Two Wheeled Thunder

In the fifties,Gober Sosebee's Auto Service on Bankhead Avenue in Atlanta was in this building. The racing shop was in the basement on Griffin Street.

Then came a new adventure in learning.

“I left and went with Al Rodi at the Indian Motorcycle dealership on Dekalb Avenue at Five Points in downtown Atlanta,” Jimmy said. Ted Edwards and George DeLong had started with the Indian franchise but had it when Jimmy went there in 1955.

“Al had come from up north somewhere. We raced ‘hare & hound’ and endurance runs within a two or three hundred mile radius,” Summerour said.

“Every time I went by Sosebee’s place, he would try to get me to quit riding motorcycles and go to work for him. Gober thought they were too dangerous!”

For his senior year at the school of hard knocks, Jimmy did go to work for Gober. Sosebee’s Auto Service was on Bankhead at Griffin Street just down the street from Claude Moon’s garage.

“It was an old service station with garage storage downstairs with access from the back,” he said. “That was were he kept the race cars. We did all kinds of repairs but also worked on the race cars.”