: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:

Jim McWithey
big Car stats

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

aXe

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

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

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

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!

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

:dologob:

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.

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

Obit and guest book

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