Dyno Don: The Cars and Career of Dyno Don Nicholson
Nicholson's first wins on a national level were actually in the early 1960s in Chevrolet products. He became extremely successful on the match-race circuit. Then in 1964 he switched over to Mercury with the new Comet after General Motors enacted a factory ban on racing activities. He won 90 percent of his match races that year. He stuck with Ford and Mercury products and won throughout the 1960s and 1970s even after Ford also pulled the plug on factory team sponsorship. He made it to the final rounds in nearly 50 national events during that period in addition to winning championships awards and match races along the way.
Drivers often became associated with a particular manufacturer such as Chevy Ford or Chrysler through sponsorship factory team rides or sometimes simply their own preference. The more successful drivers became household names in the drag racing community. Chevy had Grumpy Jenkins Pontiac had Arnie the Farmer Beswick Mopar had Sox & Martin and Dandy Dick Landy and Ford's most successful driver of the era was the legendary Dyno Don Nicholson.
If you are a fan of a certain era of racing a Ford fan or certainly a Dyno Don fan this book will be a welcome addition to your library.
Features
- 176 pages
- 194 color and 136 B/W photos
- Softcover
- Book dimensions are 8.5 x 11
Nicholson's first wins on a national level were actually in the early 1960s in Chevrolet products. He became extremely successful on the match-race circuit. Then in 1964 he switched over to Mercury with the new Comet after General Motors enacted a factory ban on racing activities. He won 90 percent of his match races that year. He stuck with Ford and Mercury products and won throughout the 1960s and 1970s even after Ford also pulled the plug on factory team sponsorship. He made it to the final rounds in nearly 50 national events during that period in addition to winning championships awards and match races along the way.
Drivers often became associated with a particular manufacturer such as Chevy Ford or Chrysler through sponsorship factory team rides or sometimes simply their own preference. The more successful drivers became household names in the drag racing community. Chevy had Grumpy Jenkins Pontiac had Arnie the Farmer Beswick Mopar had Sox & Martin and Dandy Dick Landy and Ford's most successful driver of the era was the legendary Dyno Don Nicholson.
If you are a fan of a certain era of racing a Ford fan or certainly a Dyno Don fan this book will be a welcome addition to your library.
