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The Speed Merchants Collection\u00a0 \u2014 The Book<\/h2>\n

By Michael Keyser, Bill Ourslerand Balfour Walker<\/h3>\n

About a year ago we reviewed Keyser\u2019s four-disc collection of digital racing images from the \u201970s and \u201980s, and now, much like a case of time-warp d\u00e9j\u00e0 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.<\/p>\n

Turning from page to page, you\u2019ll no doubt often think, \u201cI remember that car,\u201d 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, \u201cjust the facts,\u201d 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\u2019s holding a pit board reading: \u201cJones-Pit-Slick.\u201d<\/p>\n

Available for $79.95 from Autosports Marketing Associates (410) 785-2639 or visit www.autosportsltd.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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