Dick Martin has pulled the chute for the last time

[MRK]

Renowned automotive journalist and racer, Dick Martin passed away on July 2nd after losing his battle with cancer.
Dick was widely known as a journalist and historian who wrote many stories about automotive legends for Rod & Custom, The Rodder's Journal and others.
He was a racer too having gotten his start as a boy in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania racing soap box derby cars. After serving a stint in the Army, he raced his Corvette at Riverside while being tutored by Ken Miles. He was a land speed racer and drove his Fiero in the F/GT class at Bonneville and El Mirage as a member of the High Desert Racers.
Besides his career as a writer, he worked for NBC television doing audience promotion, selling copy machines for the 3M Corporation and was head of West Coast Operations for Turbo Master before embarking on his journey as a writer and historian.
He was married to his wife Beverley for 53 years who passed in 2018 and is survived by his son Carl, daughter Holley, 3 grandchildren and 7 great grand children.
No plans for a memorial have been set as of this writing.
Godspeed Dick.

[tallguy]

I enjoyed reading Martin's Musings, and am thankful for the opportunity.