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S-1761
Price: $34.95
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THE
PFROMMER OFFY
A History of An Iconic
Sprint Car
by Alan F. Gross
Through a 15-year search to uncover
and verify the provenance of a Sprint Car that was ultimately
revealed to be the famous Pfrommer Offy, owner Alan Gross has
documented every owner and driver from 1954 to thepresent:
Thirty drivers, including 15
Indianapolis 500 veterans and 8 National Sprint Car HoF inductees,
including Tommy Hinnershitz, who won the 1959 USAC Eastern
Championship in the car.
Now meticulously restored to its 1960
livery, it proudly wears #1, denoting the 1959 championship.
Soft cover, 156 pp., 200+ color/B&W
photos/illustrations.
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S-1743
Price: $59.95
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SAMMY! 50+ Years
of Winning
By Sammy
Swindell
with Bones Bourcier and Bob Mays
Foreword by Dick Berggren
Sammy
Swindell, is among the most successful and most interesting drivers
in the history of American automobile racing. From his start as a
teenager at local tracks until an age at which most athletes are no
longer willing or able to compete successfully, Sammy has been a
winner.
You may be
surprised to learn how well Sammy did in the few Indy Car drives he
had. You'll also find out how he feels about his time in NASCAR and
how close he came to driving for Dale Earnhardt. Also obvious is the
importance of the mechanical edge he gained by working on and living
with the cars he has raced.
A big part
of Sammy's secret is no secret at all: He'll beat a competitor
because, in his words, "I'll work harder."
This is the
story of how a man conquered his world.
Hard cover,
coffee-table book, 352 pages,
336 photos - 243 color, 93
B&W.
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S-1752
Price: $32.00
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This book is a collective biography, with 13
individual biographies and the story of one iconic Florida race
track. It covers both pavement sprint car racing and the historic
Little 500, through the stories of some of the famed drivers in
those arenas.
Two authorized biographies of National Sprint
Car Hall of Fame inductees are included for Pete Folse and Frank
Riddle.
There are six biographies of Little 500 Hall
of Fame inductees: Wayne Reutimann, Dave Scarborough, Robert Smith,
Jack Nowling, George Rudolph, and Frank Riddle. Additional
biographies for Ralph Liguori, Johnny Hicks, Pancho Alvarez, Cush
Revette, Larry Brazil, and Dick Byerly are included.
Tampa's
auto racing history is told through the life story of Tampa racing
legend Johnny Hicks and the other subjects, with the story of Golden
Gate Speedway added to increase the excitement level of the
rip-roaring, pedal-to-the-floor, all-out NASCAR, Indy car, and
sprint car racing stories that are told by award-winning journalist
and author Richard Golardi, who interviewed 92 people and gathered
more than 95 hours of recorded interviews and spent five years
writing the book.
Soft cover, 569 pages, B&W photos.
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S-1644
Price: $12.00
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Racing with "The
Doctor"
by Todd Thomas
Jerry Crabb and his white and red 12x sprint car were familiar
sights at Knoxville Raceway and central Iowa tracks in the 1990s and
early 2000s, mainly in the 360 class. He began racing motocross in
the ’60s and raced flat-track motorcycles, three-wheelers,
four-wheelers, and nearly anything else with wheels, well into the
2010s.
However, he didn’t set foot in a sprint car until the
age of 47 in 1990, at the spring World of Outlaws race in Knoxville.
He was the winner of the 1998 Masters Classic
at Knoxville.
Learn about the old-school and charismatic Crabb, the interesting
cast of characters that supported him, what it’s like to be a crew
member during a night at the races, and entertaining episodes
throughout his sprint-car career.
Written by one of Crabb’s
crewmembers and compiled from notes taken at the time, author Thomas
invites you to grab a wrench, mud-scraper, and tire tape and come
along as he reflects on 15 years of chasing big dreams with a local
grassroots sprint-car team.
Soft cover, 206 pages.
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S-1590
Price: $49.95
New
Price: $29.95
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MODERN THUNDER: The Illustrated History of USAC
National Sprint Car Racing 1981 - 2017
by Dave Argabright, John Mahoney,
and
Patrick Sullivan
Years
in the making, Modern Thunder is much more than a history
book. It is a narrative, telling the story of several generations of
racers through powerful words and spectacular photographs.
Award-winning writers Dave Argabright and Patrick Sullivan provided
the text, while legendary racing photographer John Mahoney reached
deep into the archives to provide over 1,300 memorable images.
You’ll find:
Year-by-year coverage of every USAC National Sprint Car season.
Each season from 1981 to 2017 is detailed with eight full pages of
photos, a season summary, race results, and statistics.
Each of the 1956 to 1980 seasons is recapped with a full page of
statistics and race results.
Detailed series statistics.
A complete listing of Indiana Sprint Week competition.
Hard
cover, 380 pages, over 1,300 color and B&W photographs.
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S-1569
Price: $29.95
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HEWITT’S
LAW
Expanded Edition
by Dave Argabright
Jack Hewitt remains
one of the most memorable characters in modern motorsports. His
autobiography is finally back in print after the original printing
sold out long ago.
Updated with two new chapters and an
additional gallery of photos, Hewitt’s Law continues to
entertain and inspire.
Jack’s spectacular career took him
from
extremely humble roots to the Indianapolis
500 to the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame.
Hard cover, 336 pp. 64 pp. of color and B&W photos.
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S-1477
Price: $24.95
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Sprint Car
Challenge
by Dave Argabright
Jimmy
Wilson is back with Sprint Car Challenge, the 4th novel in the
highly regarded series based on the USAC Sprint Car trail of the
1970s.
Intense
racing action, fascinating characters and situations
demonstrate why this series has developed a cult following.
Hard
cover, 128 pp.
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S-1347
Price: $24.95
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Sprint Car Showdown
by Dave Argabright
Sprint Car Showdown is Dave
Argabright’s third title in the popular Jimmy Wilson saga. This book
covers Jimmy and the Ellison Special through their third and highly
eventful season on the USAC trail.
The entire cast is here:
Jimmy, Harvey, Slim, Sonny, Bobby, Steve Graffan, and a few new
characters. Each page is filled with dramatic racing action.
The long-running "Best of Times" fictional series in Sprint
Car & Midget Magazine is the basis of this edition, thrilling
readers with the cheers and tears of sprint-car racing in the 1970s.
Hard cover, 288 pages
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S-920
Price: $29.95
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Dialed In –The Jan
Opperman Story
by John Sawyer
Dialed In –The Jan Opperman Story
has been
re-released in a new edition. According to the publishers it is “a
book that is acknowledged by many as being a classic auto-racing
story. It is filled with passion and pathos, sometimes humorous,
sometimes sad.
The Jan Opperman story is one of never giving up and having faith in
a divine being.
It provides the reader the rare opportunity to peer behind the
glamorous facade of auto racing and meet the inner man.
The friendship between narrator and author is evident and while much
of the book is Jan’s own words, John Sawyer has carefully authored
them. From a teenage street fighter, motorcycle flat track racer and
California
hippie to respected Sprint car driver and Indy 500 racer - Jan
Opperman's story is remarkable, entertaining and difficult to put
down."
Soft cover,
5 1/2" x 8 ½”, 144 pages,
38
black & white photos.
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