Jim Summers

HurstBros0 · 12/1/08, 3:24 PM

Jim Summers was a mechanic and car owner from the late forties / early fifties until his death in the late sixties. Upon his passing his widow sold his last sprint car to someone in the southern Illinois / Indiana area . Dave Hurst thinks he can remember seeing it run as a red # 45 in the early seventies around Haubstadt. He also told me who he thought was driving it but wasn`t sure . It was a pretty prominent for the day driver from the eastern Illinois area.

Why the interest after almost 50 years ? I ran into his son the other day and he told me if he could find it he would restore it . He saw the Old Timers over at Salem and thought he would like to try that .

I told him it has probably been dismantled and parted out by now and the old frame cut up for scrap , but I would throw it out to you guys on here and see if there was a chance it still existed . Steve Summers and myself would sure appreciate any information you have.

Thanks,
Dan Hurst

smith19 · 12/1/08, 8:09 PM

Dave, jim was maude's cousin. She said aj sheppard destroyed that car the first night out in it. She bought her first car off jim. The blue #19. Run that by sydney and see if he remembers that. Chris

smith19 · 12/1/08, 9:08 PM

Dan, another side note to that is the crash occured at the burg and jim was working on the car trying to put it back together and was tierd. He went into the house laid on his bed and died of a heart attack.

HurstBros0 · 12/2/08, 1:58 PM

Thanks Smitty ,

Dad remembered that maybe Wes Stafford had bought it or drove it. He thought that he was from around in the Vincennes / Terre Haute region.

Dan Hurst

12/1/08, 3:24 PM	#1 Jim Summers
HurstBros0 Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 676	Jim Summers was a mechanic and car owner from the late forties / early fifties until his death in the late sixties. Upon his passing his widow sold his last sprint car to someone in the southern Illinois / Indiana area . Dave Hurst thinks he can remember seeing it run as a red # 45 in the early seventies around Haubstadt. He also told me who he thought was driving it but wasn`t sure . It was a pretty prominent for the day driver from the eastern Illinois area. Why the interest after almost 50 years ? I ran into his son the other day and he told me if he could find it he would restore it . He saw the Old Timers over at Salem and thought he would like to try that . I told him it has probably been dismantled and parted out by now and the old frame cut up for scrap , but I would throw it out to you guys on here and see if there was a chance it still existed . Steve Summers and myself would sure appreciate any information you have. Thanks, Dan Hurst

12/1/08, 8:09 PM	#2 Re: Jim Summers
smith19 Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 1,941	Dave, jim was maude's cousin. She said aj sheppard destroyed that car the first night out in it. She bought her first car off jim. The blue #19. Run that by sydney and see if he remembers that. Chris

12/1/08, 9:08 PM	#3 Re: Jim Summers
smith19 Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 1,941	Dan, another side note to that is the crash occured at the burg and jim was working on the car trying to put it back together and was tierd. He went into the house laid on his bed and died of a heart attack.

12/2/08, 1:58 PM	#4 Re: Jim Summers
HurstBros0 Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 676	Thanks Smitty , Dad remembered that maybe Wes Stafford had bought it or drove it. He thought that he was from around in the Vincennes / Terre Haute region. Dan Hurst