Mickey Thompson SIGNED by RACING LEGEND Challenger Land Speed Record
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Challenger: Mickey Thompson's Own Story of His Life of Speed
By Mickey Thompson with Griffith Borgeson
Published by Prentice-Hall, 1964 1st Edition
SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY!
Inscription reveals an important insight into the racing legend's disappointment with how the book was written!
"Dear Ed
Thanks for all the help. I don't like the way this book was written hover (sic) there is another now being rewritten, covering the last 10 years and you will be one of the first ones to receive it.
Mickey Thompson
1/28/73"
Book is was a gift from Mickey Thompson to Ed Madison who helped him with the Parker race track.
See photo of Mickey Thompson with Ed Madison here:
http://books.google.com/books?id=U7GPX3LrPwYC&pg=PA126&lpg=PA126&dq=%22Mickey+Thompson%22+%22ed+madison%22&source=bl&ots=el8Ws4acS7&sig=mTePIsBeYWb9IeODN2Ar952g5zI&hl=en&ei=SrrPSoWIA4jkNa3-oZQD&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22Mickey%20Thompson%22%20%22ed%20madison%22&f=false
Includes photocopied article entitled "Mickey Thompson honored by legislature" loosely inserted.
Condition: Book is Near Fine with very minor wear and discoloration to head and tail of spine (see photos), boards are slightly bowed. Dust Jacket is Very Good-, worn with chips and tears to extremities, light stain rear panel, unclipped.
Mickey Thompson
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mickey Thompson's Challenger I car from 1960
A Mickey Thompson owned dragster in 1971
Thompson was born in Alhambra, California. He was known universally as "Mickey." In his early twenties, he worked for the Los Angeles Times newspaper while becoming involved in the new sport of drag racing.
He developed a brilliant career as both a driver and an innovative
automotive technician; later as a designer, manufacturer and seller of
racing and performance equipment. In addition to being a drag racing
champion, Mickey Thompson set more speed and endurance records than any
other man in automotive history. He is credited with designing and
building the first slingshot dragster. Thompson also was noted for
being the first manager of Lions Drag Strip near Long Beach, California in 1955.
In 1960, at the Bonneville Salt Flats,
Thompson achieved international fame when he became the first American
to break the 400mph barrier hitting 406.60 mph surpassing John Cobb's one-way Land speed record of 402mph. In 1963 Thompson traveled to England where, along with Dante Duce, he demonstrated his Top Fuel dragster at the Brighton Speed Trials. In 1965 he published "Challenger: Mickey Thompson's own story of his life of speed." In 1968, he redesigned the Funny Car, and his vehicle went on to win the 1969 NHRA Springnationals and Nationals for driver Danny Ongais.
In his long career, Thompson raced everything from stock cars to
off-road vehicles and engineered numerous competition engines. He went
into the performance aftermarket business in the early 1960s and then,
in 1963 he created "Mickey Thompson Performance Tires" that developed
special tires for racing including for Indianapolis 500 competitors.
Thompson founded SCORE International in 1973, a sanctioning body to oversee off-road racing across North America. He and his wife Trudy formed the "Mickey Thompson Entertainment Group"
(MTEG) which ran an indoor motocross and off-road vehicle racing show
and competition that brought the sport from the back-country terrain tostadiums in the heavily populated metropolitan areas.
Murder, investigation, and associated trials
Trudy was deliberately killed first to make Mickey feel more pain.
The two gunmen were waiting Mickey's arrival from the side of the
garage, and once he walked out shoved a gun in his face. The gunmen
tried to shoot Trudy who was still in the car and she had no choice but
to try and drive away. Unfortunately she hit the side of the house and
had to escape the vehicle. While crawling on the steep drive way she
broke every manicured nail she had and scraped her knees while begging
for her life. After shooting Trudy in the head, the gunman put the gun
to Mickey's left ear and shot him.
Mickey and his pets are interred in the Rose Hills Memorial Park, in Whittier, California.
An intense police investigation led nowhere until thirteen years after their deaths when former business partner Michael Frank Goodwin was charged in Orange County, California with the murders. However, that case was overturned on jurisdictional grounds by the California District Court of Appeal. On June 8, 2004, Goodwin was formally charged in Pasadena in Los Angeles County. In October 2006, a Pasadena Superior Court judge ordered Goodwin to stand trial for the murders.
On January 4, 2007
a jury found Michael Goodwin guilty of two counts of murder in the
death of Mickey Thompson and his wife. Goodwin was sentenced to two
consecutive life-without-parole terms for the murders of Thompson and
his wife. The judge also denied Goodwin's motion for a new trial.
The murder investigation was the subject of the April 28, 2007 episode of the CBS television program 48 Hours Mystery.
The murder investigation was also the subject of an episode of NBC's Unsolved Mysteries.
Awards
- In 1990, Mickey Thompson was elected posthumously to the International Motorsports Hall of Fame.
- On the National Hot Rod Association Top 50 Drivers, 1951-2000, Mickey Thompson was ranked No. 11.
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