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Tag: Jim Hurtubise

Life by the Numbers

On April 9, 2014April 9, 2014 By wastedpilgrimIn Life2 Comments

I’m 56. What does the number mean to me? It was the number associated with the race-car driver Jim Hurtubise, who, in addition to his occasional brilliance, was the Don Quixote of the Indianapolis 500 because, for a number of years, “Herk” tried to qualify a front-engined roadster after low-slung, rear-engined designs had come to …

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