The pine jim shampine biography

Wrappers lightly worn with some light shelf-wear to the extremities present. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The authorized biography of Jim Shampine, the greatest open wheel short tracker of all time. One of the most successful drivers in Supermodified competition and an equally skilled racer in asphalt and dirt-track Modified stock cars, Jim Shampine March 25, September 4, of Clay, New York, had an innate knack for handling these high-powered machines.

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Then in he switched to racing at the five-eights-mile asphalt Oswego N. Speedway after he bought his friend Nolan Swift's championship-winning Modified and converted it to a Supermodified. And since Swift's cars were numbered "Ten Pins" Shampine figured "8-Ball" was as good as an identifier as any and that "call sign" eventually became well-known as the one on every car that he would race.

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