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Tony Parella is the owner of SportsCar Vintage Racing Association, SVRA. After 30 years of success in the telecommunications industry he shifted his career focus to his true passion: auto racing. He raced dirt ovals as a young man and today Tony focuses on vintage racing. Since his acquisition of SVRA Tony has transformed it from a club racing group in to a full-fledged business with a national platform. In 2016 the SVRA will present 16 race weekends at all the major American road courses including Sebring, COTA, Sonoma, and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

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Brian Redman participated in 358 races in his professional career. He haled from Great Britain and was victorious, outright or in his class, in 94 of those races. He finished in the top three 177 times. His tally of classic long-distance victories included the Targa Florio, Daytona 24 Hours (three times), Sebring 12 Hours twice, Nürburgring 1000Km twice, and at the Spa 1000Km four times. He won four long –distance road racing team championships and five individual road-racing championships, the list goes on and on and on. He raced Formula 1, Formula 5000, and today Brian promotes and participates in historic race car events throughout the world.

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Alain Lévesque is a Canadian artists recognized by automotive enthusiasts throughout the world. He has painted posters for Barrett-Jackson, the New York City Concours d’Elegance in Central Park, Retromobile in Paris, and the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. His art is collected by celebrities including: Jay Leno, Jerry Seinfeld, Nick Mason and I’m proud to say several of his prints hang in my home as well. Alain’s work has been published in numerous international magazines and publications. Inspired by the Art Deco and Italian Futurism movement, his work has a style and look that is unique and wonderfully suited to automobiles old and new.

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Terry Kell owns and operates The Farm, located near Ogden in the rolling countryside of Eastern Quebec. The Farm is a gathering place for business owners and executives to meet, build relationships, and discuss ideas and targets. The Farm is also a place where Terry furthers his passion for automobiles. Art and The Automobile is an annual forum Terry conducts at The Farm where the new Callaway C16 supercar was unveiled and they raised thousands of dollars for local charities. His other signature event is The Art of Transformation that employs the innovation of automotive design. His latest addition to The Farm is Carriage House Fine Automobiles where collector cars will be offered along with a delivery experience like no other.

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Skip Barber is the President and the sole owner of the world’s most beautiful and historically significant motorsports and automotive venues Lime Rock Park. He started racing in 1958 and he won his first race and held 32 track records around the country. He founded the Skip Barber Racing School in 1975 and built it in to a premier organization that launched many professional driver’s careers. Skip sold the school in 1999 and in 1983 he acquired Lime Rock Park with six other investors. Since buying them all out the track and facility has undergone massive improvements to keep this iconic track on course in to the future.

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Todd Dakarmen owns L.A. Dismantler, your source for quality late model Porsche parts. He purchased his first Porsche at age sixteen and has taken apart more cars than most body shops. As a teen, when Todd would need parts for his Porsches, he would buy a wrecked car, use what he needed, and sell the rest for a little profit. Later in life he turned his hobby in to a full time business and Los Angeles Dismantler was born. Since its conception Todd has seen upwards of 5,000 Porsches cycle through his company.

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Todd Cooperider is the President of ESOTERIC - Fine Auto Finishing, which includes Esoteric Auto Detail, EsotericCarCare.com, and the Elite Detailer Academy based out of New Albany, Ohio. Over the years Todd has published hundreds of educational detailing articles, and has trained professional detailers from all around the world in his Elite Detailer Academy. He provides consulting support to OEM vehicle manufacturers and has a worldwide reputation and following in the Ferrari community providing technical support to Ferrari clubs and owners.

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Michael Zimicki, owner of Sliderule Motorsport Inc., is a driving coach who’s been building drivers in to racers since 1990. He’s worked with many great drivers including: Graham Rahal, Ryan Hunter-Reay, Nick Harvey, Ashley Freiberg, Pippa Mann, Danica Patrick, and many others. His approach to driver coaching is to pull all the tools necessary together that they need to achieve success. He coaches his drivers to be 24 hours a day athletes and helps them to understand the “why” and “what” they are doing and he plays an integral part of their team to achieve success.

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Jerry Haussler has owned and run Rallyebadge.com since 1998. He scours the world finding authentic vintage automotive rallye badges and automobilia for enthusiasts like you and me. After years of working in the technology sector Jerry decided to follow his passion for vintage cars and turned his hobby collection badges and other automotive memorabilia in to a business. If you own an older vehicle chances are Jerry has an authentic club or event badge that will be period correct to your vehicle. Years ago I purchased a 1972 Rallye badge for my 1972 Porsche, 911S from Jerry, and it added a very cool and unique period touch to the grill.

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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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Tommy Byrne has been a professional racer and operates a race driving and coaching service. Today Tommy runs Diablo Drift Driving Academy. It’s a mobile driving school for teens and adults where they teach advanced driving skills necessary to remain safe on the road. He designed the drift mechanism that can be taken to parking lots and tracks for teaching car control. In his racing career Tommy has five Formula 1 starts, tested for Marlboro McLaren Formula 1 Team, raced in Indy Lights, and he was the European FF 2000 Champion and British FF 2000 Champion. He’s also a double British Formula Ford Champion and winner of the William Hill Irish Sports Book of the year winner with his autobiography Crashed and Byrned.

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Frank Honsowetz is the President and General Manager at Ed Pink Racing Engines where he’s been since 2001. His career spans 40 plus years in the automotive and motorsports industry. Ed Pink Racing Engines has been engineering and building racing engines since 1965 in Van Nuys, California. Their projects cover everything from engineering, machine shops, particle inspection, fabrication, parts, dynamometer rooms, spin tron, to complete engine building and custom fabricating. They work on vintage engines, racing engines, street rod engines, along with design, testing, and complete engineering. One of their current clients is Singer Vehicle Designs, where their engines go in to Rob Dickinson’s creations.

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David Beattie is the Founder of Slot Mods Raceways. He and his team are dedicated to creating the finest, handcrafted, slot car raceways and dioramas in the world. From vintage to modern day circuits, for any type of vehicle from racing cars to tractor trailers to snowmobiles and more. Their bespoke, hand-crafted, 1:32 scale cars are fully functional wooden slot track raceways. Their work is enjoyed around the world in private homes, ultimate garages, museums, commercial trade shows and showrooms. 

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Allan Winn is the Director and CEO of the Brooklands Museum in Surrey, England. Brooklands is the birthplace of British motorsport and aviation. Allan is a New Zealander by birth who moved to the UK in 1974. He joined Brooklands Museum in 1989 as their Director. He is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, and a Liveryman of the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators and of the Worshipful Company of Coachmakers. A lifelong vintage car enthusiast, he actively drives a 1929 3-litre Bentley and is a former committee member of the Vintage Sports Car Club, having served in that capacity for 17 years. He is also an Honorary Member and past Chairman of the Aviation Club of the UK. 

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Ryan Noble is a vintage automobile expert and mechanic who tests, evaluates, and builds engines for collector cars and vintage race cars at Phil Reilly & Company in San Francisco, California. Phil Reilly & Company is well known in the vintage racing community as a premier go-to source for your vintage race car needs. Ryan and the talented team of craftsmen work on every kind of vintage race car imaginable. Ryan has been a Conservator for the LeMay Museum in Tacoma Washington and he cared for collector cars in a private collection as well.

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Nathan Merz is the owner and founder of Columbia Valley Luxury Cars. Their mission is to offer only the finest European cars that customers can trust are the best. Their areas of expertise include evaluating and assessing German and Italian marques and collector vehicle valuations. Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, Nathan is a die-hard car guy who’s figured out how to wrap his passion for cars in to his business. One of his favorite quotes comes from Steve Jobs... "I go the extra mile because it is what I love to do."

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Tom Voelk is an automotive contributor at the New York Times, The Seattle Times, and KING Television, the NBC affiliate in Seattle, Washington. His automotive reviews appear weekly in The Times, both print and web and his top-rated iTunes podcast “Driven” was the first ever to win an Emmy Award. He writes reviews about new vehicles for King and he shoots, writes, and edits all of his own videos. Tom’s known for his signature “TP Trunk Test”. He’s an avid runner and has competed in 40 marathons including eight Boston Marathons.

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Part Two of a Two Part Interview with Rob Dickinson is the owner of Singer Vehicle Design in Southern California. At Singer, Rob and his team build bespoke vehicles starting with older Porsches and reimagining them by completely customizing the cars to unbelievable detail. The cars are literally restored, reimagined, and reborn. The level of thought, design, engineering, and detail that go in to each car is beyond most imaginations and is defined by a mantra that is spray painted on his shop wall: Everything is important. In his former career Rob was a musician and singer-songwriter playing in the English alternative rock band Catherine Wheel. Rob recently created a limited edition book about his builds titled: One More Than Ten: Singer And The Porsche 911, published by Stance and Speed.

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Rob Dickinson is the owner of Singer Vehicle Design in Southern California. At Singer, Rob and his team build bespoke vehicles starting with older Porsches and reimagining them by completely customizing the cars to unbelievable detail. The cars are literally restored, reimagined, and reborn. The level of thought, design, engineering, and detail that go in to each car is beyond most imaginations and is defined by a mantra that is spray painted on his shop wall: Everything is important. In his former career Rob was a musician and singer-songwriter playing in the English alternative rock band Catherine Wheel. Rob recently created a limited edition book about his builds titled: One More Than Ten: Singer And The Porsche 911, published by Stance and Speed.

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Kevin Cornish is the Executive Director of the Arizona Concours d’Elegance, a premier event held at The Arizona Biltmore in Scottsdale. This prestigious concours kicks off a week of auctions and events that are held every year at the end of January. Kevin has been restoring and collecting automobiles for the past 15 years and has a particular affinity for pre-war classics and automobiles that were “ahead of their time in their time”. The mission of the Arizona Concours is simple - produce an event that would become recognized worldwide as a serious Concours and to raise significant monies for a children’s charity. I’m proud to say that Cars Yeah is a sponsor of this fantastic event. You can learn more about the concours at ArizonaConcours.com

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Peter Mullin is the Co-Founder and Chairman of The Board of M Financial Holdings Incorporated, a network of independent firms that serves the financial and life insurance needs of corporations and executives. His lifelong romance with the automobile, particularly French automobiles, culminated in the Mullin Automotive Museum in Oxnard, California. He owns one of the finest collections of French cars in the world and the museum is a tribute to these cars in a spectacular setting for the public to enjoy. Peter sits on the Petersen Museum Board of Directors along numerous other organizations, universities, and groups. In 2015 Automobile Magazine elected Peter as their Man of the Year for being the driving force of the newly redesigned Petersen Automotive Museum and his donation of $15 million to the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.

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Brian Bonner is the president at BRM, Bonner Race Marketing. After a career racing motorcycles and cars from Formula Fords, IMSA Camel Lights, IMSA GTP, to IndyCar, ARCA, and NASCAR, today Brian helps ensure that the most deserving drivers and teams get their shot at the top. He encourages brands and corporations how to build powerful campaigns around world-class athletes and their driving talents. BRM helps clients benefit from their unique attributes in motorsports to achieve positive and measurable business results.

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Martyn Schorr is the Editor at Car Guy Chronicles, an automotive enthusiasts blog site. For over 20 years he’s conceptualized and produced successful automotive enthusiasts newsstand magazines and niche market books. He was a media relations representative on the East Coast for Buick Motor Division for 18 years. He’s an award winning author and his latest book, Ford Total Performance, covers Ford’s legendary high-performance street and racing cars. It was published by Motorbooks. Martyn is also the Chief Communications Offers for the Sarasota Café Racers, car guys who lunch!

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Charlene Bower is the founder of Bower Motorsports Media.  She produces quality motorsports media supporting events, races, and companies in the 4X4 market. Her properties include: Bower Power Hour, Racer Marketing School, Race Team Store, I’m Not Just a Girl, Bower Media Promo Gifts, Shirt & Swag Club, Shirt & Bling Club, InspirationalDirt, Month of Cause, and Offroad Newswire. You will usually find Charlene at off road events every weekend working to get the photos and the stories to bring the love of motorsports back to those that can’t attend the events.

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Mitch Williams is the President and CEO of Restoration Parts Unlimited. His company consists of six brands that manufacture and distribute aftermarket restoration products. They include: Trim Parts, Parts Unlimited, The Right Stuff Detailing, SoffSeal, First Place Auto Products, and Mr. Mustang. Mitch served on the SEMA Board of Directors for 12 years where he was the SEMA Chairman in 2005 through 2007. He also ran a conglomerate of companies for Pilot Automotive, a supplier to AutoZone, Walmart, Sears, Advance, O’Reilly’s, Amazon, and Pep Boys.

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Fireball Tim operates the Fireball Malibu Vlog, an automotive beach life reality series starring Hollywood car designer, author, and award winning filmmaker Fireball Tim and his amazing bride, Kathie Lawrence. They film their daily activities driving cool cars and living the automotive beach life. Fireball’s been a filmmaker, television host, and car design expert for over 25 years on the Speed Channel, Discovery, Velocity, and Monster Garage. His over 400 films can be found on YouTube, Amazon, The Auto Channel, and more. He’s also the host of The Malibu Cars & Coffee.

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Preston Lerner is a published novelist and award-winning journalist based in suburban Los Angeles. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Sports Illustrated, Wired, Men’s Journal, Smithsonian, Travel & Leisure and numerous other national magazines. He’s also a longtime contributing writer for Automobile Magazine. His first non-fiction book, Scarab, was published by Motorbooks International in 1991. His first novel, Fools on the Hill, was published by Pocket Books in 1995. More recently, he was the co-author of Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman, published by Motorbooks in 2009. Automobile racing is Preston’s passion and he club-races with the Sports Car Club of America and National Auto Sport Association. We talk about his latest book, Ford GT: How Ford Silenced the Critics published by Motorbooks.

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Renny Doyle is the owner of Detailing Success located in Big Bear, California. He began his detailing journey at the young age of 13. He is a master level detailer in the automotive and private/corporate jet industry. He and his team have worked on some of the finest and most unique automobiles and aircraft around the world. He also operates a training, mentoring, and coaching business helping novice and professionals sharpen their detailing skills. He has cared for automobiles at numerous auctions, museums, private collections, celebrities, and cared for the nation’s Air Force One.

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Marc Goulet is the Principal at Melbourne Consultancy in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. His company helps others in the design and analysis of automotive fluid systems. Melbourne's primary focus is designing components and systems that are involved in lubricating and/or cooling engines, transmissions, transfer cases, differentials, and electric motors, as well as power hydraulics for actuators. They study, design, write, test, and provide assistance to major players in the automotive industry including BMW, Chrysler, Mercedes-Benz, Ferrari, McLaren F1, and many, many others. His mantra is, “Anything almost right is wrong.”

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Nate Tennis is the lead instructor at DirtFish Rally School in Snoqualmie, Washington. At DirtFish they build rally cars and teach people how to drive them. They create custom security programs, hold corporate events, and they know how to have fun driving in the dirt. They compete in the Cascadia International Rally Championship and the Red Bull Global Rallycross Lites series. Nate has won multiple two-wheel drive championships and is a respected veteran in the rally community. He’s been a professional driver and events manager, and has also competed in the Baja 1000.

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Based from a home office in Ontario, Canada on the north shore of Lake Erie, David Neyens combines his lifelong love of all things automotive with a background in history. He writes classic-car auction catalogues for a number of the top companies in the business today. David provides research services for owners and buyers of significant cars and offers an auction advisory service for sellers and buyers. Other activities include research and organizing sales of classic aircraft, warbirds, aircraft engines, and memorabilia for friends and clients. His favorite quote is, "For the tenacious, no road is impassable."

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Charlie Vogelheim has 30 years of automotive industry experience including roles as VP at and J.D. Power and as executive editor at both Kelley Blue Book and Motor Trend Auto Group. He is the principal of Vogelheim Ventures through which he is involved in a variety of initiatives including Motor Trend Audio, TPC Management, DrivingSales, RyanTech, and Webcars China.

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James Caldwell lives in Menlo Park, California and is an automotive artist who’s been focusing on painting cars since 2007 although he’s painted since he was a young boy. A graduate from Rhode Island School of Design, he followed in his father Jim’s footsteps, a renowned landscape painter. James passion for automobiles runs deep and his goal is to capture the complex reflections and distortions of light and color in the intricate surfaces. He’s been on Jay Leno’s garage, his art hangs in private collections around the world, and I discovered James at Concorso Italiano in Monterey during Car Week where he’s their official artist creating magazine covers, posters, and calendars.

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Carlos Salaff is Founder and Creative Director of SALAFF where they design and make high-performance hand built cars. Working at Mazda Design Americas from 2003-2012, he was instrumental in the creation of several concept and production vehicles. His works have been recognized by the Louis Vuitton Classic, LA Design Challenge, and the Grand Prix Du Design awards.

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Cameron Evans is the President of Red Line Synthetic Oil, a division of Phillips 66. He grew up in a family with a passion for racing and his late father was Steve Evans, motorsports broadcasting legend. Cameron was the editor of Popular Hot Rodding Magazine and host of their television show. He’s managed NHRA Pro Teams and worked for years in television production at Diamond P Sports. He’s raced motorcycles, sports cars, Formula Mazda, and today races in the BimmerWorld/Red Line Oil ChumpCar, NASA, SCCA, BMW CCA, and others.Cameron Evans is the President of Red Line Synthetic Oil, a division of Phillips 66. He grew up in a family with a passion for racing and his late father was Steve Evans, motorsports broadcasting legend. Cameron was the editor of Popular Hot Rodding Magazine and host of their television show. He’s managed NHRA Pro Teams and worked for years in television production at Diamond P Sports. He’s raced motorcycles, sports cars, Formula Mazda, and today races in the BimmerWorld/Red Line Oil ChumpCar, NASA, SCCA, BMW CCA, and others.

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Twas the night before Christmas, and upon my garage bench,
Not a tool was a spinning, not even a wrench.
The cars were all parked in their stalls with great care,
In hope that St Nicholas soon would be there.

••• 

This car guy was nestled all snug in my bed,
While visions of sports cars raced through my head.
And my wife in her overalls and I in my driver’s cap,
Had just parked our booties for a long winter’s nap.

••• 

When out on the driveway there arose a valve clatter,
I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.
Away to the garage I flew like James Hunt,
But I tripped on a floor jack and had quite a shunt.

••• 

The moon on the paint of my shiny car’s hood,
Had the luster of fresh paint on cars that are good.
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But a train of cool sports cars with a driver so dear.

••• 

He was a spirited old racer, so lively and quick,
I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick.
More rapid than racers his cars they all came,
And he honked, and blipped throttles, and called them by name!

••• 

"Now Porsche! Now, Ferrari! Now, Ford and Chevrolet!
On, BMW! On, Bugatti! On Aston Martin from the UK!
Drive Jaguar! Drive McLaren! Drive Lamborghini and Audi too!
Shift Tesla! Shift Morgan! Shift Mercedes and boy how they flew!"

 

The smell of spent race fuel lingered thick in the air,
And the marks of burnt rubber on my driveway were there,
So on to the driveway the marques how they flew,
It was a sleigh pulled by cars, driven by St Nicholas too.

••• 

And then, all a revving, I heard in the garage
The distinct double clutch of a red Viper Dodge.
As I poked in my head, he was turning around,
And in to my garage did St Nicholas pull up with a bound.

••• 

He was dressed like a racer, from his head to his foot,
And his race suit was tarnished with oil and black diesel soot.
A bundle of car parts he had flung on his back,
And he looked like a mechanic opening up his tool sack.

••• 

His eyes-how they twinkled! His dimples how quaint!
His cheeks were like chrome and his nose like metallic paint!
His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,
And the beard of his chin was as white as a headlight’s glow.

 •••

The exhaust from his tail pipes drifted through the night’s air
And he shut down the engines with a quick blip and a care.
His smiling face looked out, of his Bell helmet all round,
He shook when he laughed, like a V12 making sound!

••• 

He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old racer
And I laughed when I saw him, like a barn find car chaser.
A wink of his eyes were like the sparkle of chrome stars,
And I knew that this old jolly fellow really loved cars.

••• 

He spoke not a word, and delivered his treats,
He filled the glove boxes, the trunks and bucket seats.
And laying his wrench aside of his nose,
And giving a nod, in to his car he arose!

 •••

The cars they all fired up with a glorious roar,
And away they all drove right out my garage door.
How he yelled with excitement, as he drove out of sight,
"Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good-night!"

Thank you to Clement Clarke Moore for your Christmas inspiration.

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James Colborn is originally from the United Kingdom who resides in the United States. He’s a racer who after spending four years of high performance driving event (HPDE) days, his good friend, and fellow Cars Yeah guest Don Kitch, owner of ProFormance Racing School in Seattle Washington, handed James the keys to a BMW E30 PRO3 race car and said “Take a few laps.” James was hooked. Since then he’s raced all over the US. The past two years he’s developed the new SPEC E46 class on both the East and West coasts. He’s competed at the professional level in the Continental Tire Series, in the ST class with team BimmerWorld and Compass 360.

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David Schaeffer is the Executive Director at World of Speed Museum in Wilsonville, Oregon. His role is to oversee the museum’s mission of education and entertainment through the celebration and preservation of American motorsports. Before joining the museum David worked for the Children’s Cancer Association as the Chief Development Officer and he’s also worked in the headquarters for the American Cancer Society, Make-A-Wish Foundation, and the Muscular Dystrophy Association.

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Chris Gennone is the Managing Partner and Co-Owner of The Stables in Scottsdale, Arizona. The Stables is a premium storage facility where they help their customers sell, acquire, collect, and care for fine automobiles. Chris was a professional driver in the IMSA endurance racing series where he was also a chief driving instructor. From there he built the automotive consulting company CDI and raced in vintage racing events in many different race cars. Chris has been collecting, selling, and restoring classic cars and motorcycles for over 30 years.

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Shin Yoshikawa is a world-renowned cutaway artist, fabricator, photographer, and a concert pianist. His drawings are exacting details of the interior of automobiles down to every nut and bolt. He’s appeared on Jay Leno’s garage and his art hangs in shops, home, garage, and galleries around the world, including mine. In his automobile workshop titled Studio Time Capsule Shin is a master fabricator. For over 40 years he’s been involved in numerous automotive builds including concept cars, Toyota 2000 GTs, Panhards, Toyota FJs and more. Shin is a man of many talents including his skills at the keyboard as a concert pianist.

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Rachael Clegg is an artist who designs and creates unique motorsports themed nude calendars with a focus on racing, both the Isle of Man TT race and the famous Nurburgring race track. Her quirky, bold, artistic, and revealing calendars and prints have been featured in the German national daily newspaper Die Welt. Her Milestones calendar has become a cult piece and is a visual celebration of the renowned TT motorcycle event. Her Nurburgring calendar’s back-stories are detailed and historic and the images are witty, silly, and evocative. Her other art, Sound Stories, are paintings with a nod to motorcycle racing history. Rachael captures motorcycle sound waves translating them to paint on a canvas.

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Eric Shea owns PMB Performance in Sandy, Utah and started his business with a single pair of Porsche 914 brake calipers. His company rebuilds and restores brake calipers to their original state, using the same methods as when they were factory built. Intimately familiar with the correct plating techniques, his process brings parts back to their original condition. Eric restores parts for his customers and supplies exceptional resellers and restoration experts including: Stoddard, Ferrari parts for T. Rutlands, that Porsche guy Magnus Walker, Tony Samojen, and Max Sluiter with calipers for their customers and cars. The motto at PMB Performance is: "We don't rebuild... we restore".

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Mark Lewis spent 14 years as the Public Relations Representative and Special Events Coordinator at the Daytona International Speedway. Today he is an educator at a private school in Daytona Beach Florida and an automotive fine artist. His favorite subjects to paint are race cars and racing scenes. His art represents sports car racing at the highest professional level from Formula 1, Moto GP, historic racing cars and endurance racing where his unique style represents speed, color, light, and motion.

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Sal Fish is the retired CEO and President of SCORE International, the leading sanctioning body in the sport of desert racing. The SCORE race series includes the Baja 1000, Baja 500, San Felipe 250, Primm 300, Laughlin Desert Challenge and Las Vegas Terrible's Cup. He first raced in Mexico in 1970 and then started his entrepreneurial career in desert racing in 1973 when he was recruited by the late Mickey Thompson founder of SCORE International. Fish brought innovation to SCORE, organizing class rules, implementing safety procedures, and transforming the Baja 1000 into one of the most recognized motorsports events in the world.

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Patrick Long has been a Porsche factory driver since 2003. He is a three-time ALMS GT driver’s champion, class winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the Rolex 24 At Daytona, the 12 Hours of Sebring and Petit Le Mans. He is the only North American employed as a factory racing driver by Porsche and a class winner at the 2013 SCORE Baja 1000. In 2015, he raced with Patrick Dempsey in the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) and he drove with Team Falken Tire for selected events in the Tudor United Sportscar Championship. With California roots and a European racing pedigree, he is one of the top sportscar drivers of his generation.

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Hurley Haywood’s racing career goes all the way back to 1969 when he raced with Peter Gregg at Watkins Glen. They won that first race together that started a path in racing that’s unmatched. He built his career behind the wheel of a #59 Brumos Porsche, racing for the Jacksonville, Florida-based team that’s lasted over 40 years. The number of major race wins and championships he accumulated in his career makes him the most successful endurance racing driver in history. That record still stands today. Hurley has won IMSA Championships, The Daytona 24 Hours, Sebring 12 Hours, and the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the list goes on, and on. Awards include the Motorsports Hall of Fame, Florida Sports Hall of Fame, and many others.

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Ron Huegli is the Curator at World of Speed Museum in Wilsonville, Oregon. At World of Speed Museum, he and his team are dedicated to education and entertainment through the celebration and preservation of motorsports. As curator at World of Speed, Ron is responsible for the entirety of World of Speed’s motorsports collection. He acquires, cares for, develops, displays, and interprets the museum’s exhibits. He also works with a talented team on archiving, marketing, fundraising, volunteering, and educational programs. He’s raced nitro dragsters and Top Fuel racing and he drives the Tiki Warrior funny car.

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Nathan Riddle is the owner and host of the off-road adventure show, KrawlZone, which aims to take the adrenaline of extreme rock crawling and pump it into the vein of the off-road community. Nathan also has an acting background, works as a video game animator, is a professor at the University of Utah and is currently developing several additional off road shows as well as his first feature film. At a young age he learned to be a grease monkey and gained a love for classic cars from his father.

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Mike deJonge is the owner of Restoration Design, in Ontario Canada. The company designs and manufactures high-quality replacement sheet metal for vintage Porsche automobiles. There he and his team make replacement parts for Porsches including the 911, the 356, and the 914 models. They recreate hundreds of original parts for use when restoring older Porsche cars that range from body panels to gas tanks, door lock posts, and full hoods. In addition to new sheet metal parts they also sell original panels and mechanical parts for older Porsches with hundreds of parts in their growing inventory.

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Simone Schedoni is the President of Cuoio Schedoni Leather in Modena, Italy. He is the fourth generation of a family with a legacy as rich as the fine leather products they have produced for over 130 years. The Schedoni leather company began in 1880 when Celso Schedoni opened a small workshop in Formigine, Italy to make fine leather footwear. Fast forward to the mid 70s when the company was making fine luggage for Ferrari owners that lead to a relationship with Ferrari F1and a relationship that’s continued over 35 years. Today their leather goods can be found in marques including: Ferrari, Bentley, Lamborghini, Rolls-Royce, Pagini, Audi, Alfa Romeo, Maserati and more. 

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Alan Taylor is the owner of Alan Taylor Company located in Escondido, California. They are a full serviced automotive restoration business specializing in European and American models from the prewar era through the 1960s. Alan and his team are known for their work on Alfas, Aston Martins, Avions Voisin, Bugatti, Delage, Delahaye, and many other great marques. Their reputation for creating award winning automotive masterpieces with a focus on details and perfection is known worldwide. You’ve seen his work on concours lawns from Pebble Beach to Amelia Island. With over 50 years in the business, Alan has seen most every marque ever made roll through his shop. His motto: The impossible we do immediately. Miracles take a little longer.

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David Fetherston is the president of Fetherston Publishing in Sebastopol, California. He has evolved from journalist and photographer, to automotive history specialist to prolific author and publisher. David has over 40 book titles to his credit including his 1999 Automotive Book of the Year for American Woodys. His creations include, Heroes of Hot Rodding, Chrysler Concept Cars 1940-1970, Bonneville - A Century of Speed, and Fetherston's Treasure Box of Classic Woodys. Whether it's on paper, web-based or hands-on with a race team, David has contributed to automotive history and culture in a diligent effort to keep the facts straight.

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Jeremy Grenier lives in Charles Town, West Virginia and spends a lot of his time in his shop at Summit Point Raceway. He started racing in 1998 at the age of 23. He’s worked with an amateur Trans Am team and then a Grand Am AFT team. He’s been at Ski Motorsports since 2003 where he drives, builds, engineers, and redesigns all kinds of race cars from Formula Vee, Formula Ford, Formula Mazda, and a variety of customer cars. He’s received numerous racing awards including the 2014 Mark Donahue award from the Road Racers Drivers Club.

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Alexander Bermudez is a photographer with a passion for automobiles. He studied graphic design in England and photography at the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California. He’s been on assignments with Werks II Motorsports documenting their IMSA GT3 Challenge and ALMS campaigns and he’s spent lots of time shooting at many of the great road courses in America. He’s an avid racer in Porsche Owners Club events and won the coveted Rookie of the Year Award in their Cup series driving a Porsche Boxster. You’ll find him documented at Petrolicious in his Porsche 964 based hot rod 911 known at The Growler, where he also contributes to their road trip series.

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Yahn Janou is a fine artist who lives in Paris, France. He graduated in 1992 from Art Center College of Design with a degree in automobile design. Since 1993 he paints exclusively racing cars and racing scenes aiming to capture the excitement of the pits, qualifying and to convey the exuberance of teams and the intensity of the connection between man and machine. His paintings portray power, speed, technology, elegance, and the unique. He exhibits throughout Europe and the United states and has created posters for racing venues including The 24 Hours of Le mans as well as works for major automobile manufacturers.

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Toto Lassally is the CEO of Speedcom Communications, established in 1996, with offices in Florida and Spain. They are one of the worlds most recognized names in communications equipment for the motorsports industry. They provide racers and teams with state of the art products and accessories. In 2005 Speedcom became the official communications equipment supplier to Grand Am and today they also supply the Creventic International 24 Hours series. Toto is an active racer and holds many victories including the 24 Hours of Dubai and Barcelona and multiple podium finishes around the world. His latest venture with veteran racer Juan Carlos Leroux, is Roux Helmets with their innovative proprietary designs for comfort and safety.

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David Snyder is a fine artist who started drawing cars, airplanes, and trains at the age of six. He graduated from the Central Academy of Commercial Art in Cincinnati, Ohio and had a successful career in advertising as a designer, art director, and illustrator. His drawings and paintings portray memories of growing up with cars from the 50s through the American muscle car era. He’s known for his fine details of the periods he paints down to the signage, oil cans, and garage bays. He has self-published over 120 limited edition prints and his work has earned him numerous awards and hangs in prestigious private and corporate collections.

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Michael Stahlschmidt is the founder and current lead partner at Sideline Sports Photography. His work as a sports photographer has him traveling over 300 days per year, through over 15 countries and 35 plus states. Michael has covered racing series including Formula One, DTM, IMSA, WEC and Pirelli World Challenge. Sideline Sports Photography’s semi truck based mobile production and display vehicles debuted in 2001 and created the niche of onsite production, display and sales of imagery. He shoots for major corporations including Audi, Mazda, Momo, Spyder, Sonic Tools, and others, in addition to supplying Automobile, Motor Trend and Road & Track magazines.   Michael has worked as an official White House Press photographer and he is also the Official Photographer for the US Nationals and Olympic Soccer Teams Players Association, having photographed the last nine World Cups and past five Olympic games. In 2016, Michael will cover the entire IMSA calendar, as well as the 2016 Rio Olympic games.

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Tim Howe is the inventor and owner of Tire Wedgee. It’s an innovative solution to a nagging challenge for anyone who has ever washed their vehicle. Form follows function in the simplicity of his design of a product that stops your water hose from getting stuck under a tire while you are cleaning your vehicle. Tim designed this new product and is bringing it to market to help car lovers like you and me by making the washing and detailing experience much more fun.

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Winston Goodfellow is an award-winning automotive writer and photographer. Over the past twenty years his words and photos have been seen in more than 60 publications on several continents, and he has authored 14 books and private commission monographs. His last book, the critically acclaimed Ferrari Hypercars, was voted 2014's "Book of the Year" at the 24th annual International Automotive Media Competition. Winston has been a Chief Class Judge or Class Judge at many of the world's top concours including Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance and Concorso d'Eleganza at Villa d'Este in Italy. He has also advised numerous automotive collectors on the purchase or selling of their cars, and provided guidance on their collections.

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Egidio Reali is the Founder of MR Collection Models, located in Gerenzano, Italy near Lake Como. He started the company in 1988 at the age of 22. They produce exquisite hand built model cars in 1:43 and 1:18 scales. Their models are prized by collectors around the world and they have participated in the launch of new models by Lamborghini and Ferrari. Their brand has become a cult name among model car fans and they hold license agreement with the most prestigious automotive manufacturer around the world. His models are made facing the same ciritcal issues that major automotive groups face, just at a different scale.

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Baer Connard is the owner of ACE Performance a Massachusetts based Ariel Atom dealer and European car performance and service facility. Advanced Concepts Engineering, known as ACE Performance began as a vision to push the envelope in design and maintenance of unique, performance-oriented cars. They help owners of race cars, tuner cars, and daily drivers perform better, go faster, and be safer. In 2016 ACE Performance will join forces with Thompson Motor Speedway to run a North East Spec Race Atom series combining his passion and business selling and servicing the unique Ariel Atom car on the race track.

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Marty Fiolka is the President of The Rennsport Group PR and Marketing agency that he founded in 1995. His clients include Nissan, Infinite, Exxon, and Mitsubishi, to name just a few. He is the authoritative off-road racing historian, industry spokesperson, and author. He was inducted in to the Off-Road Motorsports Hall of Fame in 2014. Marty’s a seasoned off-road racer and has competed in many desert and short-course events, including 15 Baja 1000s. Marty just completed a new documentary film titled Baja Social Club and he just published a 532 page history book on McMillin Racing entitled Big Blue M the McMillin Racing Story.

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Rhonda Cahill works with her husband Scott at Expedition Overland, an adventure travel show that is sponsored by Toyota and General Tire. She competes and navigates with teammate Rachelle Croft in the Rallye Aiche des Gazelles in Morocco. Her racing team, Xelles Racing, competes in the longest, most difficult, all female off-road rally in the world. She races to bring awareness to sexual abuse with a mission to inspire women around the world with one simple message:  "You Are Loved." 

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Rachelle Croft, above at left, works with her husband Clay at Expedition Overland where she competes and drives in the Rallye Aïche des Gazelles in Morocco. Her racing team, Xelles Racing, competes in the longest, most difficult, all female off-road rally in the world. She and her teammate, Rhonda Cahill, partnered with Voice Today in 2014 to bring awareness and a voice to sexual abuse. In 2015, they again took to their mission to inspire women around the world with one simple message: You are loved.”

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Leslie Keno is the Co-CEO of the Keno Brothers Fine Automobile Auctions. Rolling Sculpture, The New York City Auction is their inaugural event that takes place on November 19 at Skylight Clarkson Square in New York City. Leslie and his brother Leigh are internationally recognized experts in their field. You’ll recognize them from their years on the TV show Antiques Road Show. These identical twins are bringing their expertise from decades of work in the arts and antiques world to the collector automobile world. Leslie spent over 30 years at Sotheby’s and has judged at events including Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance plus he speaks at classic car symposiums across the country advising collectors and institutions. Leslie has restored, raced, and collected historic cars throughout his life and served on numerous boards and committees.

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Leigh Keno is the Co-CEO of the Keno Brothers Fine Automobile Auctions. Rolling Sculpture, The New York City Auction is their inaugural event that takes place on November 19 at Skylight Clarkson Square in New York City. Leigh and his brother Leslie are internationally recognized experts in their field. You’ll recognize them from their years on the TV show Antiques Road Show. These identical twins are bringing their expertise from decades of work in the arts and antiques world to the collector automobile world. They judge at events including Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance and speak at classic car symposiums across the country advising collectors and institutions. Leigh has restored, raced, and collected historic cars throughout his life and served on numerous boards along with authoring books and articles.

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Bradley Farrell is the Chief Operating Officer and Technology Director for the Keno Brothers Fine Automobile Auctions, Rolling Sculpture The New York City Auction. The inaugural event takes place on November 19 at Skylight Clarkson Square in New York City. His background is in the digital marketing and technology and he’s created a proprietary multi-media experience unlike any other for the Keno Brothers Auction. This event will offer bidders a live, on-line bidding opportunity that is unique to auctions. Bradley has been a car collector for years and especially enjoys the hunt for barn finds. You may have enjoyed his Jaguar on display at The Quail last summer.

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Wayne Dempsey is the President of Pelican Parts located in Harbor City, California. Wayne started the company in 1997 with a goal to provide affordable European parts and accessories to enthusiasts worldwide. Wayne is a veteran Porsche enthusiast but his companies merchandise isn’t limited to Porsche. He offers parts and accessories for BMW, Mercedes, Audi, VW, Saab, Volvo, Mini and more. His on-line forum is well known in the automotive world as a knowledgeable place for answers to your automotive questions. Wayne’s goal is to provide parts to weekend warriors who strive to keep their cars looking and running well.

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Arie Luyendyk, Jr. is a race car driver who has an Indianapolis 500 start to his credit and has competed in four seasons of Indy Lights. He was named the most popular driver for four consecutive years and has competed in sports car racing, driving a Daytona Prototype in the 24 Hours of Daytona and the GT2 class in the 12 Hours of Sebring. He’s competed in of-road racing in Stadium Super Trucks and he owns and operates his own team in the TORC Series driving a PRO 2 class, sponsored by Hostile Wheels, having recently grabbing a Bronze at X Games in the off-road truck discipline. His father is two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Arie Luyendyk who has also been a guest here on Cars Yeah.

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Aaron Warkentin is the Curator at the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum located in Auburn, Indiana. There he and his team care for over 120 automobiles and related artifacts. The building itself is a piece of history as it was the headquarters of the Auburn Automobile Company from 1930 to 1936. Aaron’s previous careers include the National Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas and the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum in McMinnville, Oregon. His passion for all things mechanical and how their technologies affected social history culminate in his work at the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum.

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Nicole Meguiar Northcote is the Founder and Organizer of the Crossroads Car Show. Her goal has been to create car shows that truly unite all genres of the car hobby. She hosts events in Los Angeles, Riverside, and Orange County. After 18 years of handling the marketing at her family’s business, Meguiar’s she ventured out on her own quest. Her passion is raising money for Teen Challenge International where she raises money to help with drug and alcohol recovery programs. She is the daughter of that Car Crazy guy Barry Meguiar who is a past guest on Cars Yeah.

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Chris Considine is the CEO of CXC Simulations, a Los Angeles based company he founded in 2007 that builds full emersion automotive and flight simulators. Chris is a racer gone racing instructor to computer and graphic engineering expert. His simulators are sold all over the world to individuals and corporations. CXC is a high-tech engineering firm that as has revolutionized the design and manufacture of advanced personal racing simulation equipment. Professional racers including Stefan Johansson, Patrick Long, Justin Wilson, and Graham Rahal are just a few who use and praise his machines. Chris is the son of noted automotive journalist Tim Considine who’s also been a guest here on Cars Yeah.

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Larry Crane, who lives in Thousand Oaks, California, is the car guys car guy. He’s a fine artist whose artistry has been the design of automotive posters and publications. From the programs for Riverside Raceway in the Sixties, to editing and designing Ferrari magazines, his work at Auto Afficionado, a major redesign of Motor Trend in the Seventies to his founding, editing, and designing Vintage Racer magazine, and his days with David E. Davis Jr. at Automobile magazine, he’s had a creative hand in hundreds of projects. He is also a visiting professor of automotive design history at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Larry Crane is the quintessential Car Guy.

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Dave O’Connell is the Chief Designer at Katzkin Automotive Leather. He is a Los Angeles native and a graduate of Art Center College in Pasadena. His career includes working for Automobiles Peugeot and at the Centre Style Citroen in Velizy, just outside of Paris. He designed the Citroen AZ exterior and the initial concepts of their SM. He worked at Mitsubishi Motors Research and Design where he was the Chief Designer on the Eclipse, the 3000 GT, and their Montero Sport. David has served on the Art Center faculty since 2001 and their Mentor program. He’s a concours judge, enjoys surfing, and restoring and riding vintage motorcycles.

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Yves Morizot is the President of Stand 21, founded over 45 years ago in Dijon, France. Stand 21 is the world leader in head to toe, made-to-measure racing gear. Following the most stringent safety and medical standards, with over 150 employees, Stand 21 products are conceived, engineered, designed, and entirely hand crafted within their our own facilities. With a passion for safety Yves created Racing Goes Safer, Stand 21’s Safety Foundation, a non-profit organization with a primary purpose of promoting enhanced motorsport safety.

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Arie Luyendyk is known as The Flying Dutchman. He started racing in the early 70s winning the Super Vee championship in Europe and in the United States. He’s won endurance races at the 24 Hours of Daytona and the 12 Hours of Sebring and he’s driven in the International Race of Champions. With 17 starts, he’s a two-time winner of the Indianapolis 500 taking the checkered flag in 1990 and 1997 where his average speed of 185.981 miles per hour set a new record that stood for 23 years. In 2014 Arie was inducted in to the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America.

 

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Lou Carvell owns Lou & Co., a small New York based branding and design company. He studied at the School of Visual Arts and got in the advertising business and for years was an Executive Creative Director at some of New York’s leading ad agencies. He worked on campaigns for blue-chip companies including Smith Barney, Nestle, Rolls Royce and many others. He’s a passionate and life-long car collector and today he’s focusing his creativity and drive to express his love affair with the automobile in a dramatically graphic series aptly named Reincarnation.

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Victor Carrillo co-founded the ID Agency in Los Angeles, California in 2004 where he is the President. The ID Agency builds and promotes authentic brand connections with consumers in the automotive sector and beyond. They combine their extensive experience in digital, PR, photography, and video production to craft their client’s unique brand. They support major players in business including: MOMO, Pirelli, Kawasaki, Brembo, Carbon Revolution, CTEK, and Formula Drift. Their focus is growing broader audiences and greater awareness for their clients.

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Chris Stocker is an entrepreneur with over 35 years of successful sales, channel development, marketing, PR, and advertising. He’s an avid photographer and love shooting cars, primarily Porsches. He’s a Porsche Club of American member and an R Gruppe member and has recently launched a new Porsche focused product the Cup A Holder. He saw a problem with older Porsche cars lacking a cup holder so he designed and manufactures a proprietary product to solve the problem.

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