Bud Moore's Right Hand Man: A NASCAR Team Manager's Career at Full Throttle

The Moore family racing history is an excellent story that was not well assembled in this book. It reads like a random stream of consciousness, leaving it up to you to fill in the blanks. For example, when covering the 1965 season, a random comment is made about missing the 97 Daytona 500. Decades out of context. Trans Am was introduced by a random comment of “by 1970 daddy had done pretty well in the Trans Am thing”, with no coverage or mention of their efforts. The co-author also mentions “400 North Fairview” as a synonym for the race team on nearly every other page. It’s so excessive that it would only be fun as a drinking game. It is a difficult read and would have done the great Moore family story much more justice with proper structure and editing.

If a reader wants to know what it was and is like to be a key part of NASCAR, then this book is the way to do that. I was fascinated. I've known Greg and Bud Moore for many years but i did not truely understand all the inner workings of of that race ream. Perry Wood captured what Greg wanted to tell racing enthusiasts. Greg does a very good job of balancing the good the bad and the boarderline in NASCAR. No sugar coating. And no fluff. Just a solid tale of dedicated professionals.Well done and a great read!

I didn't think it was written that well but it had some great stories told by the ones that lived. Will probably read it again

Very interesting book I really enjoyed it.

Gift for my 90-year-old father, a lifetime Nascar fan. He loved it!

gave as a gift - recipient loved it

BUD MOORE’S RIGHT HAND MANBy Greg Moore with Perry WoodNASCAR? Good ol’ boys? Fine-tuning engines beyond belief? But, I must tell you, this book is a kick and I thoroughly enjoyed it.Yes, the one failing is its lack of coherent organization; a reader struggles to put events in chronological order from time to time, but, overlooking that, the author, a famed NASCAR team manager, along with occasional input from another NASCAR maven, Perry Wood, lets the reader see behind the scenes of the drama of NASCAR, from almost its inception in the early 1960’s, when racers were thrilled to win $10,000, to today, when millions of dollars are paid, won, lost, and wept over in a billion-dollar business.The author, Greg Moore, peppers his narrative with vignettes of famous NASCAR racers, from Junior Johnson (yes, I read Tom Wolfe’s “Junior Johnson, the Last American Hero. Yes.”) to Dale Earnhardt, and all the luminaries in between. Despite his rubbing elbows with and working and racing with all the movers and shakers in the racing community, Moore maintains a down-home, straight-talking, humorous voice that makes the reader feel as if he knows him personally. Loyal, hard-working, and definitely innovative, Moore writes about his experiences as his famous NASCAR Hall of Fame father, Bud Moore’s, right-hand man and pulls the reader right onto the shop floor and onto the track and behind the scenes with all the colorful characters.The details of each engine breakdown and refining are mind-boggling, as the author shares each story, such as this one on cylinder heads. “I said…’Something’s going on with these d*** heads. I’m seeing something. You couldn’t measure it. I always walked around with a dial, an indicator measuring stuff. I’d change valve seat angles one degree, even half a degree. You do something like that and it might mean 20 horsepower in the motor. The motors were getting that refined. That’s the trouble they have with them now. It’s like you breathe on a cylinder head and you lose 20 horsepower. I’ll bet you’re talking about $100,000 in cylinder heads of different configurations of the same design. Nobody had a handle on it, and this was the trick to the whole thing.” Needless to say, with a different manifold, changing the pistons around, and “stuck some other goodies on it,” Greg Moore ensured it would really run – and it did.Any NASCAR fan or Formula One fan, or anyone who enjoys a straight-talking autobiography of a person who achieved great things behind the scenes and a reader who enjoys colorful stories of a different time and place – the heart of NASCAR in the South – will appreciate this book.

Excellent insider's look at the sport and gives personal insight into the players of the time, some of whom are still around. Reading it brings them and the deals swirling around the #15 race team (and others) a real life feel. Well written and thoughtful as are other Perry Wood edited books I have read.