Classic Motorbooks book shop label
I'm in Birmingham today for the Alabama IndyCar Grand Prix at the Barber Motorsports Park . This post is slightly modified from a piece I wrote two years ago and seemed worth repeating for today's event. I found this book shop label (also known as a ticket ) in a 1969 volume of Autocourse . The bookseller was Classic Motorbooks in Minneapolis. I thought about removing it, but I let it go. The book quickly sold and I regretted not saving the label. But I did take a picture of it before the book was shipped overseas. I was curious to see if the bookshop still existed; after all, it's been nearly 40 years since that label was affixed inside the rear cover. To my surprise, it does exist, albeit in a dramatically altered state from its humble beginnings in 1965 in a Minneapolis garage. Through expansion, publishing, name changes, and changes of ownership and business focus, Classic Motorbooks morphed into MBI Publishing and its three imprints: Motorbooks, Voyageur Press, and Zen...