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Knoxville Draggins Car Club & National Sprint Car Museum Partner on Motorcoach Trip to “Speedy” Bill Smith’s Museum of American Speed

The Knoxville Draggins Car Club and the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame & Museum are pleased to announce that they will be partnering on a roundtrip motorcoach excursion to “Speedy” Bill Smith’s Museum of American Speed in Lincoln, Nebraska, on Saturday, April 17. […]

Books on Zink, Wilke’s and Sacramento’s Dirt Track Racing Heritage Available at Sprint Car Museum Store

Continuing the pre-Christmas trend, books continue to fly off the shelves of the museum store at the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame in Knoxville. […]

ICE STORM POSTPONES “SALUTE TO BOB TROSTLE” UNTIL FEBRUARY 18

Today’s winter ice storm in Knoxville, which is forecast to last until 6 a.m. tomorrow, has forced the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame & Museum to postpone Thursday night’s planned “Salute to Bob Trostle” reception until the next available date in the “Sprint Car 101” Third Thursday Series, which is February 18. […]

Kasey Kahne Named Recipient of the “Outstanding Contribution to the Sport Award”

Former full-time sprint car racer Kasey Kahne, now owner of Kasey Kahne Racing (KKR) with its United States Auto Club (USAC) and World of Outlaws (WoO) sprint car teams, has been named the recipient of the 2009 “Outstanding Contribution to the Sport Award” […]

NATIONAL SPRINT CAR HALL OF FAME ANNOUNCES “CLASS OF 2010”

The National Sprint Car Hall of Fame is pleased to announce the names of its twelve inductees for 2010. […]

DONNY SCHATZ NAMED NORTH AMERICAN 410 SPRINT CAR POLL “DRIVER OF THE YEAR” FOR 2009

For the fourth consecutive year, Donny Schatz of Fargo, North Dakota, was voted the “Driver of the Year” by the North American 410 Sprint Car Poll voting panel of media members, promoters, sanctioning officials and manufacturers. […]

SHANE STEWART NAMED NORTH AMERICAN 360 SPRINT CAR POLL “DRIVER OF THE YEAR” FOR 2009

For the first time in his career, Shane Stewart of Bixby, Oklahoma, was voted the 2009 “Driver of the Year” by the North American 360 Sprint Car Poll voting panel of media members, promoters, sanctioning officials and manufacturers. […]

“SPRINT CAR 101” THIRD THURSDAY SERIES TO START WITH BOB TROSTL

Following some very well received receptions during the past 24 months at the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame & Museum, curator Tom Schmeh has established a series of monthly get-togethers for 2010 entitled “Sprint Car 101”. The programs will be held on the third Thursday of each month, beginning on Thursday, January 21, with a “Salute to Bob Trostle”. […]

NATIONAL SPRINT CAR MUSEUM TO TRAVEL THE “WORLD OF WHEELS” CUSTOM CAR SHOW CIRCUIT

Remember that special feeling you had as a youth when you went to a custom car show over the winter and saw a real race car on display alongside all of those fancy street-legal hot rods? […]

NEW BOOKS FLY OFF THE SHELF AT MUSEUM STORE

Once again, books are the leading seller at the museum store at the National Sprint Car Museum during the holiday season. […]

NSCHOF’S HOLIDAY MASS MAILING SENT, CALL OR E-MAIL

Thanks to the hard working staffs at Pella Printing in nearby Pella and Mail Services in Urbandale, the National Sprint Car Museum’s annual holiday mass mailing packages were sent out today from Des Moines. […]

50th KNOXVILLE NATIONALS TICKETS AVAILABLE FOR HOF SECOND FLOOR

$380.00 for the best seat in the house at the Knoxville Nationals! […]

VENDORS RESPONDING TO CHRISTMAS CRAFT FAIR AT THE HALL OF FAME

With a little over two weeks remaining before the National Sprint Car Museum in Knoxville hosts its inaugural Christmas Craft Fair on Friday-Saturday-Sunday, November 27-28-29, vendor booth space applications are being received on a daily basis. To date, many vendors from across central Iowa have signed up to showcase their handmade crafts to the public and demonstrate some of their crafting techniques. The show will be open from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. on Friday, Saturday and Sunday this Thanksgiving weekend. […]

PERRIS TO HOST NATIONAL SPRINT CAR MUSEUM SILENT AUCTION

The Perris Auto Speedway in Lake Perris, California, will host the non-profit National Sprint Car Hall of Fame & Museum at this weekend’s Budweiser Oval Nationals. Besides hosting the museum foundation’s quarterly board of directors meeting, the dirt track will host a museum-benefit silent auction of unique sprint car racing memorabilia and a display featuring the late Billy Wilkerson’s Don Brown-built, Ernie Duncan-owned 1967 California Racing Association (CRA) championship-winning sprint car. The beautiful black number 2 sprint car and the auction items will be found under the grandstands on all three nights, November 5-6-7.
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