Greg Moore
Autor de Bud Moore's Right Hand Man: A NASCAR Team Manager's Career at Full Throttle
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Bud Moore's Right Hand Man: A NASCAR Team… por Greg Moore
Received this book through Early Review. I handed it to my husband and never saw it again. But, I definitely had to hear about it. He loved the book, and had to share many of the stories in it with me. My husband maybe reads one book a year, and this was it. He loved it and finished it in record time! He then passed it on to another 'car guy'.
Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing.I never finished book, not really into Nascar.
Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing.BUD MOORE’S RIGHT HAND MAN
By Greg Moore with Perry Wood
NASCAR? Good ol’ boys? Fine-tuning engines beyond belief? But, I must tell you, this book is a kick and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Yes, the one failing is its lack of coherent organization; a reader struggles to put events in chronological order from time to time, but, overlooking that, the author, a famed NASCAR team manager, along with occasional input from another NASCAR maven, Perry Wood, lets the reader see behind the scenes of the drama of NASCAR, from almost its inception in the early 1960’s, when racers were thrilled to win $10,000, to today, when millions of dollars are paid, won, lost, and wept over in a billion-dollar business.
The author, Greg Moore, peppers his narrative with vignettes of famous NASCAR racers, from Junior Johnson (yes, I read Tom Wolfe’s “Junior Johnson, the Last American Hero. Yes.”) to Dale Earnhardt, and all the luminaries in between. Despite his rubbing elbows with and working and racing with all the movers and shakers in the racing community, Moore maintains a down-home, straight-talking, humorous voice that makes the reader feel as if he knows him personally. Loyal, hard-working, and definitely innovative, Moore writes about his experiences as his famous NASCAR Hall of Fame father, Bud Moore’s, right-hand man and pulls the reader right onto the shop floor and onto the track and behind the scenes with all the colorful characters.
The details of each engine breakdown and refining are mind-boggling, as the author shares each story, such as this one on cylinder heads. “I said…’Something’s going on with these d*** heads. I’m seeing something. You couldn’t measure it. I always walked around with a dial, an indicator measuring stuff. I’d change valve seat angles one degree, even half a degree. You do something like that and it might mean 20 horsepower in the motor. The motors were getting that refined. That’s the trouble they have with them now. It’s like you breathe on a cylinder head and you lose 20 horsepower. I’ll bet you’re talking about $100,000 in cylinder heads of different configurations of the same design. Nobody had a handle on it, and this was the trick to the whole thing.” Needless to say, with a different manifold, changing the pistons around, and “stuck some other goodies on it,” Greg Moore ensured it would really run – and it did.
Any NASCAR fan or Formula One fan, or anyone who enjoys a straight-talking autobiography of a person who achieved great things behind the scenes and a reader who enjoys colorful stories of a different time and place – the heart of NASCAR in the South – will appreciate this book.… (más)
By Greg Moore with Perry Wood
NASCAR? Good ol’ boys? Fine-tuning engines beyond belief? But, I must tell you, this book is a kick and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Yes, the one failing is its lack of coherent organization; a reader struggles to put events in chronological order from time to time, but, overlooking that, the author, a famed NASCAR team manager, along with occasional input from another NASCAR maven, Perry Wood, lets the reader see behind the scenes of the drama of NASCAR, from almost its inception in the early 1960’s, when racers were thrilled to win $10,000, to today, when millions of dollars are paid, won, lost, and wept over in a billion-dollar business.
The author, Greg Moore, peppers his narrative with vignettes of famous NASCAR racers, from Junior Johnson (yes, I read Tom Wolfe’s “Junior Johnson, the Last American Hero. Yes.”) to Dale Earnhardt, and all the luminaries in between. Despite his rubbing elbows with and working and racing with all the movers and shakers in the racing community, Moore maintains a down-home, straight-talking, humorous voice that makes the reader feel as if he knows him personally. Loyal, hard-working, and definitely innovative, Moore writes about his experiences as his famous NASCAR Hall of Fame father, Bud Moore’s, right-hand man and pulls the reader right onto the shop floor and onto the track and behind the scenes with all the colorful characters.
The details of each engine breakdown and refining are mind-boggling, as the author shares each story, such as this one on cylinder heads. “I said…’Something’s going on with these d*** heads. I’m seeing something. You couldn’t measure it. I always walked around with a dial, an indicator measuring stuff. I’d change valve seat angles one degree, even half a degree. You do something like that and it might mean 20 horsepower in the motor. The motors were getting that refined. That’s the trouble they have with them now. It’s like you breathe on a cylinder head and you lose 20 horsepower. I’ll bet you’re talking about $100,000 in cylinder heads of different configurations of the same design. Nobody had a handle on it, and this was the trick to the whole thing.” Needless to say, with a different manifold, changing the pistons around, and “stuck some other goodies on it,” Greg Moore ensured it would really run – and it did.
Any NASCAR fan or Formula One fan, or anyone who enjoys a straight-talking autobiography of a person who achieved great things behind the scenes and a reader who enjoys colorful stories of a different time and place – the heart of NASCAR in the South – will appreciate this book.… (más)
Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing.The book starts out slow but picks up after a few chapters. If you love NASCAR, you will love this book with its behind the scenes look at the sport.
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 8
- Miembros
- 34
- Popularidad
- #413,653
- Valoración
- 3.3
- Reseñas
- 7
- ISBNs
- 12
