In his first season of stock car racing, a young man is caught up in the deadly rivalry between his father and the father of the girl he loves, both in their last season of racing.
After his first taste of automobile racing, a college freshman keeps going back for more despite--or perhaps because of--family tragedy, his desire to stay in school, and periods of bad luck.
A college senior determines to master the powerful Spanish Acuna motorcycles and participate in the all-day motocross races through Death Valley and Baja California.
Not yet ready for the college routine, Carl Donavan becomes involved with motorcycle racing only to realize that he is on the same self-destruct track that killed his father.
The life of a Chicano high school dropout in trouble with the law takes a turn for the better when the tennis pro at the country club takes him into his home and begins coaching him for tournament play.
Have you ever had questions about events in some ones life that affected you and you never ask? As we, Mariette and I were returning home from PA one evening and we had visited Barbara Bunting on the old farm, I ask Sis (that's what we call Mariette) "how did Dad find that farm". This 300 acre farm was in the middle of no where, about halfway between Springboro and Albion in rural PA. Sis, being the oldest of us 5 kids, surly would know about the move but she didn't. Another thing I had questions about was Mother and Dads meeting and their courtship in California where they were married. Again she had no idea. As you know, being young children, you were never interest in stuff like that and later you had your own group of friends and still not interested. Then you meet the love of your life and nothing else was important to you. Then kids, job and married life and time slips by and then you lose one parent and a short time later both are gone. They took all the life experiences and stories with them. I had questions for my Father and Mother that can never be answered by them so I have decided to write this book. Have my children ask me those questions, no. Do they want to sit and listen to me tell them my life's stories, no. Will they have questions when we are gone, most likely!
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