Marty Schorr was destined to be a car guy. His teachers might have showed us his notebooks, which contained more car sketches than coursework. His hot rod club buddies in the 1950s in Westchester County, New York would likely agree. Schorr was always a true car guy. He admits to drawing pictures of cars in school, but the second point requires a little clarification.
“I was really not that good with mechanical stuff as far as working on the cars, so they had to find a job for me in the club,” Schorr said with a chuckle. “So they made me the public relations or publicity director.”
Right Hand Man
As a journalist and editor, Schorr has over five decades of experience with the world’s most amazing machines. He rode with Carroll Shelby and was at the press conference for the debut of the Lola-built Ford GT that became the GT40. He drove the GT40 on the streets of New York City and accompanied Mickey Thompson to Bonneville in 1969 to set a book full of records. And books are Schorr’s thing. His latest, Day One, was featured at the end of December in our Book Garage series. But before all that was just another young man trying to make his way. “I would take some pictures of the cars and the guys, and go to the track where they put on some shows,” Schorr recalled. “I had a regular job. I was working for an insurance company and I was going to college at night but I was able to meet people at the magazines.”
Schorr would...