One Off: The Roads, the Races, the Automobiles of Toly Arutunoff

If a book can do justice to its subject, this comes as close as it can. Toly was never less than one of the Best.

Per appassionati

a great journey

The book is well written and a real page turner when he gets into one of his stories...his car knowledge and putting it together with his experience is "one of a kind"....I know, I have had the pleasure of meeting him and also being on a few rallys with he and his wife...they really compliment each other....At a dinner or convention he is surrounded by people just wanting to meet him....he has plenty more to write about and I wish he would---I would relish it for myself and they make great gifts for the car-minded who want to know "the rest of the story" !! Dr. Robert W. Mackey in Tulsa.

I was part of Toly's world and ran against him meeting him as he lay under his Morgan in Bermudah shorts with dark socks and street shoes in the paddock at Pueblo Motorsports Park. I heard how he made Hallet track to run counterclockwise being a lefthand drive so he could beat the righthand drive Bugeyes like I drove. But anyway I enjoyed the book as it brought many good memories of my racing in the Midwest Division of SCCA and my times at Road Atlanta. I do recall standing under an awning with Honda Bob in 1981 with Gordon Smiley watching the runoffs in the rain, which it did all week in Oct. 1981. This was the Fall before he was killed at the Brickyard not in the '70s as the book states. But even with the dates in question I'm pleased with his putting the experiences in print so us old farts can reminisce when we were fast and hot. I'd love for a bunch of us to get together with a few beverages and shoot the bull. Loeved the book. Blair Lang