Fuel and Guts – The Birth of Top Fuel Drag Racing by Thomas Madigan

Published by Motorbooks ISBN: 0760326975

This is the story of how top fuel drag racing began. Once a huge industry/sport in the US, it also has a large iconic following in the UK.

Author Madigan, an ‘insider’ from the beginning, tells the story, speaks to those who lived it and draws on interviews with luminaries such as Mickey Thompson, Tony Nancy, Tommy Ivo and Tom McEwen, to name just a few.

Their words, and those of engine builders like Ed Pink and chassis maker, Kent Fuller give readers a real sense of a thrilling world.

This book encapsulates top fuel drag racing of California in the fifties and sixties and ‘fuel and guts’ recreated a time of passion and adrenaline.

The perfect story of a time and excitement now gone forever.