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Tom Medley Tom Medley (20 March 1920 - 2 March 2014 ) was an American hot rodder and cartoonist, best known as creator of Stroker McGurk. History Medley was born in Lebanon, Oregon, 20 March 1920.Vaughn, Mark, West Coast Editor. "Tom Medley 1920-2014", wri ...

, featured in ''Hot Rod'' and ''Rod & Custom''. Medley's famed creation debuted in the third issue of ''Hot Rod'', and continued in the magazine until 1955. He would reappear briefly in 1964 and 1965, and occasionally in ''Rod & Custom'' in the 1980s. Stroker (as he was always known) drove a trademark 1929 Ford roadster in most of his appearances, but also innovated a number of things later copied by real-life racers, including multiple-engine dragsters,

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