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If you buy one racing book as a present, this should be it! Hard Cover, 288 pp., B&W photos. S-1500: $34.95 THE PEOPLE’S CHAMP A Racing Life Back by Popular Demand! by Dave Darland with Bones Bourcier The memoir of one of Sprint Car racing’s LANGHORNE! No Man’s Land most popular and talented racers, a by L. Spencer Riggs champion in all three of USAC’s national Reprinted at last, with all the original content, this divisions—Silver Crown, Sprint Cars, and award-winning volume covers the entire history of the Midgets—and still winning! Soft cover, 192 pp., world’s toughest mile, fr om its inception in 1926 to its 32 pp. B&W and color photos. S-1376: $24.95 demise in 1971. With 560 pages and over 1,000 photos, this is a collector’s item for the racing historian and fan BLACK NOON The Year alike. Hard cover, 304 pp., 400+ B&W photos. 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