Jim "The Shoe" Harrington

Rich Biebel · 01-01-2010, 08:40 PM

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....

01-01-2010, 08:40 PM	#19
Rich Biebel VIP Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Northern New Jersey suburbs Posts: 2,314 Likes: 25 Liked 544 Times in 213 Posts	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.... __________________ Rich Biebel S/C 1479 Stock 147R Last edited by Rich Biebel; 01-01-2010 at 08:43 PM.