SIGNED "Ray Crawford - Speed Merchant" Andrew Layton Dick Wallen Indy, Carrera

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Ray Crawford
was one of the most versatile racing drivers of the 1950s - maybe ever. Aside from his upset victory in the 1954
Carrera Panamericana's
stock car division, widely considered to be the world's most dangerous and grueling race, he competed passionately in sports cars, championship dirt cars, midgets and unlimited hydroplanes. On three occasions, he qualified for racing's greatest spectacle, the
Indianapolis 500
. But for most of his driving career, Crawford was labeled a dabbling amateur by auto racing's rough-and-tumble "in" crowd. The reason: his family's supermarket empire through which his dreams of speed were financed. Controversial, yet charming and affable on the racetrack, few of Crawford's competitors ever knew that his unbelievable daring was motivated by an equally audacious career as a decorated
P-38 combat ace
and
test pilot
that had turned sour. Drawing on family recollections, interviews with friends and colleagues, as well as Crawford's own, un-published wartime letters - all amplified with over 150 photo selections by legendary auto racing publisher and filmmaker
Dick Wallen
-
Ray Crawford - Speed Merchant
tells the story of one of the most amazing personal journeys you've never heard of.
Title: Ray Crawford - Speed Merchant
Author: Andrew Layton
Retail Price: .99
206 pages
Paper: 100lb Gloss
Dimensions: 8.5x11
Hardcover, Library Binding
Initial Run of 1,000 copies
250+ BW images
Layout/Design by Dick Wallen
Foreward by Alice Hanks - wife of 1957 Indy 500 winner Sam Hanks
Printed by Ben Franklin Press
Bound by Roswell Bookbinding Company
Published by Revolution Press, LLC