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S-1803
Price: $39.95
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TURKEY NIGHT
Midget Auto Racing
at Thanksgiving –
Race by Race 1934 - 2024
by Dave Wolin
The complete and
never-before-told story of Midget auto racing on Thanksgiving.
From the
beginning as the Thanksgiving Night Midget Grand Prix at Gilmore
Stadium in 1934, through Gardena Stadium, Ascot, Speedway 605, Ascot
again, then Saugus, Bakersfield, Perris, Irwindale and now Ventura,
Turkey Night—the third oldest auto race in the United States—is a
staple of Midget racing, a pinnacle many attempt but few reach.
Meet Bob
Swanson, Bullet Joe Garson, Mel Kenyon, Gary Bettenhausen, Billy
Englehart, Bill Vukovich Parnelli Jones, A.J. Foyt, Tony Stewart,
Kyle Larson and many more big-name drivers who tackled Turkey Night.
Race by race
descriptions: Tough racing, and always surprising the number of
drivers who don't make the show!
Soft cover, 590
pages, B&W photos.
Includes a DVD
of all the photos, articles and videos.
Autographed by
the author.
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S-226
Price: $59.95
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THE MIGHTY
MIDGETS
by Jack
C. Fox
This
true classic is finally available again. The Mighty Midgets
takes you back to the very beginnings of the sport in the 1930s and
leads you through the memorable history of Midget car racing. These
cars represented not only a traditional training ground for the
nation’s professional drivers, but a way of life, and even death, to
those who became addicted to them.
Hard cover, 302 pp, B&W
photos throughout.
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S-1523
Price: $24.95
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CAGES ARE FOR
MONKEYS
- Unleashed with Kevin Olson
Racing’s Zaniest Hall of Famer
by Kevin Olson with Lew Boyd
Foreword by Tony
Stewart
The laugh-out-loud
memoir of one of America’s most accomplished and enduring open-wheel
racers and without a doubt one of its wackiest.
In a 50-year
career, Kevin Olson has raced Midgets all over the U.S. and famously
Down Under, along the way winning multiple USAC, BMARA and other
championships. Inducted into both the National Midget Auto Racing
Hall of Fame and the USAC Hall of Fame in recognition of his driving
talent and success,
Olson is probably equally well known for
his off-the-wall sense of humor and non-stop pranks. Like Kevin,
this book is candid, nostalgic, and consistently outrageous. Give it
to anyone who loves racing and needs a smile to make their day.
Soft cover, 204 pages, 98 B&W photos.
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S-187
Price: $39.95
Sale Price: $29.95
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Kurtis-Kraft Midget Genealogy
Companion Edition,
An Illustrated History
By Bill Montgomery
This “Companion Edition”
is a full volume update of Bill Montgomery’s December
1999 publication, Kurtis-Kraft Midget- A Genealogy of
Speed.”
The companion is hard bound, 167 indexed
pages, and it contains hundreds of remarkably good photographs
of Kurtis-Kraft midgets everywhere they raced. It is
inconceivable that any open wheel enthusiasts would
not enjoy this book.
Hard cover, 8 3/8” x 9
7/16”, 167 pages.
over 200 black and white photos.
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S-1288
Original Price: $125.00
Now: $29.95
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Distant
Thunder: When Midgets Were Mighty
by Dick
Wallen
Distant Thunder: When Midgets Were Mighty presents a thorough
history of the birth and flowering of the California midget car
racing craze from 1914 to 1950.
Nearly 400 pages long,
it is crammed with over a thousand photographs, original color
paintings and detailed information about the "Doodle-Bug" racers
that captivated Californians and the nation from the late 1930s
through 1950. Many great American champions and Indy 500 winners
such as Sam Hanks, Bill Vukovich, Bob Sweikert and others learned
their track skills in these fast and dangerous little cars.
Hard cover, 395 pages.
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