Re: Jim "The Shoe" Harrington
 

Those picures are awesome.....Jimmy WAS larger than life itself.....I was with him a little in 1985 the day before he won Stock at the Gatornationals. He had not raced that Stocker much and told me as we hung out in the lanes to move the car up in the lanes, ....and make a run in case he doesn't get back in time from wherever he was going!!!! I never even sat in the car and was totally unfamiliar with it! .....A Typical Jim Harrington story !..... I was crewing for my good friend Dave Schapiro and we lost early in S/G.....The race was postponed due to terrible weather if I recall right and we left and headed home to NJ........On the way home the next morning we heard by phone that Jimmy had WON Stock......We stopped along the NJ Turnpike and it was very cold and I just shook my head in disbelief when I heard "The Foot" as we called him back then had won......He was unbelievable........I have more stories but so would anyone that knew the big guy.......He was great.....I will surely miss seeing him even though we were not close friends....

Re: Jim "The Shoe" Harrington
 

Are GREAT FRIEND Jimmy "The Shoe" has been laid to rest and in typical SHOE fashion, his final actually SHUT DOWN I80 and it was/is so classic for him! He would have laughed as hard as we all did thinking about it!

RIP My dear friend! You will NEVER be forgotten!!!!

Re: Jim "The Shoe" Harrington
 

Shutting down 4 lanes of 1-80 on a Saturday is certainly classic JIM.. I snapped a photo of it. There must have been 75 or so cars in the funeral procession. (What a great final round!)

Everything at the wake - from Jim with his JEGS fire jacket on.. to the huge Dragster shaped flower piece, and another flower piece shaped as a shoe - was a great tribute for a man who left us with memories of a life time.

Sal

Re: Jim "The Shoe" Harrington
 

Our thoughts and prayers go out to Tracey, little Shoe and the family. We all loved him very much!!!

The Higgins
Jay, Sheri & Savannah

Re: Jim "The Shoe" Harrington
 

Hard to believe that it's been a full year since we lost Jim. I still think of him often and won't ever forget all the good times.

Re: Jim "The Shoe" Harrington
 

The Shoe will always be remembered in the Waters family.....

Re: Jim "The Shoe" Harrington
 

Same here.
We lost quite a few this year.
RIP SHOE

Re: Jim "The Shoe" Harrington
 

Jimmy and i were everyday friends since before he even had his driver license and while there are some great stories of adventures and mishaps even back then

I will always remenber all the great opportunities he gave me and the places i got to go with him that i would not have been able to go to without him and i truely know how he wanted to do the best for everyone

R.I.P. I think of you everyday

Re: Jim "The Shoe" Harrington
 

Truly one of a kind. Great dude.

Re: Jim "The Shoe" Harrington
 

That hi way deal really was cool Sal, or as Shoe woulda said "that was SPECTACULAR !"