Cars Yeah with Mark Greene

Adam Carolla is a comedian, actor, podcaster, radio personality, TV host and New York Times best-selling author. Add to all this Adam’s also a vintage racer. You will find the Ace-Man Adam on line at AdamCarolla.com, The Adam Carolla Show where you can listen to him weekly on his podcast Car Cast Show.com that you will find on his website, iTunes or the Adam Carolla Mobile App. He recently produced the film Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman and it’s available on DVD at Amazon or you can watch it on Amazon Prime. Today, one lucky Cars Yeah subscriber is going to get an autographed DVD of this awesome film. His co-host on CarCast is Matt D’Andria who had also been my guest here on Cars Yeah.

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Craig Booth and his wife Pamela are automotive ceramic artists who put their talents to work creating sculptures of cars and the characters who drive them. His Car-Toons company is a platform for his studio and on line business where Craig views cars as unique machines with lives of their own. Their whimsical, beautiful works of art are often made-to-order and customized to match his automobiles, bikes, boats, and even the people who own them. The details are so precise in their pieces that they get down to automotive specifications and even their customer’s eye colors. I own some of Craig’s work and they are spectacular.

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Bob Ingram is a General Partner at Hatteras Venture Partners, a venture capital firm that invests in early stage life science companies. Prior to joining Hatteras he was CEO at Glaxo-Wellcome. His passion for automobiles has spanned his life and his success in business lead him to collecting car, more specifically Porsches. The Ingram collection is focused on preserving automotive history. He often drives, shows, and shares his cars and many are featured in the book Porsche Unexpected from Coachbuilt Press. It’s a wonderful collection of photos by Michael Furman in collaboration with Randy Leffingwell and Cameron Ingram. Cam is Bob’s son, a past Cars Yeah guest, who runs Road Scholars where they acquire, restore and sell vintage Porsches.

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Paul Cain began his career at TRW Space and Defense as an industrial engineer before transitioning to TRW Automotive, working in program management in the early launch of automotive airbag crash sensors and airbag inflators. He was TRW's Director of Operations for TRW Steering and Suspension in Sydney, Australia before moving to BEI Duncan Electronics in 1999 as Director of Sales, Marketing and Program Management. He was also General Manager of Piher Sensors and Controls, North America. Paul is a committed volunteer during the Monterey car week. He serves as both the BMW CCA chief Concours judge for Legends of the Autobahn and as Co-Chairman for the Pebble Beach Concours d’ Elegance Class Hosts. Paul has said many times: ‘Came to see the cars, returned to enjoy the friendships.’

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Bill Fleischman is the Chairman of the Board and CEO at W/F Investment Corporation and W/F Classic Cars in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 2008, W/F Classic Cars specializes in the acquisition, restoration, and sale of unique collector cars best described as exotics and post war classics. Future plans include a new facility where there will be a showroom, automotive storage facility for customer’s cars, and a clubhouse. In addition to a safe place to store vehicles an exclusive clubhouse will provide collectors with an automotive themed environment where they will enjoy their cars with like-minded enthusiasts.

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Chad McQueen is a race car driver, actor, film producer, and consummate automotive enthusiast. He has raced in many forms of motorsports including Motocross, the Baja 1000, SCCA, Vintage events, and others. He’s a big fan of early Porsches and still owns and drives his father’s 1958 Speedster in the hills around Los Angeles. It was the first new car his father purchased. Most recently Chad was a producer on a feature documentary titled Steve McQueen, The Man & Le Mans. It’s the story of a life changing passion for racing and his father’s involvement in the making of the iconic 1970 movie Le Mans. This film interweaves stunning new footage and private recordings with original interviews telling a behind-the-scenes story about risking everything to pursue a dream.

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Norman Mayersohn spent 11 years at The New York Times, where he served as the deputy editor of the paper’s Automobiles section. At The Times, he was responsible for assigning and editing articles that covered a broad array of topics, including new model reviews, technology, environmental issues, travel, and motorsports. Norman also led the expansion of Autos coverage to online platforms, including a blog, email newsletter, social media outreach and real-time coverage of key events. Norman’s first journalism job was at Car Craft magazine, a Petersen Publishing title in Los Angeles where his office was just down the hall from Hot Rod magazine.

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Antonio Brunet is the President of Motostalgia, an auction company that specializes in offering rare and collectible automobiles, procuring consignments and collections from around the globe. The company is based in Austin, Texas, with offices in Mexico City and Monte Carlo. Motostalgia is one of the few premier auction companies to bring international offerings to the U.S. market. The company is comprised of a group of motorcar enthusiasts, nostalgic about the fine automobiles of the past, and passionate about the future of the collector car industry. Now the official partner of SVRA, Motostalgia provides the true enthusiast the opportunity to enjoy two of the most exciting experiences in motorsports: auctions and vintage racing!

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Josh Lange studied Mechanical Engineering in college before transferring to Savannah College of Art and Design. There he had an opportunity to design and build the EXO Spider, which debuted at the Amelia Island Concours in 1999. Since then he’s worked on numerous automotive design and build projects including the Pangea one-off, a SEMA show car in 2003. Since then the Thomassima IIII project with Tom Meade, and a re-body of the Pangea have been on his plate. His LCIII Spider was built to showcase the evolution of his design after four years of working with the master Tom Meade of Modena, Italy, who was mentored by the maestro Medardo Fantuzzi.

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Petr Milerski is the Co-Founder and CG Supervisor at Unique & Limited – Fine Art Collectibles in Prague. Born and raised in the Czech Replublic, Petr started his career in computer graphics at 17 and after graduating from the University of Ostrava he began a career that combined his passion for automobiles with his skills using computers. He works with Cars Yeah past guest Jan Rambousek where they create advanced graphics of legendary racing and sports cars including period correct scenes producing limited edition prints. Their mission is to re-energize inspiring stories from the past by using modern technology to create premium large-scale prints, allowing present and future generations experience history like never before.

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Don Panoz is the Chairman of Braselton, DeltaWing Technology Group and managing partner of DeltaWing Racing Cars. They provide a wide range of design, engineering, manufacturing, and transportation technologies solutions committed to delivering fuel efficient, emissions-reducing technologies that benefit everyday drivers and commuters. He is also chairman of the board of NanoLumens, designers and manufacturers of large-format LED display solutions. In 2013 Don became the 29th inductee into the Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame. In 2014 he was the recipient of the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America’s Bob Russo Heritage Award.

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Dave Laskowski is the President of On-Site Gear in Phoenix, Arizona where they are an official distributor for the complete line of PitStop brand furniture. He’s worked in the construction business and decided to combine his talents with his passion for cars and opened PitStop. This race-themed furniture brings a very cool automotive look of your office, den, home, and garage. Designed with unique automotive features like shocks and wheel designs remind you of the automobiles you love to be around. 

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David Zubick owns and runs Racing Adventures with track locations in Los Angeles, Phoenix, Houston, and Toronto. Under the supervision of skilled and trained driver coaches you can drive on racetracks in high performance sports cars including Porsche, Ferrari, Lamborghini, and Cobra or you can drive actual racecars. They offer many different motorsports programs including one or two day lessons, high performance driver education, corporate events, supercar lapping sessions and more in the vehicles of your dreams.

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Shane and Karen Mustoe are the owners of Brighton Motorsports in Scottsdale, Arizona. There they offer over 20,000 square feet of showroom, mechanical service, and repair plus a restoration facility for modern day and collector cars. At Brighton you’ll find a huge selection of newer sports cars and exotics along with vintage and classics along with motorcycles and Morgan three wheelers to all marques with a special emphasis on European cars. There’s even a cool gift shop.

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Kai Goddard is the Director of Business Development and Marketing and the Lead Professional Driver at Inde Motorsports Ranch in Willcox, Arizona. He has 21 years of experience racing sports cars, as an accomplished endurance racer with Ford, Lexus, BMW, and other marques. He has raced short track stock cars and open wheel Formula Cars. Kai has been driving professionally since 2002 with all auto manufacturers, launch events, press reveals, live stunt shows and car commercials. He was an instructor with Skip Barber and AMG Driving Academy. His father, Geoff Goddard, was a former 2-time World Superstox champion and former factory BMW touring car driver. Inde Motorsports is also a proud sponsor of Concours In The Hills that takes place this weekend in Fountain Valley, Arizona.

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Ken Johnson is the owner of Signature Graphics located in Scottsdale, Arizona. Founded in 2008, Signature Graphics is dedicated to bringing unique and custom designs to people and their vehicles. As an authorized provider of 3M, Oracal, Hexis, and Avery films he and his team use digital-format printing and they specialize in full vehicle wraps, exotic car wraps, truck wraps, signs, banners, clear body protection, and more. They use state of the art technology along with their talents to create one of a kind wraps for your special vehicles, both private and commercial applications. Signature Graphics is also a proud sponsor of Concours In The Hills that takes place in Fountain Hills, Arizona this weekend.

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Sarah Boothby is in charge of public relations for Gateway Classic Cars, the world’s largest classic car company located in St. Louis, Missouri. Their headquarters features 126,000 square feet of all things cars including an in house theater, gift shop, and lots of cars. There they sell collector cars for private owners and have consigned over 6,000 vehicles in over 13 years in business. A visit to their website provides you with access to their massive selection of collector cars for sale. Buyers from all over the world have purchased from their website.

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Barrie Wills has spent over 50 years in the global automotive industry. His first book, John Z, the DeLorean and Me: Tales from an insider published by DeLorean Garage, is a unique look from the perspective of the longest serving employee of DeLorean Motor Cars Limited. His tale focuses on the years during the troubles in Northern Ireland when the production of the DeLoren took place. Barrie has worked for and with Jaguar Cars, Reliant Motor Company, Lotus, Rover, Kia, Fiat, Lamborghini, and many others throughout his life.

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Rick Roso is the Press, Public Relations and Editorial Director at Lime Rock Park in Northwest Connecticut. Lime Rock is one of the most iconic racetracks in the United States and arguably one of the best in the world. Rick’s been writing professionally since 1988 and some of his work included writing, reporting, and editing for the world’s largest racing school, Skip Barber. He’s a racer who loves to get out on the track and go fast. He worked in the cable television industry, radio trade newspapers, and written expository and technical pieces for Porsche, automotive think tanks and the aviation industry.

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Michael Stoops is the Senior Global Products & Training Specialist at Meguiar’s car care company. He helps Meguiar’s staff and customers become more skilled with their detailing utilizing an extensive line of car care products. In almost every country throughout the world Meguiar’s is used by millions of devoted customer and enthusiasts to keep their vehicles looking new. You’ll find Michael on live shows, television, at events, podcasts, the radio, and more, sharing his vast knowledge of the brand and how to use the products offered at Meguiar’s.

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Paul Kramer runs AutoKennel with his father Ed. AutoKennel is in Costa Mesa, California. Paul and Ed specialize in consignment programs helping individuals store, display, market, and sell their automobiles. They assist in brokering sales, vetting buyers, protecting sellers, all in a friendly relaxed environment. There facility is a safe place for people to store their cars while they are trying to sell. While you can find almost any marque at AutoKennel, they specialize in vintage Porsches.

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