Stroker McGurk is a cartoon character created by Tom Medley, featured in ''Hot Rod'' and ''Rod & Custom''. Medley's famed creation debuted in the third issue of ''Hot Rod'', and continued in the magazine until 1955. He would reappear briefly in 1964 and 1965, and occasionally in ''Rod & Custom'' in the 1980s. Stroker (as he was always known) drove a trademark 1929 Ford roadster in most of his appearances, but also innovated a number of things later copied by real-life racers, including multiple-engine dragsters,

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