Remembering a friend…..
Posted: May 2, 2022, 7:54 am
I’m not sure how long The Slick 60’s website will carry on, but it would be a shame for it to go under.
Seems like every since we lost Tom Placer of Flashback F-100’s, this site has also dropped off. For the past couple of years I could come on here nearly any given day and read a post that Tom made. He always made the F-100 world interesting for us all.
I first met Tom back in 1982. He could never enter a room, or a crowd of people without his kooky SMILE getting there first. He loved his family, friends, and trucks (and he made it known that they had to be FORD trucks). If you didn’t know that, you didn’t know Tom.
We worked together for about 12 years. Going out West, (junk yarding) attended tons of Swap Meets, and making a lot of F-100 friends. We use to love going to the Pate Texas Swap Meet in the early years, even in some blinding downpours of rain, when you knew darn well that everything you stepped in wasn’t mud.
He loved to answer the phone at the shop, and people loved talking to him. He had a very unique talent….he never forgot anything. A customer would call, order parts, and when they would give him their address, he would sometimes say, I know where you live. You live right around the corner from that Jack In The Box chicken place in Northern Las Vegas. Or a person who hadn’t called in five years could call, Tom would answer and as soon as the customer spoke, Tom would recognize their voice and say, hey Kenneth we haven’t heard from you in a while. Most customers were amazed that he remembered them.
I think Tom took this website to a new level, so I hope we’ll all do our part to help it get more active in memory of him and Kathy.
Maybe someone else has a COOL memory of Tom to share………
Seems like every since we lost Tom Placer of Flashback F-100’s, this site has also dropped off. For the past couple of years I could come on here nearly any given day and read a post that Tom made. He always made the F-100 world interesting for us all.
I first met Tom back in 1982. He could never enter a room, or a crowd of people without his kooky SMILE getting there first. He loved his family, friends, and trucks (and he made it known that they had to be FORD trucks). If you didn’t know that, you didn’t know Tom.
We worked together for about 12 years. Going out West, (junk yarding) attended tons of Swap Meets, and making a lot of F-100 friends. We use to love going to the Pate Texas Swap Meet in the early years, even in some blinding downpours of rain, when you knew darn well that everything you stepped in wasn’t mud.
He loved to answer the phone at the shop, and people loved talking to him. He had a very unique talent….he never forgot anything. A customer would call, order parts, and when they would give him their address, he would sometimes say, I know where you live. You live right around the corner from that Jack In The Box chicken place in Northern Las Vegas. Or a person who hadn’t called in five years could call, Tom would answer and as soon as the customer spoke, Tom would recognize their voice and say, hey Kenneth we haven’t heard from you in a while. Most customers were amazed that he remembered them.
I think Tom took this website to a new level, so I hope we’ll all do our part to help it get more active in memory of him and Kathy.
Maybe someone else has a COOL memory of Tom to share………