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Harrell Engines & Racing Equipment: Jim (White) Harrell & Nick Harrell

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Product Description: This book describes the forty year journey through hot rodding taken by Jim (White) Harrell & Nick Harrell. Jim’s career in building race cars takes us through some of the most interesting times in land racing. It started in the early 1930s with Jim and his Speed Shop in Los Angeles building and racing 4-cylinder Chevy and Ford engines; he was among the first to move into 8-cylinder engines with his record-breaking Hudson straight eight at the dry lakes; it wasn’t long before he was also setting records in his V-8 Ford and Mercury engines; and finally, by 1960, he was moving into the OHV V-8 engines to set new records at the drag strips in Roadster and Altered Roadster classes. During WW II, Jim was joined by his brother, Nick, in Harrell Engines for 25 years of hot rodding. To this day, Nick is remembered fondly by those who knew him. This volume with the aid of some 50 photos and images spanning four decades briefly describes Jim and Nick Harrell’s hot rodding lives and their legacy.

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A Nostalgic Look Back
Reviewer: B. (Southern California), Date of review: June 15, 2009
Avg. Customer Rating: 5 Stars
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
The Harrell Engines book is a nostalgic look back on the pioneers of the sport of racing. This book starts with the "roots" of racing and how drag racing grew. The book explains the connection between the Harrell brothers and the young racers. The magic came with their engine building. The "need for speed" was the mantra of every racer that "hung out" at the Harrell shop where the exchange of ideas and experiments would take place. In so many words this shop-talk was the meeting of the "hot rod" minds. The book gave me a blizzard of memories. The Harrell brothers were in a sense true alchemists when it came to racing engines. They like so many of the drag racing pioneers, took the dream of drag racing to a whole new level and made the sport of drag racing the spectacle it is today. I highly recommend this book!