Check out Pete’s column in our newsletter, “Motorsports Racing Legacies“, where he talks about his trip in December to Iowa to help that SCCA Region kick off their 50th anniversary year. While there, he took a sidetrip to Vichy (wow, what a sidetrip), Missouri (not France!) where he found good wine…and another Ghost Track in [...]
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Posted in Cars, History, Pete Hylton, SCCA, porsche, tagged Flickr Tags:ghost tracks, Pete Hylton, Porsche 356, racing history, SCCA, sports car racing, vintage racing on February 7, 2008 | No Comments »
Ghost Tracks is not only a look at race tracks, but at cars and characters. That’s what Gordan Maltby of Porsche 356 Registry. Here is the complete review.
Ghost Tracks is a fascinating look not only at the venues, but the cars and characters that made up early SCCA racing across this country. Pete Hylton weaves [...]
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The sports car racing season is winding down…at least for this year. But even though your friends can’t be at the races for a few months, they can visit the tracks. The Ghost Tracks, that is. Let them settle down in their favorite easy chair with Pete Hylton’s “Ghost Tracks” to take a trans continental [...]
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I am an educated person with an above average ability to grasp new information. (Except for my cell phone. And that is why I have a teen age daughter.) In my career, I have written and edited publications for hospitals, steel mills, law enforcement, the military, engineering, education…well, you get the picture. When my partner [...]
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That’s what 41-year SCCA veteran writes about “Ghost Tracks”. Check out the the rest of his comments…and those of many other readers here.
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Picked up the finished book yesterday. Shelley set up a marathon signing session in Brownsville with Pete. We will ship all the pre-orders today and Friday. So watch the mail for your copy.
We drove up in two separate vehicles to get the books. With everyone waiting for delivery, we didn’t want to wait for trucking. [...]
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You can order Ghost Tracks at http://www.legacyinkpublishing.com/. We use PayPal, so you can pay by check or credit card. For those of you who prefer mail order, email us at information@legacyinkpublishing for mail order instructions.
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Posted in Books, Cars, History, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Turnpike, Pete Hylton, Race Tracks, Road Racing, SCCA, Sports Cars, Vintage cars on July 19, 2007 | No Comments »
In “Ghost Tracks”, Pete Hylton’s gives the history of renown and little-known race courses. There are names familiar to most sports car drivers, including Mid America Raceway, Marlboro, Meadowlands and Brooklands. But did you know that there was once a race scheduled on the Pennsylvania Turnpike? In his book, Hylton recalls racing legen Bill Milliken’s determined effort [...]
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“They were once the asphalt playgrounds of race car drivers, echoing with the roar of engines and the squeal of skinny bias-ply tires. The paddocks were filled with gentleman racers tinkering on Ferraris, OSCAs, bathtub Porsches and Coopers. Now, they sit silent and the engines scream only in memories.
They are the ghost tracks of SCCA’s [...]
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Why do you think this history is important to today’s drivers?
I find that the newest generation of both drivers and motorsports fans have very little idea of what racing was like in its earlier days. It isn’t that they are not interested. Quite the contrary, they seem to be avid readers of my articles, and [...]
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