CT990 - Diggers, Funnies, Gassers & Altereds- A History Of the Golden Age Of Drag Racing - 1965-1980

Foreword by John Force, 12-time NHRA Funny Car season points champion.

Bob McClurg has been involved with cars ever since he knew what they were.As a kid he hung around at a barber shop in Orange, Calif.that had all the hot rod-type magazines an 8- to 10-year-old kid could read.Across the street was a used car lot which was usually full of Chevrolets, and on a good day even a Corvette or two. Next door was a shop owned by Jack Hart, who later became the National Hot Rod Association's first Competition Director. McClurg spent as much time there as he could, & Jack always took the time to answer his many questions. In 1963 McClurg attended his first drag race at Lions Drag Strip. In 1964, he snuck onto the starting line at the National Hot Rod Association Winternationals and took his first drag racing photos and was hooked. He started working for the Orange Daily News, and then for the Anaheim Bulletin, as a sports photographer and refined his skills as a high-speed automotive photographer on weekends at drag races. He later worked for Super Stock magazine, the Los Angeles Times, and in 1978 went to work as photo editor for Hot Rod Magazine.In 1983 he became editor of Hot Rod Corvette and Kit Car magazines. He left in 1986 to work as editor of Mustang Illustrated Magazine for 14 years, during which time he also created Ford High-Performance Magazine. McClurg left the company in 1998 and continues to work as a successful freelance photographer. Diggers, Funnies, Gassers and Altereds is McClurg's fifth book.