Thomas Hodges days on the racetrack resulted in him founding Ultimate Track Day. He and his team host automotive events at some of the finest racetracks including, Laguna Seca, The Thermal Club, and many others.

Douglas Gorney is an artist living in San Francisco. He works primarily in watercolor and ink, capturing San Francisco architecture, street scenes, and particularly its (re)emerging car culture.

Ken Gross is this year’s Concours Director at the Chattanooga Motorcar Festival. He is an award-winning automotive journalist and has contributed to almost every car magazine you’ve ever enjoyed reading.

Dick York is an Event Advisor for the Chattanooga Motorcar Festival. He's an ex-fighter pilot and races Ferraris and historic race cars. The need for speed may have been derived from flying Navy F4 jet fighters off of carriers in the Viet Nam war.

Kevin Caulfield is in charge of business development at the Ferrari restoration experts Motion Products. His role with the Second Annual Chattanooga Motorcar Festival has been to curate 14 special Ferraris that will grace the event and Kevin will be a docent for the VIP tours of these special Ferraris. 

Corky Coker is the Grand Marshal for the Second Annual Chattanooga Motorcar Festival, a three-day event that includes a Rallye, Grand Prix, and Concours d’Elegance. Corky assumed the leadership role in the Coker Family’s BF Goodrich tire dealership in 1974 and for the next 45 years he and his team helped define the collector-car hobby.

Brian Redman is The Grand Ambassador of the Chattanooga Motorcar Festival, a three-day event that includes a Rallye, Grand Prix, and Concours d’Elegance. Brian participated in 358 races in his professional career.

Ben Ebel is the User Experience Designer at Michelin’s Customer Experience Lab. His team leads the development of new technology and business strategies that makes Michelin’s services, solutions, and products more irresistible to their customers. 

Merry Harlacher chairs the board of the Hilton Head Island Concours d’Elegance and Motoring Festival. This is a multi-day event culminating in the Sunday Concours.

Robert Jepson was the 2019 Hilton Head Concours d’Elegance winner and will be returning this year with his spectacular 1920  Model H Stutz Bearcat. Robert shares many stories about his spectacular collection.

Mark Piekarski is a ‘car guy’ who grew up in the auto industry and built a lifetime career around automobiles. He is actively involved in promoting the ‘car enthusiast hobby’ on Hilton Head as President of the Lowcountry Oyster Motor Driving Society, which is the founding club of Hilton Head Concours de Elegance. 

Paul Ianuario is the Chief Judge at the Hilton Head Concours d’Elegance and Motoring Festival. Paul is a retired engineer who spent more than 40 years in the automotive supplier industry with 20 years spent with Michelin Tire Corporation.

Randy Ema is a restoration expert and one of the world’s leading experts on the Duesenberg marque. He will be a guest speaker at this year’s Ironstone Concours d’Elegance talking about these magnificent classic cars.

Brian Blain is one of the Ragtime Racers, a group of passionate automotive enthusiasts who take their 100-year-old race cars around the world to demonstrate on tracks what racing was like 100 years ago. 

Rob Miller is on the board of The Ironstone Concours d’Elegance, a role he’s had for over 10 years. The two-days of fun features a number of events including a vintage road rally, a Cars and Stars Evening Gala, Speaker Forums, an Amphicar display, vintage race cars in action to watch tear up the dirt, wine tasting, and a concours.

Dick McClure is on the Advisory Board the Quail Motorsports Gathering and Board of Directors for The Ironstone Concours. He was the Co-Founder along with Martin Swig of the California Mille and participated in many of their rallies and he hosts two tours, the Spring Colors Motoring Tour and the Fall Colors Motoring Tour. 

Wayne Craig is the Race Car Chairman and board member of the Ironstone Concours d’Elegance. Chief Docent and Car Sourcing Committee Member of the La Jolla Concours. Chief Docent and Jr. Judge Leader for the Hillsborough Concours and Chairman of the Docent Program of the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance.

Lance “Cap” Caputo has spent 30 years helping individuals and business owners using his skills in automotive reconditioning. He is on a quest to change his career path and re-invent himself.

Melinda Russell is the founder of Women’s Motorsports Network, the parent company of the International Women’s Motorsports Association, the IWMA Nation News Magazine, and Racing Girls Rock podcast.

Daniel Donnelly is the Founder of Garden State Goons Racing where he campaigns a track-ready minivan he’s named ‘The Mom Rocket’ and an off-road sedan called “The Brorover”.

Dr. Gundula Tutt is the Founder of OMNIA Restoration in Freiburg, Germany where she conducts scientific analysis, conservation, and restoration work on original paints and coatings, leather and artificial leather, textile materials, wood lacquers and galvanic surfaces on historic vehicles in active use.

Albert Viator earned a degree in Film and TV production and began his career shooting and producing film and TV programming. His recent book titled An Accidental (PSY) Warrior talks about his time in Viet Nam touring with the Army Infantry during the war tied with stories about his passion for cars.

Wesley Smith is the Founder of STANDARD H, an apparel business where he incorporates his passion for automobiles and bikes into his brand. 

Rachel Thurow has been into cars since she was young. Rachel is also an actor and model. You’ll recognize her from her R&D Garage YouTube show. She is always happy to talk to a like-minded car person and especially loves making women feel comfortable about working on their cars! 

Rick McCloskey, also known as Rick Mack, is an artist, photographer, and collector car enthusiast. He grew up in the San Fernando Valley in the 50s and 60s. This was a time of car cruising culture along Van Nuys Boulevard, Bob’s Big Boy Drive-ins. Rick created his book titled Van Nuys Boulevard 1972, a fascinating book on California car culture. 

Jeff Mason Founded Hero Design Studio and began a career as a designer and entrepreneur. When he and his brother Chris started preparing to race the Carrera Panamericana, it was natural for him to create Driving La Carrera, a podcast and blog to share the stories from their rally racing adventure.

Shel Smith is the CEO at ShiftGate, a modern approach to classic car online auctions. ShiftGate was built for every car collector, enthusiast, and dreamer. Today Shel and his two business partners, Neil and Amit, both past Cars Yeah guests, are helping people connection to cars by marketing intelligence and hyper-targeting advertising that connects active buyers with motivated sellers quickly. 

Sam Posey’s racing endeavors spanned 17 seasons, 1965–81, and included a famous victory in 1975 with BMW in the 12 Hours of Sebring. His second career as a TV commentator lasted for over 40 years. He has co-authored a new book titled Sam’s Scrapbook: My Motorsports Memories with his son John.

Giles Chapman writes and talks about the motor car, its industry, its history and its culture. He is the author of 55 books on a huge spectrum of car-related subjects, his latest is The Jaguar Century: 100 Years of Automotive Excellence.

Amit Ahluwalia is Co-Founder and the Chief Technology Officer and at ShiftGate, a modern approach to classic car online auctions that launched on July 21, 2021. ShiftGate was built for every car collector, enthusiast, and dreamer.

Rick Steffens is the driver of the all-new Hot Wheels Mega Wrex™, and is part of the Hot Wheels Monster Trucks Live domestic tour.  Not only does Rick drive monster trucks, but he also enjoys working on them. His shop build shocks, rear end housings, four-link bars, everything from A to Z comes out of his shop Sampson 4X4.

Rebecca Schnell is the the only Female driver of Hot Wheels Monster Truck Bigfoot Midwest Madness. She is the first female driver for Hot Wheels Monster Trucks Live, a first-ever collaboration between Hot Wheels and Bigfoot.

John Hotchkis is the President and CEO of Hotchkis Sport Suspension, a performance aftermarket product company. John and his team design and build high quality performance suspension products engineered to perform and designed to be strong. John's a past racer as well.

J.K. Kelly is an automotive author who first got hooked on motorsports after attending his first NASCAR event at Pocono. His most recent novel is titled Deadly Driver and blends his love for storytelling with his writing skills and the experience he had working with government agencies while at VP Racing Fuels and the time he spent in motorsports.

Steve Fremgen owns Coppa Bella Motors, a business he opened in 2010 located in the magnificent Garage Unlimited complex in Monterey, California. He performs service, repair, rebuilding, diagnostics, and mechanical restoration of Ferrari sports and racing cars.

Matas Buzelis is the Head of Communications at carVertical.com an online car history check platform. With a few simple clicks you will get a full history report of any vehicle using a VIN and be able to see the mileage, theft history, accidents, repairs, if the vehicle was used as a taxi, and more. 

Adam Hawley is the Founder and Managing Director of THEON Design where they pay homage to Porsche’s heritage, methodology, and engineering ethos, by distilling and enhancing the essence of the air cooled 911, making each car lighter, more powerful and even more visceral to drive. 

Glen Smale is a professional motor journalist and photographer. He’s authored fifteen books covering sports cars and motor racing, and founded the photo agency Virtual Motorpix, specializing in sports cars and motorsports racing. His newest book is titled Porsche At Le Mans: 70 Years. 

Andrew Habberstad is a third-generation automobile dealer located in Long Island, New York. Entering their 50th year of business, the Habberstad Auto Group is comprised of 4 dealerships throughout New York and Florida.  

Neil Treadway is one of three founders at ShiftGate, a modern approach to classic car online auctions that launched on July 21, 2021. ShiftGate was built for every car collector, enthusiast, and dreamer.

Michael Thomas has been with Shell/Pennzoil for more than 30 years and serves as the Pennzoil Technical Information Specialist. He is a nationally recognized expert in the passenger car motor oil sector for over 45 years.

Eddie Trayner is the owner of Interstate Vans. Eddie and his dog, Lainie, set off on a post-college adventure to travel with as few costs and as many experiences as possible. The best way to do this: creating a van that was outfitted with everything he needed. 

Chris Mason is the Co-Founder, along with his brother Jeffrey of Driving La Carrera, a motorsports media production company and vintage rally racing team. These two American brothers go racing in and documenting the world’s last great road race, Mexico’s La Carrera Panamericana.

Cody Metcalf is the Automotive Instructor for East Valley Institute of Technology in Arizona, and sits on the RPM Foundation Task Force Board for their own Apprenticeship and Internship programs.

Rudy Samsel is the Co-Founder of Guys With Rides, a dealer-free community and auction site for collector car enthusiasts to buy and sell vintage rides at the lowest prices in the industry.  Guys With Rides has redefined on-line collector car auctions to benefit buyers and sellers alike and connects like-minded automotive enthusiasts.

Peter Grimsdale is a British novelist and award-winning television producer who has made shows for BBC, PBS, and Discovery.  His latest book is titled Racing In The Dark: When The Bentley Boys Conquered Le Mans.

Joe Sherbondy is the Product Director in radar category at Cedar Electronics, where they produce the best-selling detectors on the market. Brands including Escort and Cobra, Joe knows the ins and outs of the radar detector market.

Brent Waldman is the President of BRW Monterey, a real estate investment company. He is an automotive enthusiast who loves to enjoy his old cars, especially at The Quail Rally.

Shawn Coady is a car and motorcycle collector who is taking an extremely rare and originally preserved 1902 Indian motorcycle that will be at The Quail, A Motorsport Gathering.

Tom Porter is the Senior Business Development Manager at SpeedKore Performance Group, an American performance company where their engineers and artisans combine traditional craftsmanship with cutting edge technology.

Jakob Greisen is the Bonhams’ Vice President, Head of their US Motoring and a Collectors Motorcar Specialist. Bonhams is a British auction house that was founded in 1793. It is one of the world’s oldest and largest auctioneers known internationally for fine art, antiques, jewelry, automobilia, motorcycles, and motorcars.

Kai Lermen is the General Manager of Quail Lodge & Golf Club, home of The Peninsula Hotels Signature Events, organizers of renowned motoring events The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering and The Quail Motorcycle Gathering, both hosted annually. 

Martin Button is the CEO of Cosdel International Transportation, a company that transports historic, rare, and collectible automobiles around the world. 

Julius Kruta is a freelance historian and automotive advisor. He started his career in 2000 at Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S in the marketing department. In 2003 he became 'Head of Tradition' of Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S. 

Al McEwan is the senior member of the Pebble Beach Concours Selection Committee and their Chief Class Judge for European Classics. In 2005 he founded, and along with his wife Sandi, oversees the Motoring Classic, an annual driving event that starts in the Pacific Northwest and ends at The Lodge in Pebble Beach. 

Miles Morris is an official FIVA inspector and examiner and judges at many international classic car events including the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, where he serves as a member of the Selection Committee.  He has operated a specialist historic car consultancy and brokerage business, MM Garage LLC in partnership with another ex-pat, Malcolm Welford, who is a past Cars Yeah guest. 

Sandra Button celebrates her 36^th year at the 70^th anniversary of the Chairman of the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. That means she’s now been an integral part of the event for over half of its lifespan. She is the Executive Director and has helped to inspire and guide the growth of the collector car hobby into a truly global celebration of the automobile.

Samir Abid is the founder of Your Data Driven, a digital toolkit to help you reduce your lap times and work through the complexities so that they can have more success and more fun from their motorsports. 

James Page is an automotive journalist and author whose new  book for Porter Press is titled, Ultimate Ferrari 250 GTO.  

Benjamin Shahrabani is the owner of Vintage Car Posters where he has been buying and selling original vintage automotive posters since 2005. He is also a journalist and author of automotive marques. 

Stephen Selzler is a fine artist and designer with a focus on automotive subjects and culture. He serves both private collectors and automotive partners such as dealers, OEMs, and concours events.

Garry Hall is the owner of Classic FX where they combine a qualified engineer’s attention to detail with the traditional upholstery skills learned from a time-served old school trimmer who produced Porsche interiors just as they would have left Stuttgart. 

Genna and Olivia Gentry are this year’s Grand Champions of The Great Race. It’s an annual event that has been running since 1983 where participants enjoy driving old cars over multiple days, on public roads, over a set course and time allotment.

Pal Negyesi came up with the idea for a new magazine last year in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. Photographer Gabor Meyer sent Pal some great photos of a Stout Scarab to be used in a Hungarian classic car magazine. His photos inspired the idea for a new quarterly magazine titled Rare & Unique Vehicles, which aims to show and interpret the rarest and the most unique vehicles from the world of classic motoring.

No stranger to the collector car world, Nick Ellis turned his love of restoration and preservation into a business. Nick joined the RPM Foundation in 2018 to manage their grant process and was recently named Executive Director. The RPM Foundation supports restoration and preservation training programs for the next generation of automotive, motorcycle and marine craftsmen. 

Karlo Flores and his navigator Juan Carlos Salgado won the 2020 Sport Mayor class of La Carrera Panamericana. Long celebrated as one of the most intense, grueling challenges in motorsports, La Carrera is an epic undertaking for teams given the seven days and 2,000 mile endurance run through the winding tight roads of Southern Mexico. 

Sam Smith is a journalist and media specialist with extensive experience specifically in Formula E, endurance sports car racing, and many other categories of motorsport. His new book Formula E: Racing For The Future  is a behind-the-scenes look into the world premier all-electric racing series.

Glen Egan is the new Chairman at the Hillsborough Concours d’Elegance taking place July 18 at Crystal Springs Golf Course in Burlingame, California. There will be over 200 collector cars on display and they will honor the BMW and Ford marques.

Jane Thurmond is a performance driving instructor, a motorsports Lifestyle journalist and host of her own LIVE series on Instagram titled, Riding Shotgun TV. Her dream is to show that regardless of age, with a little extra focus on the moms who are done raising their kids, “it’s now their time to shine!”

Welshman David Withers is the CEO of StarterMotor. The charity is heralding the ’next generation’ imperative and putting it front and central in all its activities from supporting apprenticeships, special events for young people, career fairs, to providing a fleet of classics for young people to use and enjoy.

Chris Bright is the co-founder of Collector Part Exchange, the first online marketplace designed exclusively for collector vehicle parts. Chris has worked in high tech startups for more than 25 years, most recently he was co-founder of a leading legal software company called Zapproved that was acquired by Vista Equity Partners.

Super Bowl-winning, Hall of Fame Coach, Dick Vermeil will be at the 4^th Annual Philadelphia Concours e’Elegance that takes place on July 17 at the Simeon Foundation Automotive Museum. He is driving support for a cause near to his heart, Cool Cars for Kids. It is a nonprofit established at the concours in affiliation with the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Harold Osmer is an author who has written Where They Raced Turn 3, Auto Racing Venues in Southern California, 1900 – 2020, a long awaiting revision of his original classic Where They Raced which has been out of print since 2012.

Bart Kuykens is a commercial photographer who following the global success of his hugely successful automotive art books 'A Flat6 love affair', has attracted the attention of world-class actors, musicians, and media personalities who became subjects of his grainy, visually-rich and powerful black and white portraits. 

Guy Kaplinsky is the CEO and Co-Founder of ASKA Drive & Fly by NFT, where they bridge the gap between aviation and automotive through the pioneering development of the first viable consumer eVTOL road and air vehicle. That’s right, a flying car.

Terry Earwood has been the Chief Instructor for Skip Barber racing for over 35 years. He was a Champion factory Hemi Super Stock drag racer and has raced in numerous events, taught state patrol driving classes, the list goes on and on.

Michael Whitesel inherited ,from his great grandfather, a rare 1919 Cunningham, a car that was on the lawn at Pebble Beach in 2000. His newly launched website titled OldCarJourney.com documents this vehicle as he returns the car to road worthy condition and plans an epic journey.

Steven Harris is an architect in New York and Professor of Architecture at Yale. 16 of Steven’s Porsches are currently on display at the Saratoga Automobile Museum through the summer in Saratoga Springs New York.

Don Kutschall is lead driving instructor at Skip Barber Racing School for all racing and driving programs. From 1990 to the present he has been an instructor with the Skip Barber Racing School and continue to do private coaching in various series including the Ferrari Challenge.  

Jeff Snyder is the Founder of Jeff’s Resurrections where he and his team bring back to life the world’s finest cars. Located in central Texas he started his restoration business in 1990 and their projects range across an extraordinarily diverse spectrum of classics, exotics, and antique vehicles.

Bruce Pascal has a collection of over 4,000 Hot Wheels cars including many rare prototypes.  Bruce has the holy grail of Hot Wheels, the rare Pink Beach-Bomb #1 prototype. Only two exist and his is the best example. 

Jenna Zhang is the founder and creative director of Olympus Watch Co., a luxury Swiss watch brand that up-cycles salvaged supercars into one-of-a-kind timepieces. Her design philosophy is inspired by her time living abroad in London and Milan. 

Neal Giordano is the Founder and Editor of the North Carolina Hot Wheels website, nchwa.com, which is one of the oldest Hot Wheels websites on the internet. He launched it in 1996 as his passion for collecting Hot Wheels and 1:1 scale cars was rampant.

Joe Ottati is a Co-Founder of VALT AutoClub where he’s in charge of event and rally planning. It is an automotive lifestyle and event business based in Northern California that he started with two friends in early 2020, one of which is past Cars Yeah guest Robert Eppley.

Roberto Olivo is the COO of the startup Automobili Estrema, coordinating their new all electric Fulmenia hypercar. He has over 40 years of experience in the global automotive industry. He was one of the founders, managers, and racing driver of BRC Racing Team.

Sean Cridland is an automotive journalist, photographer, and author with over 100 articles in print. Today he’s back on Cars Yeah to talk about his new three book series titled Brumos: An America Racing Icon.

Peter Cline is the Executive Director and Founder of Vet Motor Sports. Their mission is to place qualifying participants within a wide range of motorsports-related activities from amateur events up to professional race teams.

Cameron is the founder of Unlo Motor Club, a shared-vehicle startup, delivering access to enthusiast-curated vehicles, including Porsche, BMW, to powerboats for a monthly subscription fee. Unlo also hosts automotive events where enthusiasts can enjoy a variety of experiences.

Robert Eppley is the Co-Founder, Event Partnerships and Operations Manager, and self-described Energizer Bunny at VALT Auto Club. It is an automotive lifestyle and event business based in Northern California.

Ian Karr talks about his new YouTube channel where he shares his passion for restoring cars including a Porsche 914. He is the founder of IKA Collective, a creative and content-driven production agency currently in its 35^th year. IKA’s credits encompass television series, promos, commercials and original digital content.

Alexander Klatt is the Chief Creative Officer at Automobili Estrema, a new player in the High-end electric vehicle arena. He is an automotive designer whose expertise lies in understanding the wholistic creation process of a new vehicle, from exploration to conception to 3D modeling and surfacing for tooling. 

Will Lockwood is an engineer, restorer, fabricator, and builder who is part of the team at Kindigit Design where they build incredible custom rides.

Gianfranco “Franco” Pizzuto is the Chief Executive Officer of Automobili Estrema. Estrema is a new player in the High-end electric vehicle arena and they are manufacturing in a low volume zero emission hypercar and supercar called the Fulminea. 

Rick Kopp has owned and raced everything from motocross at age eight to drag racing in door cars. He continued drag racing at the sportsman level in the Top Dragster and Nostalgia Nitro Funny car classes and has been competing for nearly 30 years.

Jeff Alon is the Owner and Operator of the New York Transmission Group and a producer and online talent for the Autolab Radio Show. With over 40 years of experience in the automotive aftermarket service industry, Jeff is the show’s in-house transmission and driveline expert. 

Allen Bentley is an artist who for the past two decades dedicated his art to creating ballroom dancers on canvas and paper, but now he has switched gears into vintage automobiles. Allen has found what he calls “the through-line”… Motion and now his car series titled, "Momentum", Allen marries that interest and his love for driving into a beautiful compendium of speed and exhilaration. 

Jillian Romero - Chaves is the President of Ontario Auto Center where she touches just about every piece of the business including customer service, parts, sales, service techs, all while working with 19 globally recognized automotive brands and dealerships and thousands of new and pre-owned vehicles under 15 rooftops.

Scott Whitehead is the owner of Benchmark Motoring, Scrape Armor, and Med Spec. His headquarters are in Bellevue, Washington where he uses modern technologies to design and manufacture the finest solutions for automotive enthusiasts and more.

Aaron Richardet is the Founder of Osprey Custom Cars. He and his team have been restoring and building bespoke Land Rover Defenders since 2013.

Between 1997 and 2014, Tom Kristensen won the world’s toughest motor race, the Le Mans 24 Hours, a record nine times and finished on the podium on five more occasions. He raced Le Mans for 18 years in a row. Tom shares in his new book, titled Mr. Le Mans, his deepest personal reflections and insights from inside and outside the cockpit.