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News from the 25th annual Racing Legends Reunion
& Car Show presented by Reading Eagle and WEEU
830 AM
Media Contact: Brett Deyo - 845.728.2781 or
Deyo99H@aol.com
For Immediate Release/February 23, 2010
Open Wheel Stars Visit Fairgrounds
Square Mall Monday; Racing Legends
Reunion Continues Tonight With 600Scene.com
Small Car Roundtable
READING, PA - Stars of the
region's open wheel ranks visited the
Fairgrounds Square Mall Monday for Pioneer Pole
Buildings Inc. Open Wheel Night.
URC champion J.J. Grasso of
Middletown, Del., and ARDC champion Frank
Polimeda of Fort Lee, N.J., led the list of
drivers interviewed during the second day of the
25th annual Racing Legends Reunion & Car Show
presented by Reading Eagle and WEEU 830 AM.
Others appearing included
two-time 2009 URC winner Davey Sammons, URC
talent Randy West, versatile and talented Steve
Buckwalter, ARDC stars P.J. Gargiulo, Trevor
Kobylarz, Bruce Buckwalter Jr., Carey Becker and
Dave Shirk along with 305 Sprint Car rookie
Billy Ney.
Racer, promoter and car builder
Rich "Toby" Tobias Jr. of Speedway Entertainment
took the stage to discuss his affordable
Slingshot and SpeedSTR Midget divisions.
Ms. Thunder on the Hill Racing
Series 2010 Cassi Pinder was formally introduced
and interviewed.
Brian Hirthler of Four Star Lettering & Graphic
Design (Green Lane, Pa. -
www.4starlettering.com)
installed and lettered sail panels for the No.
117 driven by his brother, Kevin Hirthler,
drawing a crowd in center court.
J.J. Grasso, Davey Sammons, P.J.
Gargiulo and Steve Buckwalter stepped behind the
bar at the Applebee's adjacent to the mall on
5th Street Highway after show hours.
With 113 race cars on display,
the show continues through Saturday (Feb. 27)
with nightly activities planned. The show
features a wide cross-section of racing
vehicles, including vintage/restored cars, big-
and small-block Modifieds, Late Models, Sprint
Cars, ARDC Midgets, SpeedSTR Midgets, Sportsman,
Roadrunners, Micro-Sprints, XCel 600 Modifieds,
Slingshots, Go-Karts, Quarter Midgets and more.
Among the 2010 show exhibitors are Grandview
(Pa.) Speedway, Big Diamond (Pa.) Raceway,
Kutztown Fairgrounds (Pa.) Speedway, Thunder on
the Hill Racing Series, URC, Reading Eagle,
Pioneer Pole Buildings Inc., Speedway
Entertainment (Slingshots and SpeedSTRs),
Reading Fairgrounds Speedway Historical Society,
RAACE Foundation, Doug Borger's XCel 600
Modifieds, Gary Silverman Productions, Dale
Snyder Video, Clyde Martin Memorial (Pa.)
Speedway, Bob Hilbert Sportswear, Keystone State
Quarter Midget Club, the NEETS Enduro Series and
the Montgomery County Quarter Midget Racing Club
The show resumes tonight (Tuesday, Feb. 23) the
600Scene.com Small Car Roundtable
featuring Kevin Steele, Barry Angstadt, Mike
Dicely, Doug Borger and Richie Hartman at the
stage. Pete Knappenberger serves as the MC. The
Roundtable begins at 7:30 p.m., with driver
interviews kicking off at 7 p.m.
The annual Reading Fairgrounds
Speedway Reunion (Friday evening, Feb. 26 at
6:30 p.m.) and the LLANDCO Inc. Penn National
Speedway Reunion (Saturday afternoon, Feb. 27 at
5 p.m.) are among the show highlights.
Show awards - including the first Don Marks
Memorial Contribution to Motorsports Award -
will be distributed during the popular BASH
Racing Party to be held Friday night, Feb. 26 at
the Temple Fire Company, just blocks from the
mall, beginning at 9 p.m. Beer City of
Quakertown and Lee Myles Transmissions are
presenting sponsors of the BASH.
The BASH Party will feature music for dancing, a
cash bar, racing movies (including 2009 footage
from the Pennsylvania Dual-Track circuit) and
plenty of bench racing. Tickets to the BASH are
$10 and will be sold during the show and at the
door.
Driver bartending at the
Applebee's on 5th Street Highway, adjacent to
the small, is planned for Wednesday, Feb. 24 and
Thursday, Feb. 25 beginning at 9 p.m. each
night.
Author Gary Ludwig appears nightly beginning at
4 p.m. and during mall hours on Feb. 21 and 27
to autograph copies of his best-selling book
Tommy Hinnershitz, The Life and Times of an Auto
Racing Legend, which will be on sale at the
show.
Randy's Raceway of Kutztown, Pa., has set up his
HO slot car track all week during the show. A
celebrity race featuring Modified racers is
planned for Wednesday's 'Modified Madness'
program.
Vendors are on hand selling national and local
racing memorabilia, collectibles, racing DVDs
and much more.
For general show information, contact Brett Deyo
at 845.728.2781, via e-mail at
Deyo99H@aol.com
or on the web:
www.bdmotorsportsmedia.com.
For further information on the Reading Eagle or
WEEU, log on to
www.readingeagle.com
or
www.weeu.com.
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