OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – On most days, you can find Mike Cook keeping track of parts and labor at his dad’s custom car shop.
Cook is the office manager and promoter of a quiet business that’s made a lot of noise in the hot rod world over the years, and still is.
But before you take the measure of a man, you need to see more than just stature or stamina, to go beyond spit and polish, wet sand or dry.
“I don’t really care,” he insists now about his height, about four feet, or his dwarfism.
“It took a long time but I’m comfortable in my own skin.”
Cook is a fourth generation gear head who grew up with Moto and Super-Cross racing as well as street rods.
For him, going fast and doing dangerous things was just a matter of figuring out how.