A  Jimmy Thrall Photo Album version 2.0.0   26Nov2007
Jimmy at age 2 in 1956.
The Thrall family with their bus at a logging camp, 1958.    From left to right, Jack, Sherrie, Rose Mary, Clara, Jimmy (in light grey overalls), Gene, and Roger.
Jimmy on left, then Sherrie, then a cousin.
Jimmy in Idaho.
Sherrie and Jimmy on ponies, 1963.
In Lookingglass, Oregon, where it never snows, 60 inches of snow fell in January, 1969. Here's Jimmy with an icicle as tall as he was that formed on the Thralls' house.
Jimmy with go-cart.
1972:  Jack, Sherrie, Jimmy next to their boat Judy Ann with their salmon catch.
Jimmy and his first race car.
The caption reads: ON THE TRACK for the first time this season, Harold Davis of Roseburg lips and "turtle" turns on the south end of the asphalt oval at the Douglas County Fairgrounds. Just behind Davis in another mini-stocker is Jim Thrall (car 5R). Davis went out of the action. Thrall was out of the money. (News-Review Photo by Greg Gendall)
Jimmy with a Vollstedt/Offy at Indianapolis in 1979.
Jimmy with a Vollstedt/AMC at Indianapolis in 1979. Drivers Dick Simon and John Martin working on the suspension settings.
Jimmy on the starting line of the 1980 Indianapolis 500 with Rolla Vollstedt's Vollstedt/Offy.
After being delivered to the site by helicopter, here's Jimmy digging down through the snow to the roof hatch of a mountaintop transmitter building to service the emergency generator. Not one of his favorite tasks!
Jimmy asleep on sister Rose's couch, December 1986.
Jimmy at an invitational at the Bonneville salt flats in 1987. Jimmy built the car, a C Fuel Lakester with turbo Offy power, for owner/driver Nick Pappas at Rolla Vollstedt's shop. The car was accelerating past 275 MPH toward the record of 320, when something let go in the rear suspension and the car rolled 37 times.
At a Toyota victory banquet, it had been announced that a necktie would be mandatory. Jimmy was not a suit-and-tie person, so he met the requirement with a rope knotted 13 times.
Jimmy's turbo Cosworth Vega in 1989. It had a rear wing, full cage, and large front spoiler. The hole in the hood was for the turbocharger exhaust. Starting the car inside a parking garage would set off many car alarms. Under boost at night, there would be a red flame in front of you arcing over the roof.
Jimmy with a shark on the line out in the Pacific Ocean.
Jimmy at AAR, taken by Kevin Kendall's camera phone, just a few weeks before.
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