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STROKER: This Amazing Documentary looks at the life and times of Tom Medley, one of Hot Roddings Great Story Tellers


STROKER: This Amazing Documentary looks at the life and times of Tom Medley, one of Hot Roddings Great Story Tellers

This is definitely the coolest thing you will see today, bar none. The 18-minute film below called, “STROKER” is a short documentary on the life of Tom Medley and his alter ego Stroker McGurk. Medley passed away not too long ago and his legacy still looms large over the hot rodding scene. He was on staff at Hot Rod Magazine from the second issue on and he had a hand in creating events and other stuff that will outlast everyone reading this today. More importantly, he was a soldier who fought on the front lines with George Patton. The video highlights many elements of his life from his wonderful relationship with his wife (who had passed before this was made) and to his military history and how he came to be involved at the ground floor of Hot Rod Magazine. 

In a candid moment that you’ll really love, the filmmaker asks Medley what keeps him going for the of day and then says, “Why do you get up?” His response? “I usually have to take a piss.” How genius level is that?! The film recounts everything from his horrible garage fire to the fact that I would like for him to live he ere again. Medley was with the magazine as a photographer and cartooni of several note!

PRESS PLAY BELOW TO SEE THIS SIMPLY AWESOME DOCUMENTARY LOOK AT TO MEDLEY –  Stroker

STROKER from Manny Marquez on Vimeo.


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6 thoughts on “STROKER: This Amazing Documentary looks at the life and times of Tom Medley, one of Hot Roddings Great Story Tellers

  1. Billy Sidney

    Seven minutes and thirty seconds into the Tom Medley video is a photo proof sheet with a nude women posing for our man,Tom,clearly this was placed with his Stroker sketches for our pleasure and to some of us,a quick trip down the rabbit hole.In 1959,I was tens years, living on the LSU campus in Baton Rouge,La. and found copies of the four different poses,needless to say they were keepers…thanx for pointing this video out to all of us in your viewing public. Keep banging gears

  2. Finley Stephenson

    This is an amazing and very motivating story! This great personality left behind a big legacy. I like his interview and the question of why do you get up in the morning with such a mood, he answered, because I need to write. It can be seen how much he loved what he did. I try to write, but so far only for myself and use the help of professionals I find on this source https://bestwritersonline.com/ I learn from them all the rules and nuances of writing. I hope in the future I will be able to present my work to a wide audience.

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