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Remembering Jim Gresham
by Norm Bogan

While racing is fun and enjoyable, occasionally we have to attend a memorial service for one of our guys.  September 3, 2004 was one of those days.  Jim Gresham was 55 years old and started racing motorcycles about forty years ago in Las Vegas and later in southern California.  In the heyday of Speedway Motorcycles, they ran about five nights a week and Jim was one of the heroes. He was a self taught fabricator, welder and engine builder.  He helped everybody, friend or foe.  If he had an on track disagreement with someone and found them broke down on the way home, he would pull over to help.  He raced sprints with the VRA sporadically, but was always in the pits to help his friends.

He went on the NWWC Tour with Jimmy Crawford as the Crew Chief.  After the last show at Kansas City, Crawford flew home to return to his business, while Gresham drove the hauler back to the West Coast, by himself.  On Wednesday morning, about 20 miles from his destination, Jim evidently fell asleep and ran into an embankment, with the momentum driving the trailer into the Crew Cab and crushing Jim to death.  Today we celebrated his life and mourned his death and tomorrow we will all be at Ventura Raceway for a final tribute to a real gentleman, Jim Gresham.

 

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