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Tom LaPointe - Racer

Hangin' on the HUMVEE in Korea

Tom with journalistic legend and famed Cannonball Run genius, Brock Yates

Tom with automotive legend,

Barry Maguiar, of SPEED TV's Car Crazy

The beauty of a great photograph and the beauty

of an exotic car stirs emotions. I have the pleasure of being able to spend time enjoying both. I grew up in Michigan near the Motor City. After attending the University of Nevada as a music major, I joined the Marine Corps as a combat correspondent. During more than seven years as a dedicated Marine, I won many publishing awards for photography, writing, and editing.

I met my wife (of nearly 20 years), Barbra, while serving in California. My career also took us to Japan and Washington, D.C. Following the service I started my own graphic design company, and worked as a technical research assistant at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

What led me to the auto industry is simply this: I love cars and love to serve and to solve problems. I have raced stock cars and sports cars and competed in Land Rover off-road competitions in Vermont and Colorado. I have been a pit official for the 24 Hours of Daytona and 12 Hours of Sebring, and a pit crewman for Indy and a Hooters Pro Cup races.

I worked in both sales and service management for one the largest luxury car groups in the world, where I competed in sports and stock cars, worked as a pit marshal for SCCA events and served in pit crews for Hooters Pro Cup and IRL events. I'm still active as an off-road instructor for Land Rover and HUMMER dealers and owners. I enjoy crawling an off-road vehicle through the most severe obstacles as much as heel-toeing sports cars into hairpin turns! I have been published as a freelance photographer in several regional and national publications, including duPont Registry and Makes and Models magazines.

Cars are often about dreams, and more specifically, fulfilling dreams. Working in the car busines has given me the opportunity to help hundreds of valuable clients realize their dreams, as well as allowed me to live my childhood dream of spending time on the track.

Livin' the Racecar dream

Tom & Barbra married 7/9/90

Tom with the Bugatti Veyron

Tom with a classic Maserati