Sparkky's Machine

F-100s are a Lifelong Favorite for This Enthusiast.

- Joe Greeves

TOBY SPARKS, FROM LOGANVILLE, GEORGIA, RUNS THE FAMILY CONSTRUCTION BUSINESS AND GREW UP WITH A LOVE OF VEHICLES, THANKS TO HIS DAD, JOHN SPARKS. He not only owns an impressive collection of vehicles but also his own automotive museum called Sparky’s Machines in Loganville.Toby’s very first vehicle at age 15 was a ’56 Ford pickup, purchased at the F-100 Super Nationals in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. He drove it all through high school and kept it until he was 29 years old. Marriage and family redirected his priorities, but now at 44, he smiles when he says he knows who has it, and he may still get it back someday. “I love the body style, everything from ’53 through ’56,” he tells us. To prove his point, he currently owns a ’53, two ’56s and this ’54 F-100. Pictured on these pages, his high-performance ’54 with its supercharged 351 Windsor was built in good friend Terry Boswell’s metal shop in Hickory, North Carolina.