K’NEX Launches Contest For a VIP Trip To 2011 NASCAR® Sanctioned Race

Hatfield, PA, (Vocus) August 30, 2010

K’NEX, the construction toy company focused on Building Worlds Kids Love, is celebrating the introduction of its new officially licensed NASCAR building sets now available at Target stores nationwide with a one-of-a-kind contest. Consumers who purchase a K’NEX NASCAR building set at Target are eligible to win a VIP trip to their favorite NASCAR-sanctioned race in 2011 including four tickets, round trip transportation, two night hotel stay, and a NASCAR prize pack. In addition to the grand prize winner, 88 additional winners will receive a $ 24 Target gift card.

“After the success of our first NASCAR ticket contest in April, we are excited to offer fans the chance at an even bigger and better prize,” said K’NEX President Michael Araten. “This is all thanks to our partnership with NASCAR which, like this contest, continues to be exciting, unique, and one-of-a-kind.”

K’NEX Officially Licensed NASCAR building toys were introduced in 2009 with Jeff Gordon’s No. 24 Pepsi car and Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s No. 88 National Guard car. The line expanded in July 2010 with officially licensed NASCAR pit crews, garages, transporter rigs and additional drivers and cars including Juan Pablo Montoya and Tony Stewart. The building sets include enough cars, parts, and accessories to create an entire NASCAR world!

For more information and to enter the contest visit http://www.knex.com/News_and_Events/Win-VIP-Trip-To-Race.php. Entry forms must be postmarked before midnight on September 17, 2010.

About K’NEX Brands

Founded in 1992, K’NEX Brands was established to make and sell what has become one of the world’s leading integrated construction systems for children. Winner of over 200 international awards and recognitions, K’NEX seeks to build young minds with its exciting product line and critically acclaimed K’NEX Education program. For more information, please visit http://www.knex.com.

About NASCAR

The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, Inc. (NASCAR) is the sanctioning body for one of North America’s premier sports. NASCAR is the No. 1 spectator sport – with more of the top 20 highest attended sporting events in the U.S. than any other sport, and is the No. 2 rated regular-season sport on television. NASCAR races are broadcast in more than 150 countries and in 20 languages. NASCAR fans are the most brand loyal in all of sports, and as a result more Fortune 500 companies participate in NASCAR than any other sport.

NASCAR consists of three national series (the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, NASCAR Nationwide Series, and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series), four regional series, and one local grassroots series, as well as two international series. Also part of NASCAR is Grand-Am Road Racing, known for its competition on road courses with multiple classes of cars. NASCAR sanctions more than 1,200 races at 100 tracks in more than 30 U.S. states, Canada and Mexico. Based in Daytona Beach (Fla.), NASCAR has offices in New York, Los Angeles, Charlotte (N.C.), Concord (N.C.), Conover (N.C.), Bentonville (Ark.), Mexico City, and Toronto

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Turnbull Manufactured Firearms to be Awarded to NASCAR Sprint Cup Pole and Race Winners at Texas Motor Speedway

Bloomfield, NY (PRWEB) April 8, 2010

Turnbull Manufacturing Company will be providing commemorative firearms to the winners at the April and November 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races at Texas Motor Speedway.

Turnbull Manufacturing has created three pairs of Turnbull 45 Colt style single action revolvers with 5 ½” barrels, and (pre-ban elephant) ivory grips. These pistols are custom engraved with a modified Colt factory ‘A’ pattern, with crossed checkered flags on the front of the frame, the State of Texas outline on the breech ball, and the Texas Star on loading gate.

All the pistols will be highly polished and appear as the original Colt pistols did in the late 1800s, utilizing specialized finishing processes that have been perfected by Turnbull. These pistols’ will feature a carbona blue finish while the frame, gate and hammer will be bone and charcoal color case hardened, along with a nitre blue finish on all the screws and pins.

One pair of pistols will be on display at Texas Motor Speedway throughout the 2010 race season, and will be fired off during the Victory Lane celebrations in true Texas style. At the end of the race season, Texas Motor Speedway will auction off its pair of Turnbull manufactured pistols. Proceeds from the sale will benefit the Speedway’s children’s charity.

Per tradition, Texas Motor Speedway presents a set of pistols to the race winner at two of its marquee events, the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races. One pair will be awarded to the winner of the Samsung Mobile 500 on April 18 and another pair will be for the winner of the AAA Texas 500 on November 7. Each pair of pistols will be presented in a custom-fitted, glass panel front handgun display case.

Additionally, Turnbull Manufacturing has created two Turnbull model 1886 deluxe take down rifles which will be presented to the pole winners for the April and November 2010 Sprint Cup Series races at Texas Motor Speedway. These Turnbull rifles feature a 26″ half round, half octagon barrel in 45-70 caliber. Each rifle will feature a gold colored inlaid panel on the butt stock and will be custom engraved with the Texas Motor Speedway logo, and the tag line “The Great American Speedway.”

All the Turnbull manufactured guns will have custom serial numbers to signify them as unique trophies for these NASCAR Sprint Cup Series events. Keith VanOrman, Turnbull Manufacturing Company president, will present the commemorative firearms in the winner’s circle along with company founder, Doug Turnbull.

About Turnbull Manufacturing and Doug Turnbull Restoration

Turnbull Manufacturing Co., Inc. creates faithful reproductions of vintage firearms working from original designs such as Colt and Winchester. They also work closely with several gun manufacturers to recreate limited edition “vintage” firearms. Founded as Doug Turnbull Restoration, the company is also world renowned for the faithful and accurate restoration of vintage firearms using the same processes and techniques used by the original gun makers. They also specialize in custom firearms work and gun upgrades.

Turnbull Manufacturing Co., Inc. is headquartered in Bloomfield, N.Y. USA. For more information, contact them at 585-657-6338 or visit http://www.turnbullmfg.com

About Texas Motor Speedway: Texas Motor Speedway, with a crowd capacity in excess of 190,000, is among the largest sports stadiums in America and features an array of amenities that make it one of the premier venues in the world of sports. Known as “The Great American Speedway!,” the 1.5-mile superspeedway located in Fort Worth plays host to two races in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Nationwide Series and Camping World Truck Series as well as one in the Indy Racing League IZOD IndyCar Series. The attendances for the NASCAR Sprint Cup events since the facility opened in 1997 annually rank among the largest sporting events in the United States. Texas Motor Speedway is owned and operated by Speedway Motorsports, Inc. a publicly traded company that is a leading marketer and promoter of motorsports entertainment in the United States.

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