Career
Hinnershitz was active through the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s on dirt, asphalt and boards, driving Sprint Cars, at that time slightly smaller versions of Indianapolis cars that could be raced on half mile dirt race tracks. Hinnershitz was inducted into the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame in 1975. Hinnershitz was inducted in the National Sprint Carolina Hall of Fame in the first class in 1990.