Ted, I am always up for a book, especially on favorite subjects. Count in
for one..
Joe Alexander
645 1st Street
Jesup, Iowa 50648
Thanks for thinking about the FoT Coffers.
Joe
> 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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