Rick Neville has embarked on a career as a bon vivant and raconteur after retiring from a 35-year career as a federal prosecutor.  With a high-pressure lifestyle in the proverbial rear-view mirror he now has time to spend on his first automotive love, Austin-Healeys. If he’s not in the garage under the bonnet of his Bugeye Sprite or his 345 hp Ford-engined big Healey, he’ll be found in the library researching and writing articles for several Healey magazines.  

Cheryl Kelley is an artist who was classically trained in oil paint and has taken her passion and love of cars, muscle cars, and put her own stamp on the subject matter. She started painting at the age of ten and grew up in the formative 60s. She often paints on aluminum that plays well to the reflections on the surfaces of automobiles allowing the viewer to go deeper and to see something more in the form. The quality and mystery of these reflections take the viewer out of the mundane and in to a dream world. The nostalgia of the American dream along with cars makes her art unique and Cheryl adds her own feminine stamp on the subject matter taking the beauty of the object and going beyond the surface.

Peter Larsen is a life long gearhead. He serves as a Pebble Beach class judge and he also judges at the Concours d’Elegance at Chantilly outside Paris and at Schloss Dyck in Germany. Peter has a wide taste in cars, having owned automobiles as varied as a Bizzarrini, Facel-Vega, Duesenberg Model J and a number of Maseratis, including two Ghiblis and a 5000GT. His enduring fascination has been with French cars in general and Talbot-Lago in particular, including ownership of two T26 Grand Sports. He and Ben Erickson co-authored  the book Talbot-Lago Grand Sport: The Car from Paris and Jacques Saoutchik – Maître Carrossier. Peter also authored a book about Joseph Figoni. Today he’s here to share his and Ben Erickson’s latest venture, a three volume series titled The Kellner Affair, Matters of Life and Death.

Zack James Todd is an automotive photographer who works as the Digital Marketing Manager at Canep Design in Scotts Valley, California. Canepa Design is a leading automotive and race car restoration and maintenance facility where you’ll find the finest collector cars, race cars, classic, and sports cars in addition to transporters and much more. And Bruce Canepa is a past guest here on Cars Yeah. Zach has been an automotive enthusiast since he was a child and has shot photography for many notable magazines including Pete Stout’s 000 magazine, Vintage Motorsport, Classic Porsche, Robb Report and others. He travels to automotive events and records his adventures posting them on his Zach James Todd website. You’ll also see the many amazing images he has snapped at Canepa Design on their website.

Debbie Baker is the President of Cruisin’ For A Cure, the nation’s largest single day charity car show that raises money to find a cure for prostate cancer. She started the organization when her husband was diagnosed with cancer. Next to skin cancer, prostate cancer kills more men than any other cancer. Cruisin’ For A Cure provides men with free prostate cancer screening that catches the disease early and saves lives. Her event brings in more than 3,500 hot rods, trucks, customs, muscle cars, daily drivers, old and new. The cars cruise all day inside the OC Fair & Events Center in Costa Mesa, California. This year’s Meet & Greet will feature Chip Foose, Troy Ladd, Chris Jacobs, Ed Iskendarian otherwise known as Isky, Carson Lev, Larry Wood and others at the Meguiar’s Hangar. Debbie’s day job is in real estate.  

Bryan Davis is the Founder of the Malaise Motors Facebook group, 6,000 members strong and growing.  Malaise Motors is dedicated to the history, design, manufacture, and roadability of the unloved cars of the Malaise era that began in 1972 and ended in 1995. The groups seats are button tufted, roofs landau, and they roll on the shiniest genuine wire wheel covers available. The 1972 model years were hit with a drop in compression ratios and switched to net horsepower rating in preparation for upcoming emissions regulations. In 1996 OBDII diagnostic electronics came to play ending the Malaise era. When not managing Malaise Motors he is a realtor and property manager who enjoys driving classic Jaguar limousines. 

Tiffany Kruse is the Auction Coordinator at Dan Kruse Classics in San Antonio, Texas. She is the eldest daughter of Daniel Kruse, one of the original founders of the Kruse Collector Car Auctions. Tiffany spent her summers traveling with her father to auctions all over the U.S.A. She worked her first auction at the age of 5 in Auburn, running clerk tickets. She attended auction schools in Missouri and at Reppert and decided to use her knowledge to manage the business side in 1995 and moved in to events in 2002. Kruse Classics conducts four large collector car auctions per year in San Antonio, Austin, Midland, and Houston, Texas. Tiffany is also a member of the International Society of Appraisers. Her father Dan Kruse is a past guest of mine here on Cars Yeah.

Chris Duke is the creator, executive producer and host of Motorz TV, a half hour syndicated television series available to over 200 million television households in the US and Canada, plus online at YouTube, iTunes, Roku, and more. He also reviews cars for Duke’s Drive and talks tech in Duke’s Tech. This year will mark the 100th episode and 10th year of his Automotive Improvement® show. Congratulations! Chris is a true automotive enthusiast with more than 31 years of experience in hands-on vehicle customization and an 18 year veteran of the automotive industry. Previously he served as a magazine editor, as well as the host and co-writer for Auto Center, a web series produced for Mobil 1.

c are full-time YouTubers and co-founders of Ideal Cars, a premium automotive education platform that’s shifing the way the next generation of car enthusiasts buy, sell, and drive their next Ideal car and do it for free. Trav’s build his career in the automotive industry by following his love for anything mechanical. He’s a Certified Audi Master Technician who thinks like an engineer. Brad has worked in the tech industry helping build several notable Seattle start-ups but it’s his passion for automobiles and the Art of the Deal that drove him to connect with his buddy Trav. The two started flipping cars and decided to combine their skills to create Ideal Cars on YouTube. They create 30-minute Vlogs about buying, fixing, selling, tutorials, and trips around their passion for automobiles. 

Bryan McCarthy is an automotive blogger at Bearded Mug Media. His is a site where Bryan combined his passion for photography and writing about automobiles and as Bryan says, “Where the shutter hits the word.” Bearded Mug Media is an amalgam of his two joys with the beard on his face and a perpetual cup of black coffee that follows him around. He attends as many car-related events as possible and brings them to his website and social media platforms to share his “fly on the wall” approach to capturing the cars and people who share his passion and share his interpretations of these events. Bryan’s full time job is a police officer in Jew Jersey.