Dan Kruse is the owner of Dan Kruse Classics in San Antonio, Texas. Along with his daughter Tiffany and their team they conduct four collector car auctions per year: San Antonio, Austin, Midland, and Houston, Texas. In his past Dan was part of Kruse International that sold several billion dollars in collector cars. That business was sold to ITT, then eBay, and now Auctions America, a division of RM Auctions. Today, at Dan Kruse Classics he and his team have over 200 years of experience making dreams come true for sellers and buyer of collector vehicles. Dan is also the Presidents and CEO at Kruse Asset Management where he works in the oilfield business helping companies buy and sell equipment and vehicles in the oil industry.

Eric Danetz oversees U.S. print, digital sales, marketing, and live media at Fortune and Money at Time Inc.. Prior to his current role he was the Chief Revenue Officer at Defy Media where he was in charge of U.S. sales, marketing, and strategy. Fortune and Money often cover the enormous and important automotive markets in business and the collector car hobby. Eric is an enormous automotive and watch enthusiast who’s true passion is behind the wheel of a race car on the track with DeMan Motorsport.

Carl Reese is an American endurance driver who has set more transcontinental driving records than anyone else since Erwin “Cannonball” Baker. Carl and this team set six world records in 2015 over a seven month period with the most notable being a solo motorcycle “cannonball” traveling from Los Angeles to New York. Carl did that run in 38 hours and 49 minutes. He holds the Guinness World Record for the shortest charging time to cross the U.S.A. in an electric vehicle among his many records. One of the wonderful things Carl does is to partner with the Motorcycle Relief Project where he helps our military veterans suffering from PTSD and other injuries to heal and recover.

Malcolm Johnson is the CEO at BrynDana International where they manufacture and sell ColorBond. Colorbond is a revolutionary molecular bonding paint that penetrates deep in to plastic, vinyl, and leathers. Available in 178 OEM colors you can easily and quickly restore or change the color of leather, carpet, plastics, or metal in automobiles, trucks, cars, boats, and motorcycles with factory-look results. In 2004 ColorBond earned two world-wide performance specifications from Ford Motor Company. Some of their customers include Ford Motor Company, LMC, Corvette America, Classic Industries year 1 and tier one manufacturers Johnson Control and Visteon.

Jim Morris is the Managing Director of Lifeline Fire & Safety Systems, founded in 1994, located in Coventry, England. They are the leading manufacturer of fire suppression and safety equipment in the motorsport and defense sectors. He is also the Managing Director of Old Hall Performance, a European distribution business specializing in high performance U.S.A. brands including Red Line Synthetic Oil, Flowmaster, Heatshield, MAC’s Custom Tie Downs, Gold Plug, BSCI seating, and more. He is the Chairman of the Motorsports Industry Association and the Governor of the Priors School. Jim is an amateur racer, enthusiast, and collector.

Michael Silverman is from Scottsdale, Arizona where he is the owner and publisher at Vintage Motorsport magazine, the journal of motor racing history. He’s been racing vintage cars for over 16 years and his publication is known as the go-to magazine and website in the vintage motorsports world. He’s been a journalist his entire life working having worked in the showbiz trade and other venues and then in 2002, following his passion for historic race cars, he joined Vintage Motorsports as the general manager. Then in 2012 he purchased the publication. I’m a long time fan and subscriber to Vintage Motorsport magazine and if you love old race cars, you’ll love it too.

Alex Riberas is an international motorsports racer driver from Barcelona, Spain who is currently racing with Team Seattle Alex Job Racing in a Porsche 911GT3R. His teammates are Ian James and Mario Farnbacher who are both past guests here at Cars Yeah. Alex started racing karts at the age of 12, then Formula Renault in Europe. He became a Porsche Motorsport Junior racer and competed in Porsche Carrera Cup and Supercup. He’s raced at the 24 Hours of Daytona, 12 Hours of Sebring and Petit Le Mans. He’s the first Spaniard to win a Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup race. Since founded in 1997 Team Seattle, founded by Cars Yeah guest Don Kitch and Alex Job Raising has raised over 6 millions of dollars for Seattle Children’s Hospital and Alex helped raise $500,000 of that in his efforts with the Heart of Raising and Team Seattle.

Boris Said is an American race car driver from California who’s been racing for over 30 years. His father was Bob Said, a Formula One race driver and a U.S. Olympic bobsled driver. In his early days Boris raced motorcycles, then SCCA in the late 80s and from there he moved to the IMSA series in a BMW M3. He’s won the 24 Hours of Daytona, the 12 Hours of Sebring and the 24 Hours of Nürburgring. Boris has raced in NASCAR in the Craftsman Truck Series, and in cars as well and he has raced in the American Le Mans Series and he also competed in the X Games and the Baja 1000. Endurance, off road, touring cars, Boris has raced them all. Boris is a partner in a California BMW and VW dealership and he is the co-owner at K1Speed, a nationwide business with 34 indoor karting tracks.

Ed Archer has been an automotive enthusiast for over 50 years who has run an automobile appraisal company since the 70s. He is the past President of the Model T ford Club of America, past President of the Bay Area Horseless Carriage club, Mid Peninsula Old Timer Auto Club, head Class Judge at a number of Concours d’Elegance events and co-Founder of the Annual Santa Clara Valley Model T ford Club 200 Mile Cross Country Endurance Run. He’s authored numerous articles in national automobile magazines and Ed was awarded with a Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2005 he was inducted in to the Model T Ford Speedster and Race Cars Hall of Fame. More than anything Ed loves driving old cars.

Mario Farnbacher is from Lichtenau, Germany. He’s an international motorsports racer who is currently racing with Team Seattle Alex Job Racing in a Porsche 911GT3R. His teammates are past Cars Yeah guest Ian James and upcoming guest Alex Riberas. Mario comes from a racing family and started in karting when he was just six years old. He’s raced in the ADAC Formula Masters Series, GT Masters series in a Ferrari 458 GT3 and a Porsche 997 GT3 R. He’s run in the American Le Mans Series, 24 Hours of Nürburgring, the Sebring 12 Hours, the Tudor United Sportscar Championship, and the Lexus RC-F GT3 prototype in the VLN Series. Team Seattle, founded by Cars Yeah guest Don Kitch and Alex Job Raising has raised millions of dollars for Seattle Children’s Hospital since founded in 1997.