We Were the Ramchargers: Inside Drag Racing's Legendary Team Review

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(More customer reviews)I was a car nut and amateur drag racer in the late '60s - early '70s, and I was also a MoPar guy, so the Ramchargers, along with Sox & Martin and Dick Landy, were my heroes. I followed them in NHRA's "National Dragster" newspaper and all the car magazines, watched them on ABC's "Wide World of Sports," and even saw them run in person a couple of times (I lived a long way from their base of operations, and we seldom ventured into each other's parts of the world). So, as an old racer and a collector of Chrysler racing memorabilia, I had to have this book. It is beyond my expectations. Not only is it a very personal and detailed account of the Ramchargers car club, its cars, its members and their racing efforts, but it starts with a good account of Chrysler Corporation history, leading up to the formation of the Ramchargers in the '50s and the "golden age" of Chrysler drag racing, which ran roughly from 1962 to 1974. I had not realized how much the Ramchargers were actually responsible for Chrysler's "golden age" and for much else that is now taken for granted in drag racing. If you're an old Ramchargers fan, a MoPar drag racer, a Chrysler Corp. or drag racing history buff, someone nostalgic for the '60s, or a modern-day racer who would just like to know where it all came from, this book is a great read, and it's also full of photos of the men, their machines, and some legendary races.

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This book takes you behind the scenes with the group of Chrysler engineers who, from the 1950s through the 1970s, became one of the most successful and influential drag racing teams of all time. The only team of engineers from an automobile manufacturer to drag race successfully, the Ramchargers broke the most time barriers in drag racing history and earned the most National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) Super Stock titles during the sport's golden era of factory competition.

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