The Speed Merchants Collection — The Book
By Michael Keyser, Bill Ourslerand Balfour Walker
About a year ago we reviewed Keyser’s four-disc collection of digital racing images from the ’70s and ’80s, and now, much like a case of time-warp déjà vu, here they come again in 363 pages of ink-on-paper form. Depending on your personal predilection, this may be a more user-friendly format, as you can stretch out on the couch and thumb leisurely through the collection.
Turning from page to page, you’ll no doubt often think, “I remember that car,” and thus be carried back in time to your memories of the occasion. As with the disc, these photos depict cars from the Can-Am and Trans-Am, IMSA GT and GTP, World Sports Cars, Formula 1 and Formula 5000, as well as IROC and Le Mans, both active and static, along with candid snaps of familiar players. Accompanying each image is a descriptive caption in the best Jack Webb Sergeant Friday style, “just the facts,” and perhaps my favorite image is one of Parnelli Jones in his Mustang, crossed up in a wet St. Jovite pit lane, heading directly toward car owner Bud Moore, who’s holding a pit board reading: “Jones-Pit-Slick.”
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