Muscle-car shop helps rev up retros for racing — but discourages it on the streets
Business is good at Kenny Bomar’s 2nd Hand Power Speed Shop at 609 Sandridge off Summer Avenue. About 70 customers are waiting for his call to bring their cars into his five-bay shop. (Tom Bailey/Daily Memphian)
Muscle-car shop owner Kenny Bomar warns customers that if they keep racing in the streets he may see them at the weekly Bible class he leads at the Penal Farm.
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Tom Bailey
Tom Bailey retired in January as a business reporter at The Daily Memphian, and after 40 years in journalism. A Tupelo, Mississippi, native, he graduated from Mississippi State University. He has lived in Midtown for 36 years.
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