What a badass driver,seen him race at Reading,Langhorn and Allentown.Bright orange 56
@tagnut1952
3 жыл бұрын
Always loved Hurtibise as a kid. Saw him in the early/mid '60's at Indy driving a Novi. Man them things would scream. You could always hear them roar even in a pack of Offy's. Those were the days!
@701CPD
3 жыл бұрын
Saw Herk wheel the Sterling Pumbing Special sprint and Champ cars as a kid when my Dad took me to the races. Saw him back the sprinter over the fence between Turns 3 and 4 at the Dayton 1/2 mile in 1960. He was something else. R.I.P. Jim Hurtubise.
@healthyone100
Жыл бұрын
i remember as a kid Jim Hurtubise towed all the way from N. Tonawanda N.Y to Fonda Speedway my home track about 300 miles and won the feature!
@HODIUSDUDE
6 жыл бұрын
@1:32 his 1966 Atlanta win was actually a NASCAR Grand National (now "Cup Series") stock car race (not USAC) making the comeback even more remarkable.
@53tomphoto27
5 жыл бұрын
I was there. Roger Ward was leading. A.J.Foyt was 2nd, and Hurtubise was 3rd. They were that way lap after lap. I was sitting at the end of the 4th turn. As they came by I heard Ward's engine stop. He put up his arm to tell the drivers behind him that he was slowing. A.J. slowed down, but Herk ran right up over A.J.'s tire. He went airborne, and crashed into the fence. When he came down on the track his car was on fire.
@701CPD
4 жыл бұрын
Herk's Tombstone Special roadster had an extra (illegal?) fuel tank in the engine compartment. That's what blew when he hit the wall, and he was knocked out when one of his tires came off in the crash and hit him. He was unconscious in a cockpit full of burning fuel, that's what burned him so badly.
@mosesberkowitz3298
6 жыл бұрын
I heard about him when I was a kid-I had a book called Strange but true auto racing Stories. I heard he slid through the turns at Indy!
@williamstellwagen2709
4 жыл бұрын
I've read that he 'drifted' a little in the turns then upon exit snapped the wheel quick right then left, which popped up thehose tall Indy tires and shot him forward faster out of the turns. He was the real deal!
@earlcousins6635
3 жыл бұрын
"Herk" was THE MAN! RIP Jim.
@ozzymd1
7 жыл бұрын
A legend
@garylaatsch2588
6 жыл бұрын
My dad was there at Milwaukee. Herk got burned badly
@saddletramp6935
5 ай бұрын
Didn't he get his hands burned so badley that that when they were healing he made the choice to have them healed in a way so he could still drive a race car? I remember hearing that. Anyone?
@buckodonnghaile4309
4 ай бұрын
I'm not sure but it's more proof they don't build em like they used. Tough generation of men. Cheers
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