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Re: New Kurtis Book

To: Wester S Potter <wspotter@jps.net>
Subject: Re: New Kurtis Book
From: Glen Barrett <speedtimer@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 18:25:27 -0800
Wes and list
Thats good news, I had sent Gordon some information I had on the Kurtis
roadsters a few months ago. I will be sure to order one. Also I was just given a
book from my good friend Bud Greenleaf, THE FASTEST MOTORCYCLES ON EARTH, BY TOM
MURPHY.
The ISBN 1-8884313-17-5 It's $19.95
Lots of interesting facts and pictures. There are a couple of errors but won't
go into that.
Glen

Wester S Potter wrote:

> List,
>
> I just received a note from a former Bonneville record holder and genuinely
> nice guy Gordon Eliot White.  He has a new book out that is somewhat of a
> companion to his excellent book "Offenhauser, the Legendary American Racing
> Engine and the Men Who Built It."  The new book is The Indinapolis Racing
> Cars of Frank Curtis, 1941 - 1963 a Photo Archive.  I cherish my Offenhauser
> book, it is well written, well researched and written by someone who has an
> insiders knowledge of the engines.  His Bonneville record was set with one.
>
> The second printing of "Offenhauser" sold out in 1999 but Gordon has some
> copies of a third edition.  The new book is $29.95 plus $3.95 postage and
> insurance ( + 15 cents sales tax in Virginia).  If you want both books it
> would be $74.85 total.  (Offenhauser is $39.95 plus $3.95 p&i by itself.)
> Tell him you want it/both autographed!
>
> You can send him a check at; Kurtis Book c/o Gordon White, Box 129,
> Hardyville, VA  23070 ... he isn't set up to take credit cards apparently.
>
> I hope you'll excuse my getting commercial on you but this is a rare
> oportunity to get a first edition of a book that is really well done ... and
> it's by a racer who has been there/done that.  He's now a consultant for the
> Smithsonian in their racing automotive section and encyclopedic in his depth
> of knowledge of the subjects he writes about.  Any review you read about
> "Offenhauser" is lavish in praise of the book.  I'd guess that any time you
> get an award winning newspaperman writing about a subject he knows and
> loves, the result would be excellent.
>
> Might even leave a copy of this e-mail around where your wife could find it.
> Christmas is coming in less than a month.
>
> Happy holidays,
> Wes

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