Chuck Green ran those early events and that was where I first met Jim. He was one of those guys I would call observational. He would quietly take a visual assessment of the cars in the event and then just dismantle the field with his little unassuming Firebird. As a lifelong Pontiac fan, It was just a beautiful thing to watch. The Big Block Chevies fell like cord wood, the hemi's making all kinds of racket and even getting out of the hole ahead of the little bird, only to get run down on the big end!!! Something that would rarely happen to a hemi car. It was just a beautiful sight. Jim had quiet confidence and his car never disappointed. Like bringing a knife to a gun fight. But his knife was a scalpel in the hand of a surgeon. RIP Jim Mino.
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