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“Langhorne” and “Hinnershitz” Books Now Available at National
Sprint Car Museum
KNOXVILLE, IA (March 10) – There are few words that excite veteran ‘big car’
and sprint car fans as much as “Langhorne” and “Hinnershitz” do. And the
National Sprint Car Museum in Knoxville, Iowa, is proud to announce that it
is now carrying the newly released books “Tommy Hinnershitz: the Life and
Times of an Auto Racing Legend” and “Langhorne: No Man’s Land” in its store.
The Tommy Hinnershitz biography was written by author Gary Ludwig, who was
once a columnist for Illustrated Speedway News. The book chronicles the
extraordinary racing career of National Sprint Car Hall of Fame (NSCHoF)
inductee Tommy Hinnershitz, the “Flying Dutchman” from Oley, Pennsylvania.
The book was published by Basket Road Press, Inc., and is now available at
the National Sprint Car Museum in Knoxville and through its on-line store.
The retail price is $29.95.
The book about the legendary track in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, was written
by noted motorsports historian L. Spencer Riggs. The life-long racing
enthusiast has authored several motorsports books and is a member of the
NSCHoF’s National Induction Committee. The book includes a foreward by Brock
Yates and tells the fabled Langhorne story from its beginning in 1926
through its last hurrah in ‘71. The book, published by Pitstop Books, is
full of great photos from Langhorne and is now available at the museum
store, priced at $75.
Also back in the museum store inventory is the book, “Up On The Wheel”,
written by “Bud” Hunnicutt. “Up On The Wheel” is a very informative book
about Kansas City area auto racing with regards to its stars and jalopies,
supermodifieds, midgets and sprint cars. Published by Walsworth Publishing
Company, “Up On The Wheel” sells for $39.95
The National Sprint Car Museum store carries a large inventory of racing
publications along with the ‘Largest inventory of sprint car gifts and
collectibles on the planet’. The store is located just inside the National
Sprint Car Hall of Fame & Museum in Knoxville and is open Monday – Friday,
10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturday – Sunday, 12 Noon to 5 p.m. The museum store
inventory may also be viewed and purchased 24-hours-a-day, 365-days-a-year,
by logging onto the on-line store at: www.sprintcarstuff.com. Those wishing
to place an order over the phone can do so by calling the non-profit
national museum toll-free at 1-800-874-4488. Visa, Discover, MasterCard and
American Express credit cards are all accepted.
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