Peffer leigh davis (1 risultati)
[An astonishing photograph and ephemera archive capturing the glory and history of open-wheel Formula & midget car racing, sports car racing, and vintage sports car racing on the West Coast, primarily in Southern California, as well as post-War racing in England. The 416 photographs document the racers, race cars, speedways including the legendary and treacherous Legion Ascot Speedway in Los Angeles, as well as custom and hot rod car culture, car building and restoration, and even includes a scale model built by Gene Sherman of the famed So-Cal Speed Shop streamliner which blew away the competition at the first Bonneville Nationals in 1949].
[AUTOMOBILE RACING ARCHIVE -- CALIFORNIA]. [SHERMAN, Eugene "Gene; PEFFER, Leigh Davis; & CUNNINGHAM, Briggs].
Editore: Gene Sherman, Leigh Peffer, Briggs Cunningham, Briggs Cunningham Museum, Ted Wilson, et al, ca. 1900-1990]., [Los Angeles, Costa Mesa, Huntington Beach, Fullerton, San Jose, Hollywood, CA:, 1900
- Brossura
Da: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.Zephyr Used & Rare Books
Contatta il venditoreVenditore con 5 stelleCondizione: Usato
EUR 7559,24
EUR 6,91 spedizioneSpedito in U.S.A.Quantità: 1 disponibili
Aggiungi al carrelloFive Vols. & 1 scale model. First four vols. are 4to. [82; 76; 64; 88 leaves (all unnumbered).], archival mylar sleeves holding 266 photographs, sized from 4 x 5 in. up to 8.5 x 11 in., with over 90% sized 8 x 10 in., most are black & white silver gelatin, nearly all w/ photographer's imprint either within the negative, or stamp…ed on verso, many w/ pencil & ink, manuscript annotations on versos (most in the bold hand of Leigh Peffer, but also many w/ markings by Gene Sherman, and a couple possibly Briggs Cunningham), several colour negatives, many colour photographs, some studio, others snapshot, a couple 1944 Kodacolor shops of young Peffer in US Army uniform during World War II, together with over 100 pieces of ephemera including racing forms, postcards, art brochures, promotional materials, Midget Car racing rules, Auto and racing promotional packets, ALS & TLS, many on letterhead, and more. Three of these 4 vols. with archival mylar sleeves held in 3-ring binders in gray and black cloth, 4th vol. a flexible plastic portfolio, archival mylar sleeves, printed label at spine; Together with: Peffer's "A Scrap Book of Motor Sports History. . . Peffer Collection" a Oblong folio. 13.5 x 10.5 scrapbook/photo album. [80 pp (unpaginated).] on thick tan paper, with 150 original photographs tipped-in with corners, and mounted, including 12 original colour negatives, many identfied, additional ephemera either mounted, or laid-in, two colour slides, several clippings laid-in at rear, and mimeographed sales list. Contemporary blue board post-binder, nickel-plated screw posts at gutter margin, printed metallic gold label mounted front cover, neat manuscript hand of Peffer on label front cover (occasional edgewear, toning to clippings), still VG exemplar; Scale model 12 x 4 x 2.5 in. of the So-Cal Streamline racer by Gene Sherman, rubber tires, leather fittings for cock-pit, painted as the original, preserved in chamois bag, NF exemplar, all from the libraries of Leigh Peffer, and Gene Sherman. This noteworthy and expansive archive captures the glories of automobile sporting culture in California during the first several decades of the 20th-Century, assembled through the effort and passion by several significant figures in the auto-racing, and sports car scene of Southern California. These include Gene Sherman (1944-2007) famed auto designer and builder, Leigh Peffer (1918-2000) auto racing enthusiast, sports car racer and collector, and photographer, Briggs Cunningham (1907-2003) famed American sportsman whose Cunningham Motors fielded race teams and built race cars for the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and later the Briggs Cunningham Automotive Museum in Coasta Mesa, CA which operated from 1966-1987, and finally the racing photographs of Ted Wilson famed photographer of California auto racing and race tracks during the 1920's and 1930's. Amidst the hundreds of photographs, many pieces of ephemera, race programs, original letters and postcards, the joy and energy of the West Coast automobile culture trace the development of automobile manufacturing and racing from the Hodge Brothers electric car manufacturing in Pasadena, CA in 1900-1902 through the design and model building, and car museums in the 1980's. Peffer & Sherman sorted the photo collection into race car drivers, action shots, and miscellaneous which includes photographs from Ted Wilson, Doinseau-Rapho, Briggs Cunningham Museum, Strother MacMinn, Thomas Milana, Studebaker, Ford, D.M. Woodhouse of San Diego, as well as Peffer, and Sherman themselves. The photographs include those of Carroll Shelby driving one of his early Cobra prototypes, Rex Mays, Dan DePaolao, Stubby Stubelfield, Bill Schuffler, Johnny Parsons, Bill Stepp, Earl Mansell, and Louis Meyer, Jr. "Sonny" one of the most successful and accomplished engine builders in Indianapolis 500 history. Still others include veterans of the vaunted Legion Ascot race track in Los Angeles, known as the "Killer Track" with such drivers as H.