Mike Key, long-time hot rodder and automotive photographer, passed away on 15 February. Mike’s illustrious career has been well documented over the years, most recently by CC in the April 2011 issue when we announced he was retiring on 30 March that year, his 65th birthday.
It was a teenage Mike’s TV repairman colleagues who spawned his interest in photography, and a subsequent change in employer exposed him to hot rods, joining local club, the Cam Followers, soon after.
one of the earliest members of the UK's NSRA Mike’s first flirtation with drag racing at Santa Pod came in 1972, and he was one of the earliest members of the UK’s NSRA, an association that recognised his outstanding contribution to hot rodding by inducting both him and wife, June, into…