Car Guy Magazine Car Guy Magazine Issue 215 | Page 6

W ith a name like Corky Coker you might have only a few career choices available to you. Perhaps as a route driver delivering soft drink products for Coca Cola, or a street businessman in Miami providing white powdered party favors, or a confectionery store owner selling assortments of chocolates some with nuts others not, or a personal injury lawyer in Houston driving a new Bentley with 29” wheels, or a wine sommelier at an upscale restaurant dispensing various grape vintage factoids or even a slick haired bartender at a college hangout working the young and beautiful crowd who likes to party. But none of that happened. Corky decided to follow in his dad’s, Mr. Coker to you, footsteps manufacturing vintage tires from rubber trees. Not to mention to being the very best at it, in fact Corky rocks the classic car world. Not only does he supply the tires for thousands of no longer manufactured motor vehicles but he participates in the hobby in a very big way. He’s the real deal and a great guy to boot. We revisit with Corky from the paper pages of my former American Driver magazine to the digital on-sceen pages of Car Guy Magazine you see here. You’ve already read the Table of Contents and have a good idea where you want to go from here, so I’ll let you “have at it” like my own dad use to say. In which I would promptly fall off of something, run into something and/or even blow something up. So there ya go, enjoy your 80 plus pages of electronic joy including videos and live weblinks! Sincerely, Tim Miller [email protected] 4 CarGuyMagazine.com the publisher’s note WATCH THE VIDEOS! CLICK THE WEBLINKS!