I am a firm believer that some people are born with a gift or a natural ability to do things that many others can’t or can’t do as well. I have always thought it would be marvellous to play a musical instrument well, excel at sport, have a great voice or, in the case of Tom Fritz, to paint superbly. Maybe it’s in your genes, but Tom says that his older brother and younger sister are not artistic at all. Tom’s father was a clever engineer who worked for Lockheed Martin’s ‘Skunk Works’ on its U-2 and SR-71 spy planes and yet Tom struggled with the sciences at school, but had this wonderful artistic bent. So, who knows where these talents come from?
Tom, now 64, has a degree in art, is a member of the Automotive Fine Arts Society and has been honoured with multiple prestigious art awards. He recently made the news because he painted the cars for the US Postal Service’s latest range of stamps titled Pony Cars Forever, featuring a 1969 Mustang Boss 302, a 1969 Camaro Z/28, a 1969 AMC Javelin SST, a 1970 Challenger R/T and a 1967 Mercury Cougar XR-7 GT.
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