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| Out of the love for his
grandfather, Mike Dreyer wrote this biography on Floyd
"Pop" Dreyer. He researched to see if the
stories about his grandfather were true or just exaggerations.
He found out many stories were understated. |
| Floyd Dreyer was inducted
into Knoxville's National Sprint Car hall of Fame and
Indianapolis' National Midget Hall of Fame. |
| From the humble beginnings
of his life in rural Ohio, through his young manhood
and his all-out effort to become a famous motorcycle
racer, all the way to his days as one of the nation's
premier race car builders and a successful business
entrepreneur, Mike Dreyer tells the story of his grandfather
Floyd "Pop" Dreyer's colorful, adventuresome
life. |
| Written from Pop's perspective,
this story gives you the feeling of really being there
as it happened. See how the youngster transferred his
ideal of becoming a rodeo cowboy from horseback to a
motorcycle, when he rides his brother's cycle for the
first time. You'll learn the heartaches he faced as
a young father trying to raise children alone. |
| The events that spurred
him to leave Ohio, as well as how he landed, quite by
accident, in Indianapolis, are fully detailed. You'll
come to know his every trick of riding the fast and
deadly motorcycles, where he excelled and earned his
first racing fame. |
| You'll meet his friends,
rivals, mechanics and hustling promoters. Follow with
amazemant his cutting edge expertise as a racing car
builder and fabricator. Read how he was one of the last
sprint car owners to build his own machine, engine and
all, from the ground up. |
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| Discover the amazing facts and
many outstanding breakthroughs in racing technology pioneered
by Pop's small Dreyer Racing Equipment Company, which caused
builders like Frank Kurtis to look upon him with awe and admiration. |
| You'll come to know some of his
drivers. How they lived and drove with such daring and skill,
at a time when death was lurking behind every splintered fence,
around every dusty curve. |
| Come to understand why Pop finally
got out of racing to become one of the Midwest's most successful
seller of motorcycles. And how his mechanical ability and
fabrication techniques changed what motorcyclists ride today. |
| See how the youngster transferred
his ideal of becoming a rodeo cowboy from horseback to a motorcycle,
when he rides his brother's cycle for the first time. Get
set for a thrilling ride from start to finish. This is the
real story on Pop Dreyer from the guy who loved it, as ably
retold by one who knew him best. |
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