 He was inducted into the V8 Supercars Hall of Fame in 2007.Firth has often been described as a 'bush engineer', someone who could probably build a race winning engine from nothing more than a roll of wire, while leading Australian Motoring journalist and former part-time racer Bill Tuckey once wrote of Firth that as a driver, engineer and team manager, he was ""As cunning as an outhouse rat"".On Sunday 27 April Harry Firth died peacefully in his sleep surrounded by his family, he was aged 96.