“ …The pages that follow are not offered as an attempt at literary
style or excellence. I am far from being a writer, and, to tell the
truth, “Wall Smacker” was the hardest task I’ve ever undertaken. It was
my good fortune, however, to have had my career as an automobile racing
driver during a glamorous and pioneering period of the sport era both in
America and on the Continent that produced many immortals of the
“Roaring Road,” and was packed with events and incidents of unusual
interest to all followers of speed. Many of my friends, realizing this,
have urged me repeatedly to write my reminiscences in the form of an
autobiography. Here, at last they are. I’ll feel fully repaid for my
efforts if this book is entertaining, and happy, indeed, if it serves to
keep alive at least a few of the episodes of a great chapter in the
history of American automobile racing…” Peter De Paolo - November 1st,
1935. (Peter De Paolo was the American race car driver who won the 1925
Indianapolis 500)
