Speedy Bill Smith and I recently collaborated on his autobiography, "Fast Company." The book is slated to be released on Dec. 3, and I'm very happy with how it turned out. Speedy Bill is quite a character with some great stories about his career in racing and hot rodding. (Sometimes things weren't so great, as this was a terribly dangerous era in our sport.)

If you aren't familiar with Speedy, he owned race cars from the late 1940s to the early '80s and had some of the best in the business in his cars at one time or another. Lloyd Beckman, Ray Lee Goodwin, Jan Opperman, Doug Wolfgang, Ron Shuman, Bubby Jones, and many more. He also founded Speedway Motors in 1952, and today the company is one of the largest distributors of performance and racing parts and supplies in the world. Bill is 80 years young and still going strong.

If you have enjoyed any of my other books, I think you'll enjoy this one. Bill is a hardcore racer and he tells it like he sees it without any sugarcoating. He speaks in a way we open wheel people can relate to, I think.

Orders placed before Dec. 1 will be signed by both Bill and I.

For more info, you can click on the ad at the top of this page (blinking purple ad...thanks to Bill Gardner's creative touch!) or visit www.americanscenepress.com.

And now, I need a vacation...