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Modified fans everywhere know the legendary name Bugsy Stevens, and his amazing story has at last been told. Whether tooling around the tiny bull rings in Texas while in the Service, or driving the famous NASCAR ovals nearer his Massachusetts home, or competing on the high banks of Daytona International, Bugsy Stevens did it all with the skill of a seasoned professional and the merriment of a Saturday night beer hall. Stevens perspective is profound and touching, as he deals deeply with issues such as racing ethics, driving styles, track types, and even the deaths of so many of his buddies. As told to his friend Bones Bourcier, an internationally claimed motorsports journalist.

Bugsy, the Life and Times of Bugs Stevens

Coastal 181

From farm boy to nine-time NASCAR National Champion, Richie Evans raced through life in the fast lane. Motorsports biographer Bones Bourcier was along for much of the ride as a reporter, observer and friend, and now he tells the complete and unabridged story of the man voted "NASCAR's greatest modified driver." Weaving together over 300 photographs and excerpts from hundreds of hours of interviews with competitors, crew members, friends and family members, "RICHIE!" takes us on a virtual journey back to the time when modifieds ruled and Evans was King. This is the perfect gift for racing fans of all ages.

Richie! The Fast Life and Times of Nascar's Greatest Modified Driver: The Richie Evans Story

In 2011 acclaimed racing journalist Bones Bourcier sat down with Parnelli Jones, the Indy 500 winner often referred to as America s most versatile race driver. It was quite the conversation and resulted in an extraordinary book about an extraordinary man. In As a Matter of Fact I AM Parnelli Jones, Jones and Bourcier track Parnelli s wild years on the infamous California Jalopy circuit and his rise through Sprints, Champ Cars, Midgets, NASCAR Grand National, Trans-Am, and Baja smack into 20 domestic and international racing Halls of Fame. To offer the fullest historical perspectives as well as deeply personal insights, the book also includes commentary from racing icons such as Mario Andretti, A.J. Foyt, A.J. Watson, Leonard Wood, Al and Bobby Unser, Johnny Rutherford, Walker Evans, Bud Moore, Tony Stewart, and others, as well as Parnelli s own family. Journalist Michael Knight has called this one of the two or three best motorsports books of the last decade; Robin Miller simply called it fantastic.

As a Matter of Fact I Am Parnelli Jones

Parnelli Jones

Bentley Warren s approach to life is mirrored by the tongue-in-cheek slogan of his high-octane watering hole in Maine: Who has more fun than us? We do! Whether mingling with customers at his thriving Bentley s Saloon or catching up with racing friends, Warren s fun-meter is usually pegged. You can find him by following the laughter, or, if you dare, the thunder of his hot-rod Harley. Yet beneath the good-times façade, Bentley s life has been one of focus and accomplishment. An Indianapolis 500 veteran, he is also one of the most decorated short-track drivers of his generation, having won from Massachusetts to Phoenix, and from Canada to South Florida. He s a seven-time champion at New York s Oswego Speedway where he captured the prestigious International Classic on six occasions as well as a four-time series champ with the International Supermodified Association and a six-time winner of New England s premier Supermodified event, the Star Speedway Classic. He was twice victorious in the storied Little 500 for Sprint Cars at Anderson, Indiana. Along the way, he somehow found time to become a self-taught entrepreneur; before the saloon, he built a successful trucking company. WICKED FAST written with Bones Bourcier brings the reader inside Bentley s world.

Wicked Fast: Racing Through Life with Bentley Warren

Bentley Warren

The autobiography of one of Sprint Car racing s most popular and talented racers. Written with award-winning motorsports journalist Bones Bourcier, The People's Champ charts the course of Darland's racing life, from Quarter-Midgets and local Sprint Cars through his remarkable professional career, including championships in all three of USAC's national divisions Silver Crown, Sprint Cars, and Midgets. No mere chronological rehashing of a great driver's climb, Darland discusses the rivalries that helped shape his career, the code of conduct he races by, the magic of his sport s biggest events, and the joys and stresses of being a husband and father in a sport that requires frequent travel and intense focus. The book is illuminated with reflections from eyewitnesses who have seen Darland through the prisms of their own personal and professional relationships, whether as car owner, mechanic, rival driver, or family member. Darland's story is illustrated by dozens of photographs, many previously unpublished.

The People's Champ-A Racing Life

Dave Darland

There has never been a book like this one, a carefully researched and written biography of automobile racing in New England. \n"A History of Auto Racing in New England" celebrates the colorful past of racing cars in the six states on road courses, up mountains, along the ocean¿s beaches, around dirt and paved ovals, and down strips of concrete and asphalt.\nMore than the cars, the book focuses on the people who drove them and those who created the stages on which the drivers exhibited their courage and their skill. The early races that make up much of the book were profoundly dangerous; participation required abnormal courage. As we celebrate the winners, we mourn with the families and friends of those who paid racing¿s ultimate price.\nA few have become wealthy beyond their wildest dreams through New England racing. The majority have participated for the love of going fast, the joy of turning wrenches while looking for more speed or better handling or to hear the cheers of the crowd following a winning Saturday night or Sunday afternoon.\nGo inside this book¿s covers to discover how racing in New England has made so many lives more thrilling and fulfilling ¿ and in ways that could never happen again.

A History of Auto Racing in New England

Lew Boyd

Dick Berggren

Sammy Weisberg

Dick Monahan

North East Motor Sports Museum

Twenty years after they hung up their helmets, their names remain synonymous with the sport they carried to new heights. A.J. Foyt, Mario Andretti, and Richard Petty rose to fame just as the American media print, radio, and, crucially, television began to legitimize auto racing. The timing was perfect. In Foyt, Andretti, and Petty, the nation found characters as compelling as any in sports or entertainment. 
 Foyt was all Texas, John Wayne in a fireproof suit, stomping into Victory Lanes from Indianapolis to Le Mans. Petty, the genial North Carolinian who signed autographs until the last fan went home, put a smiling Andy Griffith face on the American South, no small feat in the tumultuous 60s. Andretti, who d sailed from Italy with his family at age 15, struck for all outsiders the same yes-you-can chord sounded by another Italian-American, the great Frank Sinatra. 
 They crossed paths often, on the track and in the headlines. Take 1967, which opened with Andretti beating NASCAR s best at Daytona, peaked with Foyt s third Indianapolis 500 win, and ended with a record 27 victories for Petty. Or the three-season stretch from 1977-79, during which Foyt became the first four-time Indy winner, Andretti earned the World Driving Championship, and Petty captured a landmark Daytona 500. 
They even throttled back their careers in near-unison, Petty in 1992, Foyt in 93, Andretti in 94. Today all three are revered; as they walk through crowded pit areas, people step back to make way. Charisma never ages.
This is no mere three-act biography. Laced with quotes from first-hand interviews with Foyt, Petty, Andretti, and their peers, and spiced with period accounts from the motorsports world and the changing social landscape, this is award-winning author Bones Bourcier's history of modern American automobile racing as refracted through the lives of three extraordinary champions.

Foyt Andretti Petty-America's Racing Trinity

Rivals, teammates, friends and family members recall one of the Northeast's most popular drivers, whose spectacular Modified career - he won from New England to Florida - was followed by a NASCAR Cup Series victory at Talladega and Rookie of the Year honors at stock car racing's highest level. Contributors include Modified icons Bugs Stevens and George Summers, legendary car owners Bob Johnson and Bob Judkins, NASCAR Cup winners Geoff Bodine and Ricky Rudd, broadcasters Jack Arute and Mike Joy, and many more. All share personal memories of Ronnie B., who had a smile made for victory lane and enough raw talent to get him there.

RON BOUCHARD Remembering the Kid from Fitchburg

Product Description 
In 2011 acclaimed racing journalist Bones Bourcier sat down with Parnelli Jones, the Indy 500 winner often referred to as America s most versatile race driver. It was quite the conversation and resulted in an extraordinary book about an extraordinary man. In As a Matter of Fact I AM Parnelli Jones, Jones and Bourcier track Parnelli's wild years on the infamous California Jalopy circuit and his rise through Sprints, Champ Cars, Midgets, NASCAR Grand National, Trans-Am, and Baja smack into 20 domestic and international racing Halls of Fame. To offer the fullest historical perspectives as well as deeply personal insights, the book also includes commentary from racing icons such as Mario Andretti, A.J. Foyt, A.J. Watson, Leonard Wood, Al and Bobby Unser, Johnny Rutherford, Walker Evans, Bud Moore, Tony Stewart, and others, as well as Parnelli s own family. Journalist Michael Knight has called this one of the two or three best motorsports books of the last decade; Robin Miller simply called it fantastic. 
 About the Author 
Mark Bones Bourcier has covered American automobile racing since 1976, contributing columns and feature stories to a number of magazines and newspapers. Bourcier is a two-time winner of the Miller Racing Award of Excellence, one of motorsports journalism's most coveted annual prizes, and a past recipient of the Eastern Motorsports Press Association's Frank Blunk Memorial Award for outstanding contribution to motorsports journalism. He has co-written acclaimed motorsports autobiographies, including Racing Safely, Living Dangerously with safety innovator Bill Simpson and True Speed: My Racing Life with NASCAR Winston Cup champion Tony Stewart. Coastal 181 publications include Richie!, a biography of the late Richie Evans, nine-time NASCAR Modified Series champion; and Wicked Fast: Racing Through Life with Bentley Warren, among numerous other titles.

As a Matter of Fact I AM Parnelli Jones

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