Charters, David A.  1949- <br/><br/>
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 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
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<br/><br/><br/>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. <br/>http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781442684881 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Canadian Automobile Sport Clubs--History.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Sports car racing--History.--Canada<br/>Sports car events--History.--Canada<br/>Automobile racing--History.--Canada<br/>Automobile rallies--History.--Canada
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GV1034  / .C447 2007