Fareed "Fred" Joseph Harb Jr. (June 14, 1930 – December 18, 2016) was an American stock car racing driver.
[4] 1958 brought unprecedented success for Harb, as he entered 25 races on the Grand National circuit.
[6] During the final race of the season, at Lakewood Speedway near Atlanta, Harb saved the life of fellow driver Bill Morton's life by blocking traffic while Morton's disabled car was sitting upside down in the middle of the track after an accident.
[7] For his 19 starts in 1959, Harb was plagued by failing to finish, recording ten of them on the season and at one point driving two races away from his No.
Running for himself as well as two different owners in 1963, Harb recorded a career-best finish of second at Bowman Gray Stadium.
[13] He also ran one race for the legendary Buck Baker, but Harb's engine failed en route to a 14th-place finish.
[18] Scaling back to just over half the schedule, Harb recorded just two top tens all year, and had one disastrous race in which his motor blew on the first lap of a contest at Hickory Speedway.
When he was not racing, he operated an auto shop in his hometown of High Point, North Carolina.