{"id":27682,"date":"2012-06-01T05:00:47","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T12:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=27682"},"modified":"2024-01-04T22:03:29","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T22:03:29","slug":"product-reviews-june-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/product-reviews-june-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"[Book Review] Frank Lockhart: American Speed King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<h2>Frank Lockhart: American Speed King<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/PR201206-p3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/PR201206-p3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"702\" height=\"590\" \/><\/a>By James O\u2019Keefe and Sarah Morgan-Wu<\/h3>\n<p>Frank Lockhart is a classic example of a racing driver taken too soon, as his meteoric rise to fame was cut short as he tried to do even more. Barely 25 pages of text are needed to tell the tale of this American racing legend\u2019s truncated life, so the heart of this exhaustively researched 256-page inaugural volume in the \u201cAmerican Racing History Series\u201d from Boston-based Racemaker Press is its excellent photography from the Roaring Twenties, a time when America\u2019s fascination with the automobile and the finding of its limits flourished.<\/p>\n<p>Also here are Lockhart\u2019s complete racing record, a chronicle of his Land Speed Record attempts and details of his most famous machines\u2014including the Stutz Black Hawk that carried him to his fate on the sands of Daytona Beach. Perhaps Lockhart\u2019s genius is best represented in the extensive Appendices, where factual evidence surrounding his accomplishments, his demise and his legacy is presented.<\/p>\n<p>The authors note that their task included validating or disproving the many myths that sprang up around Lockhart\u2019s fleeting flash of fame, and they appear to have done a remarkably complete job.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Available for US$75.00 from enthusiast bookstores or direct from publisher Racemaker at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racemaker.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.racemaker.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Lockhart: American Speed King By James O\u2019Keefe and Sarah Morgan-Wu Frank Lockhart is a classic example of a racing driver taken too soon, as his meteoric rise to fame was cut short as he tried to do even more. Barely 25 pages of text are needed to tell the tale of this American racing legend\u2019s truncated life, so the heart of this exhaustively researched 256-page inaugural volume in the \u201cAmerican Racing History Series\u201d from Boston-based Racemaker Press is its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":538919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263,11339],"tags":[2942,17152,17940,3297],"class_list":["post-27682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car-culture","category-product","tag-car-books","tag-car-culture","tag-product-reviews","tag-products"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>[Book Review] Frank Lockhart: American Speed King<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Product Reviews 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