Ray Abrams of A&A Racing in San Carlos, California is “the man behind the curtain”. Ray’s shop has supported a long list of Grand National riding stars and champions over many years. The list reads like a veritable who’s who of the sport.
I recently came upon a fantastic story about an American car rescue. The saying “barn find” has no better example than this “Fronty Ford”, found while this bloke was sorting through some bits searching for Model A wheels.
When Joe started car racing in the late fifties he wasn’t sure what he wanted to drive, but wanted to drive everything he could find.
Al Rudy had a short but remarkable motorcycle racing career in the late 1940′s and 50’s. He had all the elements to be one of the great ones. Lorin Guy tells his story.
Joe Leonard is the only American racer to win national championships in both motorcycle and automobile racing and the only one in the world to do both back to back. In part one, we take a look at Joe’s early days in motorcycle racing.
In the late 1940’s and early 1950’s one man dominated the motorcycle racing scene in the United States and never took a lap. Tom Sifton had an uncanny ability for recognizing talent and recruited riders like Sam Arena, Bob Chaves, Al Rudy and Joe Leonard to help win championships
