* Jim started his racing career at the age of
sixteen, along with his cousin, Billy Foster.
* One of the most memorable events occurred early in Jim's driving career.
He was doing practice laps at Western Speedway in his first race car and
had a mishap occur in turn one. The car rolled over, the seatbelt broke
and Jim ended up on the racetrack with the car landing on top of him.
At the time, he was not expected to live more than an hour after the crash.
His parents were rushed from up-Island with a police escort, but Jim proved
everyone wrong as he still competes into the millennium.
* For most of his racing career, Jim was a one-man crew, driver and owner.
For the majority of his years, he competed on a shoe-string budget but
was always there and always a part of the show.
* In 1964, Jim moved out of the ever-popular Stockers and up into the
B-Modified class.
* In following years, Jim drove a variety of cars, primarily stock cars.
* 1972 saw Jim driving a new stock car. At the first race of the season,
Jim was involved in an accident which saw his car flipping and rolling
nine times down the backstretch at Western Speedway. Being the true racer
that he is, Jim was back out with his car the following week.
* During the 1973 racing season at Western, Jim was honoured with a big
celebration of his twenty years of continuous racing. There were numerous
gifts presented to Jim at the racetrack in front of a full grandstand.
* Jim started the year with a two car team in 1976. His son, Kerry, would
be the driver of the second car.
* This two car team continued racing together for a number of years.
* Jim is still competing in the very competitive Stock Car class and will
continue to race into the year 2000 and beyond.
* He holds the record of the longest continuous competitor at Western
Speedway, a record that will probably never be broken.
