Gentlemen's Club

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Gentlemen's Club

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One fateful night in February.....

Sounds like the beginning to a mystery. In fact, it was a February evening, in 1944, when seven well-heeled gentlemen met at a Boston estate. The gentlemen shared not only wealth and privilege, but also a love of driving and owning the specially engineered and built vehicles they called “sports cars”. The group elected officers, drafted a constitution, including strict membership rules designed to invite only their kind into the fold and gave their club a name.

This was the rather staid beginning of the Sports Car Club of America. Although the club was formed more to promote the preservation and restoration of early sports cars than to host racing events, in the ensuing years it would become one of many organizations involved in a turf war. Rules, regulations, and naming rights were just a few of the issues over which such organizations as the SCCA, IMSA and USAC would come to blows.

In “The Gentlemen’s Club”, Pete Hylton traces the evolution of sports car racing from an elite organization for “gentlemen”, to the popular sport of today. The author includes detailed accounts and vintage photos of events, venues and drivers from the 1940’s through the 1980’s and traces the sometimes friendly, sometimes adversarial relationships between the different sanctioning bodies.

The Prophet was one of the top cars in the new Can-Am, here driven by future Indy Car star, Bobby Ra

The Prophet was one of the top cars in the new Can-Am, here driven by future Indy Car star, Bobby Rahal. (From "Gentlemen's Club")

Jim Donnelly, of Hemmings Automotive News, reviewed "Gentlemen's Club:

"In only 160 softbound pages, the author tells a very long history with bright verve, befitting his professorial credentials. All the touchstones are there, plus some unexpectedly nice toppings: a chapter on women in the SCCA, plus normally ingored topics such as Formula B, Formula 5000, and the post-1975 revival of the Can-Am. Inside the pages, additional voices of interpretation come from Bill Milliken, Jouh Bishop and Nick Craw....A lovely, breezy history of manageable size. "

Gentlemen's Club is available now in pre-order for September re-release. Save 40% when you order all three of Pete Hylton's books.