TV Tommy Ivo: From child star to drag racing showman

What a life. TV Tommy Ivo went from youth actor in the early television age (Margie, starring Cynthia Pepper, although Tommy’s even earlier cinema co-stars included Boris Karloff and Jerry Lewis) to an unstoppably wild drag-strip entertainer, an actor almost cyborg-melded with a race car. It was, therefore, perhaps inevitable that TV Tommy was going […]

A veneer of real polish

Once a year, automotive writer, historian, and stellar ex-racing PR guru Tom Cotter hosts a Woody Party at his homestead in the lovely college town of Davidson, North Carolina. I would have loved to make this year’s event, which took place on September 25, but couldn’t. I’m especially disappointed once I got these photos from […]

It’s time for Woodypalooza

We wanted to let all you folks who might be in and around the Charlotte area late this month know that our buddy Tom Cotter is preparing to host the 12th annual edition of his Woody Party on Saturday, September 25, from noon to dark in Davidson, North Carolina. You guys all know Tom, who’s […]