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Tall Tales from Pikes Peak: Mostly True Stories of Hill Climb Racing

Lisa Haight

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Description:It was natural for the Cascade author to pen a history called "Tall Tales from Pikes Peak: Mostly True Stories of Hill Climb Racing."Haight is the daughter of Colorado Springs Sports Hall of Fame member Nick Sanborn, a Broadmoor Pikes Peak International Hill Climb icon.She grew up around the Hill Climb and heard tales from her father and his friends. The history of the climb is well documented by Stanley L. DeGeer up to the late 1990s.After her father's death in 1999, Haight realized those fun stories were disappearing and needed to be documented in her 38-page book.The 2012 publication, available through the Pikes Peak Library District, opens with a first-person account of Mike Ryan's memorable 2002 crash at the finish line. He avoided killing a spectator by rolling his semi truck cab over the hill climb's timing equipment."Ten years later people still accuse me of doing the 'stunt' on purpose," he wrote. "If they could have seen the look that Molly (Morter) and the rest of the racers gave me as they caravanned down the hill, they would know it was just me, being dumb-assed me."While the first-person accounts show the personalities, Haight also wrote about oft-overlooked pioneers, including the first female motorcycle competitor, Annie Brokaw, and the first woman to race a car; Joyce Thompson of Woodland Park.Some stories did not make the book. Of those, her favorite is about her father cooking a roast on his car's engine block as he raced up the mountain."There are just so many about so many others, I had to leave that one out," she said.The book is an extension of her volunteer work with the Pikes Peak Hill Climb Historical AssociationWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Tall Tales from Pikes Peak: Mostly True Stories of Hill Climb Racing. To get started finding Tall Tales from Pikes Peak: Mostly True Stories of Hill Climb Racing, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: It was natural for the Cascade author to pen a history called "Tall Tales from Pikes Peak: Mostly True Stories of Hill Climb Racing."Haight is the daughter of Colorado Springs Sports Hall of Fame member Nick Sanborn, a Broadmoor Pikes Peak International Hill Climb icon.She grew up around the Hill Climb and heard tales from her father and his friends. The history of the climb is well documented by Stanley L. DeGeer up to the late 1990s.After her father's death in 1999, Haight realized those fun stories were disappearing and needed to be documented in her 38-page book.The 2012 publication, available through the Pikes Peak Library District, opens with a first-person account of Mike Ryan's memorable 2002 crash at the finish line. He avoided killing a spectator by rolling his semi truck cab over the hill climb's timing equipment."Ten years later people still accuse me of doing the 'stunt' on purpose," he wrote. "If they could have seen the look that Molly (Morter) and the rest of the racers gave me as they caravanned down the hill, they would know it was just me, being dumb-assed me."While the first-person accounts show the personalities, Haight also wrote about oft-overlooked pioneers, including the first female motorcycle competitor, Annie Brokaw, and the first woman to race a car; Joyce Thompson of Woodland Park.Some stories did not make the book. Of those, her favorite is about her father cooking a roast on his car's engine block as he raced up the mountain."There are just so many about so many others, I had to leave that one out," she said.The book is an extension of her volunteer work with the Pikes Peak Hill Climb Historical AssociationWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Tall Tales from Pikes Peak: Mostly True Stories of Hill Climb Racing. To get started finding Tall Tales from Pikes Peak: Mostly True Stories of Hill Climb Racing, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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