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Jim McElreath, 1928-2017

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Jim McElreath, 1928-2017

By alley - May 18, 2017, 4:55 PM ET

Above: Jim McElreath, 1980. McElreath made 15 Indy 500 starts.Jim McElreath, who started his Indianapolis 500 career as rookie of the year in a roadster back in 1962 and finished it 20 years later in the ground-effects era as his own chief mechanic, passed away Thursday at the age of...

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