Mon, 30 September 2019
Stuart Sobek is the Founder and Chairman of the Las Vegas Concours d’Elegance. This inaugural event will debut on October 25 through the 28 at the exclusive Dragon Ridge Country Club. Stuart has been in the car collector world for more than 31 years. Fueled by his first visit to Pebble Beach in 1987, he has been collecting and showing cars ever since. His passion began and still remains in exotic cars. Being a long-time member of many car clubs, including the Lamborghini and Maserati Clubs, enabled him to learn and increase his knowledge and passion for these unique automobiles. As a collector, he has personally owned and logged many miles behind the wheel of some fantastic rides, both on the street and the track. Stuart is a member of the CCCA and Checkered Flag Lifetime Member of the Petersen Museum in Los Angeles, California. Today he returns to Cars Yeah after a visit here last February to update us on this new Concours event. |
Fri, 27 September 2019
Bill Rothermel will serve as the Master of Ceremonies at the inaugural Chattanooga Motorcar Festival and the Las Vegas Concours d’Elegance. He is a member of the Boards of Directors of the AACA Museum, Inc., and The Elegance, both in Hershey, Pennsylvania. He currently serves as the Master of Ceremonies of numerous events including the Boca Raton Concours d’Elegance, The Elegance, the Concours of America, the Radnor Concours d’Elegance, the St. Michaels Concours d’Elegance, The Hemmings Concours, Eurofest, Greenville-Spartanburg, and the Hilton Head Island Motoring Festival. Bill also serves as a judge at numerous Concours events around the country and he is a freelance writer and his works have been featured in national and international publications and auction catalogs. |
Thu, 26 September 2019
Mark Gillies is the title sponsor at the Inaugural Chattanooga Motorcar Festival taking place October 11 – 12 at the Westin Hotel and Chattanooga’s West Village. He is a lifelong automotive enthusiast whose career as a journalist included editing Supercar Classics and CAR magazines in the UK before arriving in the States in 1995. He became Executive Editor of Automobile and Car and Driver magazines. Eight years ago he moved into PR at Volkswagen and he is currently head of product communications for the North American region. Mark has owned a number of interesting vehicles and has raced a number of great old cars for collectors over the years. He and his son own and drive a 1992 Golf GTI race car. |
Wed, 25 September 2019
Mike Tilson is the Chief Judge at the Inaugural Chattanooga Motorcar Festival taking place October 11 – 12 at the Westin Hotel and Chattanooga’s West Village. He is also the Founder and Chairman of the Radnor Hunt Concours d' Elegance, now in its 23rd year. He is Chief Judge at the Carmel Concours on the Avenue and as a member of the International Chief Judges Advisory Group ( ICJAG ). Mike judges at many major Concours events in the US, Canada, and Europe. He is a former race car driver in the World Endurance Championship, SCCA, and IMSA. Mike competed at Sebring 12 hours, Daytona 24 Hours, and Watkins Glen 6 Hours, as well as racing in Mexico and Canada with many notable co-drivers, such as Innes Ireland, Elliott Forbes-Robinson, Bruce Jennings and Al Holbert. He competed in the Mille Miglia on the BMW team in a BMW 507. For over forty years Mike owned a sales, service and restoration shop specializing in high-performance European automobiles. |
Tue, 24 September 2019
Dorsey Schroeder is the Competition Director for the Chattanooga MotorCar Festival’s Time Trials. He is currently the Competition Director for the HSR and Trans-Am Chief Steward and since 2015, has served as Race Director for the World Challenge Series. As a member of the SCCA Hall of Fame, Dorsey’s career as a racecar driver has earned him 40 professional races in 242 starts including 17 Trans-Am Series wins. In 1971 at the age of 18, he became the first person under the age of 21 to be issued an SCCA National Competition License. He won numerous championships throughout the 90s and in recent years competed in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship races at Daytona and Sebring in the Prototype class. He has served as a color analyst for Fox Sports 1 and was a color analyst for the Speed Channel. Photo credit: ISC Archives & Research Center via Getty Images
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Mon, 23 September 2019
Jim Pace is the Co-Founder of the Chattanooga MotorCar Festival, an inaugural event that joins Byron Defoor’s 50 Plus Racing Foundation in bringing this fundraising event to Chattanooga, Tennessee. Jim is a professional racecar driver who has competed since 1987. He’s earned wins as the Overall Winner and GT Winner in the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona, and at the 12 Hours of Sebring. Jim’s a sports car Series Champion in the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) GTU class. He is recognized as a top driver having raced formula, Prototype, GT, and vintage cars around the world including Spa in Belgium and Germany’s Nurburgring circuits. He is also a driving instructor, racing coach, and adventure consultant. As a principal in Historic Sportscar Racing since 2015 Jim has been a Race Advisor for the Classic 24 at Daytona and Classic 12 at Sebring. |
Fri, 20 September 2019
Rob Fisher has spent a lifetime devoted to machines that turn fuel into noise and he loves anything with four wheels, two wheels, or a propeller. Rob is currently the CEO of the up and coming San Francisco Auto Museum located in the heart of the City by the Bay. Prior to finding his dream job with the museum, Rob spent over 30 years leading global sales organizations at 6 different start-ups in Silicon Valley, which took him and his family to London for 6 years. He spends his free time doing all things automotive as the most recent president of a private vintage car club, collecting post-war cars and vintage racing his Formula Atlantic. Rob is a supporter of the Ironstone Concours and he is also the Chairman of the Hillsborough Concours d’Elegance – the longest continually running Concours in the world. |
Thu, 19 September 2019
Firman Brown serves on the Ironstone Concours Board of Directors as well as the Sonora Regional Horseless Carriage Club and he is in his third year on the Calaveras County Grand Jury. His career included farming, working for a wholesale liquor, beer, and wine distributor, and eventually purchasing his own distributorship, which he eventually sold. He lived in Pebble Beach for 30 years and had a great relationship with the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance and after moving to Calaveras County, he founded The Friends of the Calaveras County Fair and the Jumping Frog Jubilee. Today he is the Project Manager for the Utica Hotel restoration and development when he is not in his shop playing with and working on his old cars. |
Wed, 18 September 2019
Charles Test is part of the Ragtime Racers, a group the racer Brian Blain put together where he runs Blain Motorsports Foundation. There Charles helps research the various automobiles they restore. Charles is the great-grandson of Charles E. Test, one of the founders of the National Motor Vehicle Company in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1900-1924. He graduated from the Minneapolis College of Art & Design in 1978 and lives in Minneapolis. He got into motorcycles and his first bike was a 1938 Harley-Davidson Knucklehead. He’s had Nashes, a Studebaker, an Edsel, and a Chevy pickup. He started the website Chuckstoyland.com in 2006 where he shares his collections of historic postcards and photos. Charles got into vintage racing in 2014 as a Mechanician with Brian in a 1911 National Racer that Charlie Merz drove to a 7th place finish in the first Indy 500. Today Charles pilots his own 1911 National Speedway Roadster. |
Tue, 17 September 2019
Gail Kautz is the Vice-Chairman of Ironstone Vineyards and is involved in all aspects of the family farming operation in Lodi, California. She and her husband John have been married over 60 years and started the Ironstone Concours in 1996. Her education, career, commissions, and board appointments are vast and cover decades of service in California. Her son Stephen is the oldest of their four children and is a third-generation California farmer. He is the President of Ironstone Winery, located in the Sierra Foothills town of Murphys. He is involved in numerous organizations promoting Calaveras County, is a Director of the California Association of Wine Grape Growers, and is past Director of the California Wine Institute. He is also a board member of the Ironstone Concours Foundation that has raised over a million dollars for its charities. Gail and Stephen are the first mother and son to be guests here on Cars Yeah. |
Mon, 16 September 2019
Ryan Skelly is the Sales Manager at Mercedes Benz of Stockton in California. His dealership is a sponsor of the Ironstone Concours. For over 30 years, Mercedes Benz of Stockton has earned trust through sincere customer service in their state of the art dealership. They provide new and used cars along with their Certified Technician care team. Ryan began his automotive career working with his father who sold Fords in the 80s in Ohio. He passed out flags and popcorn on sales days and he says if he closes his eyes, and thinks of those days, he can still recall the new-car smell of a new Ford. His career began at Prospect Motors in Jackson and he’s been with Mercedes Benz of Stockton for 3 years. |
Fri, 13 September 2019
Debbie Briscoe is a wife, mother, former teacher, and vintage race car driver. She spent 25 years teaching and mentoring children, parents, and fellow teachers. Then one day, while enjoying time at the race track she decided to get a racing license. She quickly became a favorite in the annual ProFormance Ladies Track Day at Pacific Raceways where they called her ‘Speed Racer’. She attended the Bondurant Racing School and started racing at tracks including Pacific Raceways, Portland, Spokane, Road America, Indianapolis, and Daytona. In her second season, she added tracks including Sonoma and Laguna Seca. She races with her husband and sons and has been interviewed by past Cars Yeah guest Bob Varsha on Motor Trend and today she has friends who include: Brian Redman, Lyn St. James, and Karen Salvaggio, all past guests on Cars Yeah, plus a whole lot of other racers. |
Thu, 12 September 2019
Cassie Nunes is the Host and Event Coordinator of the 5th Annual ADA Charity Car Show that takes place Sunday, November 17 at the MB2 Raceway in Thousand Oaks, California. The show is an annual charity showcase of beautiful cars including classics, domestics, modified and exotics that all come together to raise money for the American Diabetes Association. Their mission is to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by this disease. Cassie owns a 1968 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu and was born and raised into a family of automotive enthusiasts. Her father was a drag racer and her mom builds and shows cars. Being a Type 1 Diabetic, she has discovered how to combine her passion for cars and raise money to fight diabetes. |
Wed, 11 September 2019
Kelly Whitton serves as the Director of the Copperstate 1000 Vintage Car Road Rally, as well as the Copperstate Overland Vintage Off-Roading Adventure. Kelly started her career in Washington DC working for a small lobby and political fundraising firm. In 2005, after spending six years teaching English in South Korea and traveling the world, she found herself in Arizona and in the employment of the organizers of the Copperstate 1000 – an event that would change her life. Kelly spends as much of her free time as possible in or around vintage cars. She served as a judge at the Santa Fe Concorso for four years, participates in numerous rallies across the US, and most recently completed and won her class in the 2019 Peking to Pairs Endurance Race. |
Tue, 10 September 2019
Kai Goddard is the Co-Founder and Driver/Coach at Track Rekord a company born out of a need to provide consistent, high-quality track day driver instruction across the US and Canada. The ultimate goal of Track Record is to reduce risk, improved safety, increased enjoyment, lower lap times, and reduce insurance costs. He was born into a racing family, the son of two-time World Superstox Champion and former factory BMW Touring Car racer Geoff Goddard. Kai has over 24 years of racing, testing, development, marketing, driving events, coaching, precision driving, and high-performance driving experience. He’s run in SCCA Formula Vee, Improved Touring Car, American Sedan to Factory Stocks, Short Track Racing, PBOC Racing, and NASA Pro Racing. He’s worked with numerous marques in driving events, hot laps, stunt shows, film, and more. |
Mon, 9 September 2019
Andy Lee is the Co-Founder and Driver/Coach at Track Rekord a company born out of a need to provide consistent, high-quality track day driver instruction across the US and Canada. The ultimate goal of Track Record is to reduce risk, improved safety, increased enjoyment, lower lap times, and reduce insurance costs. Andy is both a driver and a mechanic who has raced since 2003. He’s run in the Volkswagen Jetta TDI Cup and in the Pirelli World Challenge Series in a Camaro. He garnered Rookie of the Year honors and a second place in the Championship. Since 2008 Andy has recorded 8 wins, 24 podiums, and 11 poles and he has raced in several series including IMSA Continental Series, Trans Am, NASA, and SCORE Off-Road Racing. He’s tested and raced a variety of cars including Lamborghini, Cadillac, and Porsche. |
Fri, 6 September 2019
Steve Kimpton is the Director of Operations at Track Rekord, a company born out of a need to provide consistent, high-quality track day driver instruction across the US and Canada. The ultimate goal of Track Record is to reduce risk, improve safety, increase enjoyment, lower lap times, and reduce insurance costs. Steve has a Masters Degree in Engineering, Economics, and Management from Oxford University. He is a retired consulting actuary who loves to race. He built his first sports car after leaving university and restores English roadsters. He started racing in 2005 in a Lotus Elise and has competed at Lime Rock, Monticello, and was one of only three US drivers to compete in the Jaguar Simola Hillclimb in South Africa, driving a Saleen Mustang. Steve joined Track Rekord after it was founded by past Cars Yeah guests, Kai Goddard, and Andy Lee. They realized that two professional racing drivers left to their own devices might be a little problematic. Steve brings his business background to the table and is the voice of reason behind Track Rekord. |
Thu, 5 September 2019
Patrick Kelley is an author with a fascination for all things automotive. About 15 years ago he expanded this passion and started collecting original automobile concept art. These are drawings and paintings of what future automobiles might look like. He decided that these designs, that came out of art schools across America, and the ‘Big Three’ automotive manufacturing companies, had to be shared. Today he shares his new book, Imagine! Automobile Concept Art From the 1930s to the 1980s, published by Dalton Watson Fine Books. It takes the reader back to a time when the sky was the limit, dreams and visions were encouraged and restrictions were few. With 235 wonderfully unique images and 324 pages, it is a must-have for your library. |
Wed, 4 September 2019
Jeff Stumb is the Director of the Great Race, an annual vintage automotive driving event that has taken in the United States for 36 years. The drive has grown to unprecedented heights, from a record number of rookies to the overall number of teams. Jeff grew up in Birmingham, Alabama and saw the Great Race for the first time in 1987. He participated in the event in 1994 competing through the years with friends, his father, and his wife. He had a career in the newspaper business for almost 25 years and has owned over 150 classic cars ranging from a 1916 Hudson to a 1965 Chevrolet Bel Air. The Great Race began in 1983 and has raised thousands of dollars for charity. In 2010 Corky Coker of Coker Tires took over leadership and the company he founded owns the event to this day under the leadership of past Cars Yeah guest, Wade Kawasaki. |
Tue, 3 September 2019
Sawyer Dell’Aquila is a 21-year-old automotive enthusiast who works at On The Road Again Classics as an apprentice technician in Morgan Hill, California. The company was started in 2008 by Bill Hiland and they do everything under one roof in a 12,000 square foot facility. The team specializes in high-quality restoration for classic British automobiles. Sawyer owns a project ‘67 MGB, modified first-generation Miata, and a family-owned-since-new, 5 speed ‘91 Acura Integra with 1/4 million miles. Inspired to create his own business giving vintage cars a new life with modern touches, Sawyer hopes to appeal to more people in the classic car market. His goal is to bring a younger crowd attracted to cars that are slowly being forgotten. Regular Cars Yeah listeners will remember I had Sawyer’s father, Dave, on the show a few months ago. |
Mon, 2 September 2019
Zef Eisenberg is the CEO of Eisenberg Racing, a specialized engineering company with a talented team that works to develop some of the world’s most extreme and powerful motorbikes, cars, quads, and land speed vehicles. His MADMAX Race Team is behind multiple world land speed records on bikes, quads, and in cars. This team is most known for its dedication to racing and building turbine-powered motorbikes for extreme speed. MADMAX Racing holds numerous Guinness World, British and Local Guernsey records. He has extensive experience in competing on high-powered 2 stroke race quads that have a reputation of taking every Quad hill climb record they enter. Best in class is what the brand’s DNA is all about. Catch his new Speed Freaks TV show on ITV4 that debuted August 7, 2019. |