of At All Costs: How a Crippled Ship and Two American Merchant
Mariners Reversed the Tide of World War II.
A candid, often hilarious account of [Mosess] experiences on the
tracks, in the garages and in the gasoline alleys of the racing
worldbut especially memorable is the wild variety of characters Moses
met along the way. The book might have been written twenty years ago,
but racing is still populated by fast guys, rich guys, and
idiots.Brock Yates, Wall Street Journal
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Ted Schumacher
tedtsimx@bright.net
http://www.tsimportedautomotive.com
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