{"product_id":"manila-racers-a-pictorial-archive-1978-1983-9781969944185","title":"Manila Racers: A Pictorial Archive, 1978-1983","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Virnard Magpantay\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Epic Foundry Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Epic Foundry Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Conceptual\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eManila Racers: A Pictorial Archive, 1978-1983\u003c\/strong\u003e presents a visual record of a brief and largely undocumented car culture that emerged in Metro Manila during the late 1970s and early 1980s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross backstreets, industrial zones, and improvised circuits, young drivers and seasoned mechanics built machines from whatever they could find-salvaged engines, discarded chassis, mismatched parts. With limited tools, little formal training, and no expectation of permanence, they learned through repetition, failure, and necessity. What mattered was movement. What mattered was speed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe result was a generation of hand-built vehicles and self-taught drivers, supported by a small network of photographers, illustrators, and historians who attempted to document it as it happened.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book assembles those fragments into a single volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo official record of this scene exists. \u003cem\u003eManila Racers\u003c\/em\u003e is a work of fiction, constructed as a historical archive of a culture that could have emerged from the conditions, people, and ingenuity of the time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Epic Foundry Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47882941595799,"sku":"9781969944185","price":1567.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781969944185.webp?v=1781098204","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/manila-racers-a-pictorial-archive-1978-1983-9781969944185","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}