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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: