[Fot] Fast Guy's Rich Guy's & Idiots by Sam Moses

[Ted Schumacher]

FOT members, several people have inquired about this book. Her is a copy 
of my original posting. Obviously the Christmas gift reference is well 
past but everything else is correct. Thanks for your time. Ted

Greetings FOT list community. Here is a Christmas gift idea that also 
benefits FOT. A friend of mine, Sam Moses, wrote a book in 1986 called 
"Fast Guys, Rich Guys and Idiots". A chronicle of Sam's racing season. 
Sam was the motor sports editor for Sports Illustrated. Later on he 
became associate editor of AutoWeek. "Fast Guys" was sold out in 9 
months and not reprinted. Sam has reprinted his book. The book sells for 
$21.95. But, Sam personalized a group of books for us. These are selling 
for $24.95 each. Postage approximately $4.75 by priority mail and should 
reach you in time for Christmas. $3 from each sale will go to the FOT 
coffers. Buy early, buy often. The following writeup sums up the book 
very well. I read the book in 1986 when it first came out and liked what 
I saw about Sam's competitive attitude. A phone call to Sam and 2 months 
later, he and I won a 24 hour showroom stock race. The write-up below is 
from the publisher. Thanks for your time. Ted

Sam Moses, a motorsports writer for Sports Illustrated, was assigned to 
go racing and write about what happened. Fast Guys, Rich Guys, and 
Idiots is a personal odyssey that peers over the cliff of change and 
into the pit of obsession. From small-time races to glittery grands 
prix, it lays bare the greed, lust, and desperation of every driver for 
time behind the wheel and a faster car. It explains the perfectionism 
behind taking a turn at the limit and describes the intoxicating thrill 
of stealing down the Daytona backstraight at nearly two hundred miles an 
hour.

The core of Mose's story takes place in the heartland of stock car 
racing, there he finds a spot on a team in Ether, North Carolina. The 
team's owner is a tough Louisiana oil man, its crew chief a lanky, 
laconic Texan, and its number-one driver a hairy-chested leadfoot who 
learned fast driving on backwoods Georgia roads, delivering beauty 
supplies in his Mustang. Crashes echo throughout the tale that follows, 
five of them the author's own.

Sam Moses was a staff writer for Sports Illustrated for seventeen years 
on the motorsports beat. He worked as deputy editor at AutoWeek and 
received automotive journalisms prestigious Ken Purdy Award. He is the 
author of At All Costs: How a Crippled Ship and Two American Merchant 
Mariners Reversed the Tide of World War II.

A candid, often hilarious account of [Mosess] experiences on the 
tracks, in the garages and in the gasoline alleys of the racing 
worldbut especially memorable is the wild variety of characters Moses 
met along the way. The book might have been written twenty years ago, 
but racing is still populated by fast guys, rich guys, and 
idiots.Brock Yates, Wall Street Journal


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Ted Schumacher
tedtsimx at bright.net
http://www.tsimportedautomotive.com

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Ted Schumacher
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