I am always amazed that cars that won Indy were sold off to other teams . If I owned a winning car I think it would be very difficult for me to sell. 

Thanks for posting that picture Jack.

I was probably too young to really have watched Herk in his prime, but after reading the story about his determination to return to racing after suffering serious burns to his hands/others, I locked in on him and his story.  Like a lot of you guys, I drew a lot of pictures of race cars in my school note books, instead of school notes... and many of mine had the the #56.

I dug through some open wheel Terry Shaub photos, provided by the late Ed Shaub and found these:

Here's one of Jim at Pocono marked 1971:

Here's one marked 1973:

Back in the 70s Pat Singer and I were at Syracuse for dirt week. Well Saturday was nothing but rain and things got called for the day. Well we ran into Herk and after a bit of what we going to now we decided to go up to the Glen where the US Grand Prix was running . Soooo Herk says to do you know how to get there? Nope . Well Don follow me. Can you imagine trying to keep up with him through the hills and twists going to the Glen! Let's just say Pat put some fingernail marks in her dash! So we get there in one piece and walk around the pits with Herk and the first person we run into is Mario so we BS with him under the umbrella til he needs to and we go back to strolling the pits and who do we meet next , Linda Vaughan who comes running over to get under the umbrella with Herk, Pat and me. Now think about this 20 something kid standing toe to toe with Linda under this umbrella with Herk just carrying on for about Twenty minutes in the pouring rain. My back got soaked(you can figure out why ) but it was a ride and a rainy day I will always remember for sure.

Wow! Great story!

well i myself and my dad were huge herk fans - at usac sprint races and anything at langhorne so 1day after he was qualifing for the roc modified race i said to my dad lets go down the street to scrappys auto body [heibers own that hence garys number 56 ] cause thats where jim would hang out - so we did and he stuck his hand out to shake mine and it was deformed from the fire well i must have had agoofy look on my face as i was stairing at his hand - he said its ok i wont hurt you, we both laughed - what a great man and what a great experience i had that day- awsome !

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Great picture Jack, and like Joe commented, Jim's life story made me a fan as well, even though I was too young to see him race in his prime. Through the years I've collected tons of atricles and pictures of him at Indy and in Sprint and Champ cars.  I even got the opportunity to meet his brother (and chief mechanic on his cars in the mid 60's) Peter, many years ago, and we still talk a couple times a year. He has some great stories from their years on the road.  Bob Gates did an excellent job on his book "Hurtubise" If you can get your hands on it, you wont be disappointed!