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:respect:I LOST THE LAST OF MY BOYHOOD HEROS YESTERDAY! JIM WAS FROM GRAMMER IN. AND A COUSIN OF PAT OCONNER! WOULD HAVE BEEN 82 JULY 4TH HE WON RACES IN MUTUAL ROADSTERSI CSRA- IMCA- USAC SPRINTS CARS! AND RACEED IN THE INDY 500 1959 & 60 ALSO LIVED IN ANDERSON IN. MOST OF HIS ADULT LIFE! RETIRED TOO FLA.! RIP JIM.:checkered:

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Jim McWithey
big Car stats

http://www.driverdb.com/drivers/13333/career/

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Was one of my favorites also. Always timed well. Good lord Duke stay well. I'm running out of heroes!

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One of his big wins came in 1959 at Terre Haute in the beautiful Cheesman #25

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He drove for dizz wilson in the ranger and offy! Won in both imca and csra and the midwest racing assco.

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He got permission from usac too race imca at st paul on the dirt! With dale estes 220 offy and won 4 of 5 features and got second with a bad spindel! Beat the 300ci and 270ci offys!

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Jim was my early hero. I remember watching him run the 25 Cheeseman car. It was a Pankratz car I think. He sat up straight in the seat and gassed it.
He was a workhorse racer, he did it all and Indy too.

RIP Jim

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Very sad news. I never got the chance to see him race. I meet him at the Little 500 with my dad and talked about IMCA and the Little 500. I could sit for hours listening to him tell racing stories about the good old days.

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D.O. _ I think you are right on it - it was a Pankratz car - and I have your picture of it - and I haven't forgot that it is yours

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