He graduated in 1964 from Van Nuys High School, 28 miles from his surfing haunts at Manhattan Beach.
He began collecting woodies, and figures he ended up owning 14 of them in the 1960s.
He went into the National Guard, worked for a shopper newspaper, moved to Maui, etched glass mirrors and then began renovating woodies. He moved to Tacoma in 1992
In 1993, he opened his woody-renovation shop, and became famous for his excellent work, and before retiring, was making woody panels for the popular 1949 to 1951 Ford woodies. He sold the panels for $13,000 to $18,000 a set.
Over the past three decades, Rick “Mack” McCloskey has earned a national reputation restoring vintage “woodie” station wagons, known for their characteristic wood paneling, to pristine condition in his Tacoma garage. In car-restoration circles, the man professionally known as Rick Mack is considered a “real artist.”
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Purely by happenstance, I discovered the new resurgence and wonderful energy levels of the evening car culture on Van Nuys Boulevard during the late spring of 1972.
Since I had just completed several years of photography in the Art Department of California State University at Northridge, it was an easy step to assign myself the task of capturing what I could of the essence of the boulevard scene. This might also be great fun – after all, I grew up cruising that boulevard.
Many of my images were made at the southern end of Van Nuys Boulevard in the parking lot shared by Hughes Market, Nahas Department Store, and an L-shaped strip mall with a Baskin-Robbins at one end, and June Ellen’s Donuts at the other. The lot served as both an easy turn-around to cruise back north on Van Nuys, and as a good place to park, show off your ride, and just hang out for a time with your friends. Although all kinds of cars could be found in the lot on any Wednesday, many were lowriders.
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