Good News - Fourth Printing of Beltsville Shell!
The first three printings of Beltsville Shell | You Are What You Drive were completely Sold Out in late 2025.
But, we have Good News! The fourth printing is now available and the books are for sale on Amazon.com. The new version is identical to the first three printings -- paperback format, same color cover, same 196 pages, and the contents are identical to the third printing. The only difference is the inside cover showing "Fourth Printing - 2026". Best of all, the supply will never run out again!!
The link to access the book is here . . .
Buy Beltsville Shell | You Are What You Drive
On Sunday, to celebrate this happy event, Nan and I were visited by Thomas Payne (author of the famous Garage Journal "Restored 1930's Auto Shop" that many of you have seen and read), his wife, Chris, and our mutual friend, Lou Bingham (owner of multiple Bonneville Land Speed Records).
Thomas has been a huge supported of Beltsville Shell, including the copy that has circled the World three times, so we bestowed on him one of only two "Author Proof" copies of the book for his library.
Only through the skill and expertise of our fabulous printing partner, Valdimir Medvinsky, were we able to change the delivery model from the “old fashioned way” to the brilliant new “print on demand” service (in which each order is custom printed and mailed to the buyer by Amazon).
By the way, if you have any printing needs, please check out Vladimir's website here:
Thank you to everyone who has supported my book for the past 23 years!
Cary Thomas, April 2026
I just found this review by Steve Wall . . .
ReplyDeleteBeltsville Shell - You Are What You Drive, is a collection of tales, remembrances, facts, and history as told by a writer who was in the thick of things during the heyday of the muscle car era.
The subtitle captures the essence of a time when what you drove said nearly everything that young, car-crazy youth felt they needed to know about you.
This book is a collage, presented in colorful stories of the era as it was in one small town, and surely very similar in countless other towns across the USA in the latter half of the 1960s. Cary Thomas has created a masterful period piece, one that should entertain anyone who ever had, or now has, any interest in what the scene was like. The characters and the cars, the races and the chases, the mishaps and the tragedy, are all rolled into the mix.
It's fascinating, funny, heart-warming, keenly observant, and at times poignant. I thoroughly enjoyed it - so much so that I have read it twice, and bought several copies to give to friends.
Give it a read. You won't be disappointed.