Joe Petrali - Signed
by Doc Braham
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Joe Petrali - Signed
Artist
Doc Braham
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Photograph - Photography, Pop Art, Contemporary, Black & White, Portfolio, Original Art, High Class Fashion, Painting, Conceptual, Mixed Media, Abstract, Contemporary, Success, Unique, Odd, Quirky
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Retouched and cleaned up the entire image. Breathed new life into the way I see the great innovator Joe Petrali.
Joe Petrali, or Smokin’ Joe, as his friends liked to call him, was arguably the country’s finest racer from the mid-1920s to the mid-30s, and perhaps one of the greatest motorcycle racers of all time. Petrali was one of the last great Class A racing stars who competed in board track racing, dirt track, speed records and hillclimbs. Petrali won an amazing 49 AMA national championship races, a mark that would not be surpassed for 55 years, until 1992, when Scott Parker won his 50th AMA national.
By the time Petrali retired from racing in 1938, Class A, which featured purpose-built, high-dollar racing machines, had faded and the new Class C racing formula, which called for lightly modified production motorcycles, was taking center stage. Petrali’s retirement symbolically marked an end of the great three-decade era in motorcycle racing, where it was the cream of the best racers in the country competing against one another on the best racing machines the factories could build.
- © Doc Braham; All Rights Reserved
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December 21st, 2017
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