{"id":496072,"date":"2016-12-01T00:53:54","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T08:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=38453"},"modified":"2024-01-04T22:01:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T22:01:38","slug":"product-reviews-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/product-reviews-12\/","title":{"rendered":"[Book Review] Tony Bettenhausen &#038; Sons: An American Racing Family Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Tony Bettenhausen &amp; Sons: An American Racing Family Album<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">By Gordon Kirby with Merle and Susan Bettenhausen<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/PR201612-p1-1080x989-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-578203\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/PR201612-p1-1080x989-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"989\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/PR201612-p1-1080x989-1.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/PR201612-p1-1080x989-1-300x275.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/PR201612-p1-1080x989-1-1024x938.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/PR201612-p1-1080x989-1-100x92.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/PR201612-p1-1080x989-1-770x705.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/PR201612-p1-1080x989-1-293x268.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although only the eldest, Gary, came close to matching his father\u2019s Hall of Fame achievements\u2014earning inductions of his own to the Sprint Car and Midget Halls of Fame\u2014both his siblings, Tony Jr. and Merle, also made their way up the racing ladder to Indycars.\u00a0While there is surely enough text adorning the book\u2019s high-quality paper stock to keep a reader occupied, this book is primarily a photographic archive of Bettenhausen family history, with an excellent selection of informative images and artifacts provided by the family telling the tale perhaps better than simply text alone would.\u00a0Readers can also see how racing evolved in the aftermath of World War II, as cars became sleeker, lower, more aerodynamic and, of course, more powerful. And the Bettenhausens were right in the middle of it all.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Available for US$59.95 from enthusiast bookstores, or direct from publisher Racemaker Press at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racemaker.com\">www.racemaker.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Bettenhausen &amp; Sons: An American Racing Family Album By Gordon Kirby with Merle and Susan Bettenhausen Although only the eldest, Gary, came close to matching his father\u2019s Hall of Fame achievements\u2014earning inductions of his own to the Sprint Car and Midget Halls of Fame\u2014both his siblings, Tony Jr. and Merle, also made their way up the racing ladder to Indycars.\u00a0While there is surely enough text adorning the book\u2019s high-quality paper stock to keep a reader occupied, this book is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":742445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263,11339],"tags":[2942,17152,17940,3297],"class_list":["post-496072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car-culture","category-product","tag-car-books","tag-car-culture","tag-product-reviews","tag-products"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>[Book Review] Tony Bettenhausen &amp; 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