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I grew up working for my dad at Harb Tire Recapping Service at 6 Conrad Street in Lexington. Originally the business my dad started in 1949 was Harb Garage. I was 5 years old and wrote my name in the wet concrete. When I was 8 years old, I went to work at the garage. I washed oil pans cleaned carburators and other car parts with gas. I did all the dirty work. I had my own coveralls and dressed just like a mechanic. I also usely smelt like one too!!
My dad raced Motorcycles in the late 40's and early 50's. He would build the Harley WR engines at the garage. I can still remember the sound of those engines. In the mid 50's the business turned more toward tires. I recapped tires, whitewalled tires and changed tires and everything else that there was to do in a recapping shop.
In 1969 at age 25 I left my dad's business and went to work for Firestone Tire as the Retail Sales Manager in the Charlotte district. I worked for Firestone for 6 months and they were building a new store in Lexington. They wanted me to stay with them an be the manager of the Lexington store. I was use to to doing business a lot different than Firestone so I decided to leave the company. I went back to work for my dad and stayed there until I turned 40 in 1983. At age 40 I knew that the days of recapping tires were about over, I knew the future would be in new tires and I would have to look outside my dads tire shop. He wasn't interested in changing the store to new tires so in 1983 I left Harb Tire Recapping an opened my own business, Mitch Harb's Discount Tire Sales at 1458 Old US Hwy 52 & 8 North in Lexington NC.
We specialize in new tires & mag wheels an have a large inventory with a wide variety of brands & sizes. If we don't have what you want we will be glad to special order for you.
I'm a North Carolina Tarheel Basketball fan & an avid Nascar & Dale Earnhardt Jr fan.
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