Books with author Lou Hartman

“What wins on Sunday, sells on Monday” pushed Detroit's Big Four (GM, Ford, Chrysler and AMC) to produce selected factory-built production cars with gutted trim, lightweight frames stuffed with high cubic-inch powerful engines with modified fuel systems. Rivalries quickly flourished as Detroit's finest teams battled out across the country for supremacy. Factory-backed legends Dick Landy, “Dyno” Don Nicholson, Sox & Martin, Bill “Grumpy” Jenkins, Bob Glidden, Wally Booth, Paul Blevins, Richie Zul, Warren Johnson, “Akron” Arlen Vanke, Billy Stepp, Gapp and Roush, Bill Carlton, Butch Leal, and many others from Jr. Stock to the giants of Pro Stock, come alive in this photo gallery of Pro Stock Drag Racing.

Resentful of the minor role he plays in the life of his important, famous Ad father, fourteen-year-old Jonathan runs away while traveling with his parents. He has heard a story that piques his interest and heads for an old house that was once an inn. Welcomed by the elderly proprietor, Jon signs apprentice papers when he is promised that he will inherit the property. He becomes embroiled in old Peter's feud with the neighbors and discovers the answer to the mystery that first brought him to Happiness House. The beginning of the story is not very convincing, the end even less so, but the writing has pace and color, the atmosphere of eerie isolation is vividly evoked, and the story has suspense.