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Available at the RACER Store: Tony Bettenhausen and Sons: An American Racing Family Album
Perhaps less well known, but still among the handful of successful American racing families are the Bettenhausens -- Tony and his sons Gary, Merle and Tony Jr.
Taking a different path to telling more of the Bettenhausens’ story led award-winning author Gordon Kirby to seek advice and assistance from Merle and Susan Bettenhausen. The result is a fresh pictorial approach that makes use of the superb Racemaker Press photo archive as well as the family’s and Merle’s personal collections.
“Working in partnership with my Racemaker Press publisher, Joe Freeman, we created a visual odyssey of the Bettenhausen family’s epic story,” Kirby said. “It starts with two-time Indy car champion Tony Senior’s first laps at the wheel of a midwestern midget in 1938, and follows Gary’s, Merle’s and Tony Jr.’s careers with over 350 photos.”
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, is completed by full statistical data of the Bettenhausens’ racing careers.View more excerpts from the book at VintageMotorsport.com.
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