The World's Number One, Flat-Out, All-Time Great Stock Car Racing Book


The World's Number One, Flat-Out, All-Time Great Stock Car Racing Book is a non-fiction book on early stock car racing published in 1975 by Doubleday.
The book revolves around the 1972 Southern 500 weekend at Darlington Raceway in Darlington, SC, with historical pieces and driver interviews in between.
In the 20th Anniversary Edition introduction, Bledsoe notes that the first edition barely sold enough to cover the publishing and marketing costs. "Well, it was well received by critics," Bledsoe states, "several of whom said it lived up to its title. A couple called it a classic work on the subject, and to be a classic, it has to stay around, right?" Bledsoe put out the anniversary edition in 1995, published by Down Home Press.
The book features drivers Ethel Flock, Tim Flock, Friday Hassler, Junior Johnson, David Pearson, Richard Petty, Billy Scott, Wendell Scott and Larry Smith, as well as Bill Frazier, Richard Howard and Ken Squier.

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