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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Charters, David A. (David Anderson), 1949-     Subjects     Canadian Automobile Sport Clubs -- History.     Sports car racing -- Canada -- History.     Sports car events -- Canada -- History.     Automobile racing -- Canada -- History.     Automobile rallies -- Canada -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Charters, David A. (David Anderson), 1949-       by title:      The chequered past :...       by call number:      796.720971 C486c     Search the Web     Charters, David A. (David Anderson), 1949-     Canadian Automobile Sport Clubs -- History.     Sports car racing -- Canada -- History.     Sports car events -- Canada -- History.     Automobile racing -- Canada -- History.     Automobile rallies -- Canada -- History.       MARC Display

The chequered past : sports car racing and rallying in Canada, 1951-1991 / David A. Charters. by Charters, David A. (David Anderson), 1949- University of Toronto Press, c2007. Call #: 796.720971 C486c Subjects Canadian Automobile Sport Clubs -- History.   Sports car racing -- Canada -- History.   Sports car events -- Canada -- History.   Automobile racing -- Canada -- History.   Automobile rallies -- Canada -- History. ISBN:  9780802090935 (bound : acid-free paper) 0802090931 (bound : acid-free paper) 9780802093943 (pbk. : acid-free paper) 0802093949 (pbk. : acid-free paper) Description:  xv, 348 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-320) and index. Contents:  1: The amateur age, 1951-1960 -- The visionaries and their vision: the founding of the Canadian automobile sports clubs -- Canadian club: origins of the sports car subculture, 1950-1960 -- Run what ya brung: sports car competition in the amateur age -- Rules and regs: professionalizing the amateurs -- Powershift: the rise of commercial professionalism -- 2: Gathering speed, 1961-1966 -- Behind the wheel: power politics in the CASC -- Trans-Canada: the shell 4000 and the national rally championship, 1961-1966 -- Making tracks: commercializing Canadian racing -- Reach for the top: Canadian racing driver development in the 1960s -- The cutting edge: Bill Sadler and the Can-Am series -- 3: From sport to spectacle, 1967-1991 -- Coming of age? Canadians and international racing -- Winning formula: formula racing and the national championship -- Stage by stage: transforming the national rally championship -- Downshift: the crisis in amateur auto sport, 1969-1975 -- Final laps: the decline and fall of the CASC. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Local History Collection 796.720971 C486c Non-circulating Local History Room - Central Library, 4th Floor Add Copy to MyList

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