Tom Senter Mail Call

Tom Senter Mail Call

It’s been a while since I’ve done a mail call and figured this morning’s submission was perfect for such a thing. So, without further adieu, let’s do this thing:

Ryan,

I have an 8×10 1975 b&w photo of Tom Senter with his Ardun powered 32 High Boy. I wanted to post it within the Tom Senter string on your site, which I found via Google. I then registered for the site, but then, for the life of me, I could not sort out how to post the photo.

With all due respect, I suggest you should take a look at the conventions used in your sight. Several really want updating per current convention. I personally own several commercial web sites, one doing sales of $2 million per day — so I do know a bit about the importance of convention.’

Anyway, here is the photo. Some your readers will want to see it. Author and racer Tom Senter was a good friend.

Dean

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Now, there are a number of things I love about this submission, but let’s start with the email itself first and just get it out of the way. Yes, I’ve never been all that conventional… and so yes, my “convention” sucks. Maybe that’s why I don’t have $2 mil? It is, as Dean mentions, awful important.

But now let’s move on to the photo. To be honest, I don’t know a ton about Tom Senter. I know he worked at Hot Rod and Car Craft, wrote some flathead books, and raced at Bonneville. And all of that information was gathered mostly from captions written under photos of his well shared ’32 roadster… So yeah, I don’t have a full education on the man…

BUT, holy hell… Just look at how this photo is staged. I can tell you right now that Tom was cool as hell. I mean, he’s planted with early Bill Bowerman Nikes and capped by a Bell hat while being flanked by his beer drinking four year old on one side and both his gorgeous wife and adorable daughter on the other. And I haven’t even mentioned the blown Ardun powered deuce roadster in the background.

There’s no “convention” in this photo fellas. And honestly, I think that’s why I dig it so much…

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