The chequered past sports car racing and rallying in Canada, 1951-1991 /
Charters, David A. 1949-
The chequered past sports car racing and rallying in Canada, 1951-1991 / David A. Charters. - Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, (c)2007. - 1 online resource (xv, 348 pages, 24. pages of plates) : illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
1: The amateur age, 1951-1960 -- The visionaries and their vision: the founding of the Canadian automobile sports clubs -- Canadian club: origins of the sports car subculture, 1950-1960 -- Run what ya brung: sports car competition in the amateur age -- Rules and regs: professionalizing the amateurs -- Powershift: the rise of commercial professionalism -- 2: Gathering speed, 1961-1966 -- Behind the wheel: power politics in the CASC -- Trans-Canada: the shell 4000 and the national rally championship, 1961-1966 -- Making tracks: commercializing Canadian racing -- Reach for the top: Canadian racing driver development in the 1960s -- The cutting edge: Bill Sadler and the Can-Am series -- 3: From sport to spectacle, 1967-1991 -- Coming of age? Canadians and international racing -- Winning formula: formula racing and the national championship -- Stage by stage: transforming the national rally championship -- Downshift: the crisis in amateur auto sport, 1969-1975 -- Final laps: the decline and fall of the CASC.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
9781442684881
Canadian Automobile Sport Clubs--History.
Sports car racing--History.--Canada
Sports car events--History.--Canada
Automobile racing--History.--Canada
Automobile rallies--History.--Canada
Electronic Books.
GV1034 / .C447 2007
The chequered past sports car racing and rallying in Canada, 1951-1991 / David A. Charters. - Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, (c)2007. - 1 online resource (xv, 348 pages, 24. pages of plates) : illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
1: The amateur age, 1951-1960 -- The visionaries and their vision: the founding of the Canadian automobile sports clubs -- Canadian club: origins of the sports car subculture, 1950-1960 -- Run what ya brung: sports car competition in the amateur age -- Rules and regs: professionalizing the amateurs -- Powershift: the rise of commercial professionalism -- 2: Gathering speed, 1961-1966 -- Behind the wheel: power politics in the CASC -- Trans-Canada: the shell 4000 and the national rally championship, 1961-1966 -- Making tracks: commercializing Canadian racing -- Reach for the top: Canadian racing driver development in the 1960s -- The cutting edge: Bill Sadler and the Can-Am series -- 3: From sport to spectacle, 1967-1991 -- Coming of age? Canadians and international racing -- Winning formula: formula racing and the national championship -- Stage by stage: transforming the national rally championship -- Downshift: the crisis in amateur auto sport, 1969-1975 -- Final laps: the decline and fall of the CASC.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
9781442684881
Canadian Automobile Sport Clubs--History.
Sports car racing--History.--Canada
Sports car events--History.--Canada
Automobile racing--History.--Canada
Automobile rallies--History.--Canada
Electronic Books.
GV1034 / .C447 2007