Bud Perry’s chair still sits next to the counter. He started the Springfield tire-and-wheel shop back in 1958, a time when cars and racing were big.
Things have changed since the shop’s start. Local racing’s heyday zoomed into the past. Route 66 – where the shop has sat for decades – wandered to decline and then to resurgence. Bud left, too; he died in 2017.
But Mike Perry, his son, says sometimes it feels like he’s never left…