Alan Wilson is an internationally recognized race facilities designer and development consultant who has designed and built 33 racetracks and consulted or designed almost 150 others. He was a national level competitor in car and motorcycle racing. He is one of the few managers to have operated major international events for World Championship Formula One, Superbike, Indycars, NASCAR, IMSA GTP, SCCA and many others. He’s earned numerous awards world-wide. His most recent tracks built include the ...
Jun 11, 2015•38 min
TJ Grewal, or just Teej to his friends, is a wandering photographer and illustrator with work published in various publications. Self described, TJ has an unhealthy obsession with cars and design. A career as a tech executive has afforded his automotive and design obsession, helping him move from a kid with lots of matchbox cars to a “grown up” with an eclectic set of cars to drive.
Jun 10, 2015•40 min
Pete Cowic is the owner and operator of Ohio Metal Shaping located in Troy, Ohio. There he specialized in metal shaping, fabricating, and the restoration of classic and vintage automobiles. Pete is a graduate of Wyotec technical school and after spending 8 years working in restoration shops that restored concours level automobiles, Pete opened his own business.
Jun 09, 2015•27 min
Myron Vernis has one of the most eccentric car collections in the world. At Jalopnik he’s known as Junkman and at his garage in Ohio he’s simply an automotive enthusiast with a taste for the unique, the odd, and the rare. He ran the Glenmore Gathering of Significant Automobiles for 18 years in Canton Ohio. He claims to have a bad case of automotive ADD. Just a few of his cars include: the XR-1, an Olson Eagle, the one off Hoffman X-8, an Aileron Spyder, a Paxton, and the Ghia 450SS. Myron has ov...
Jun 08, 2015•33 min
Tim Considine is a photographer, producer, racer, author, consultant, and two-term President of the Motor Press Guild, the largest automotive press association in the U.S. He anchored the first live worldwide cybercast of the Indianapolis 500 and pioneered streaming audio internet reports from the 24 Hours of Le Mans. He’s received the coveted Motor Press Guild Dean Batchelor Award and his epic, three-volume book Twice Around the Clock; The Yanks at Le Mans is in the works. He is a contributing ...
Jun 05, 2015•41 min
Mike Phillips is the Director of Training at Autogeek. He is a car care professional who has been detailing and caring for vehicles since the 70s. At Autogeek, the on-line source for car care products, Mike trains their staff, hosts Autogeek’s detailing how-to videos. He provides the detailing tips segments on the My Classic Car TV show with Dennis Gage. He’s appeared on Two Guys Garage, Motorhead Garage and the What’s In The Garage TV show. With over 250 articles to his credit Mike is the exper...
Jun 04, 2015•40 min
Bob Green is a Master Instructor at Skip Barber Racing School and the Director of Survive the Drive.org. For over 22 years Bob has taught students the skills needed for high performance driving, racing, and emergency highway procedures. Survive the Drive is an educational community service, automotive violence-prevention program focused on high school age novice drivers. The goal is to teach them skills using a research-based approach to proper behavior behind the wheel and crash prevention....
Jun 03, 2015•30 min
Eddie Alterman is the Editor-In-Chief at Car And Driver magazine, the largest monthly automotive title in the country. He took over the wheel in 2009 and has overseen a lauded redesign and bolstering of the brand’s digital and social media efforts. In 2013 Eddie was named to Complex Magazine’s list of “The 50 Most Influential people in the Auto Industry.” Eddie is currently based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Jun 02, 2015•38 min
Dwight Knowlton is the founder of CarpeGear.com. It's where you can find his book The Little Red Racing Car. It’s an award winning father and son picture book story about a 1955 Maserati 300S. It's steeped in automotive heritage and features Sir Stirling Moss. Now Dwight has a new book, The Greatest Race. It’s a story about the record-breaking win by Sir Stirling Moss at the 1955 Mille Miglia. Dwight’s teamed up with Sir Stirling to bring you this spectacular story about a Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR ...
Jun 01, 2015•32 min
Mark Hyman is the founder of Hyman Ltd. Classic Cars located in St. Louis, Missouri. They specialize in the acquisition and sale of prewar classic automobiles and post war American collectible cars as well as pre and post war sports cars. Visit Mark in his beautiful facility or on his website and you’ll encounter an extremely wide variety of the most iconic vehicles ever built and some you have probably never seen before. Mark caters to collectors and museums both in the United States and Intern...
May 29, 2015•35 min
Brad Fanshaw is the President and CEO at Bonneville WorldWide. He’s an automotive fabricator, industrial designer, entrepreneur, radio host and TV personality. His companies include Bonspeed Wheels, apparel, watches and media. He is the winner of numerous design awards including the Ford Design Award, GM Design Award and Swiss Watch Design Award and he was the first to take an aftermarket company public; Boyd's Wheels in 1995. Brad also helped take Boyde Coddington, Chip Foose and Jesse James to...
May 28, 2015•38 min
Jason Engel is the founder and owner of Classic Recreations. He and his team of talented technicians and craftsmen have been modifying and custom fabricating high performance vehicles for more than 10 years. Each vehicle is built-to-order and their Mustangs are each a unique work of automotive art. You can order yours in a variety of configurations or Jason and his team will help you imagine the wildest dreams possible and build a car for you to your personal specifications.
May 27, 2015•31 min
Alex Finigan is the Sales Manager at Paul Russell and Company where they restore and maintain the finest historic vehicles in the world. They perform a full range of care including: mechanical, coachbuilding, paint, upholstery, machining, research, parts, and much more. You’ll find Paul Russell and Companies work on the lawns of the finest concours events in the world. Alex was bitten by the car bug in 1959 and has worked on and restored automobiles ever since.
May 26, 2015•38 min
Returning Cars Yeah guest Dominic Dobson made 65 starts driving Indycars between 1984-1994, including seven consecutive starts at the Indianapolis 500. He was CART Rookie of the Year in 1986 and was the Fastest Rookie in Indianapolis history in 1988. He drove numerous IMSA and other sports car races including the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the 24 hours of Daytona and the 12 hours of Sebring in a Porsche 962. He also raced two years for Dodge in the North American Touring Car Championship. He was an in...
May 25, 2015•34 min
Fred Simeone is the founder and Executive Director of the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The museum opened in June of 2008 in an old engine remanufacturing building. The 80,000 square foot building houses an incredible collection of over 65 racing sports cars that encompass the words of John Stuart Mill, “Competition is indispensable to progress.” You will enjoy marques including Alfa Romeo, Porsche, Ferrari, Aston Martin, and Delahaye to name just a ...
May 22, 2015•41 min
Mike Lempert owns and operates Lempert Wheels in Charleston, South Carolina. After retiring from a 28 year career in telecommunications Mike accelerated head first into his passion, the classic car hobby. He was originally going to sell specialty parts but after building his first wood rimmed steering wheel the focus of his business became clear. Mike crafts unique, custom steering wheels for all kinds of classic automobiles working with exotic woods from all over the world. He also restores vin...
May 21, 2015•30 min
Matt Hardigree is a writer and car journalist who frequently reminds people he's from Texas even though he currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. As Executive Director of Jalopnik, Gawker Media's automotive site, he oversees a large staff dedicated to entertaining and occasionally informing the biggest and most enthusiastic audience of young car fans in the world. Matt frequently appears on CNN, ABC News, the BBC, Bloomberg, Fox News, Marketplace, and other outlets to provide his expertise on a ...
May 20, 2015•38 min
Allen Stephens is the Chairman of the 2015 Forest Grove Concours d’Elegance, located near Portland, Oregon. A life-long automobile enthusiast, Allen caught the car bug as a child riding in his father’s Kougar Jaguar to local shows and racing events. Allen is past president of the Mercedes-Benz Club of America, Portland Section, and is a certified Concours judge. His car collecting focus is on German automobiles, and he is currently restoring a 1972 Mercedes coupe. A graduate of Oregon State Univ...
May 19, 2015•34 min
Ford W. Heacock III is a veteran insurance professional with a passion for collector cars. He grew up in the racing community of Sebring, Florida where his family was intimately involved in the 12 Hours of Sebring throughout the 1950s and 60s. His grandfather, Ford Heacock Sr, was Chairman of the Sebring race in the early years. Ford created the SVRA (Sportscar Vintage Racing Association) and Vintage Motorsport magazine, which he founded in the early 1980s. In 1989, he began offering his insuran...
May 18, 2015•41 min
Jonathan Cats is the General Manager of Cats Exotics in Lynwood, Washington. He and his father have turned their automotive passion in to one of the biggest and most respected exotic and collector dealerships in the US. Cat’s Exotics specializes in the hard-to-find automobile. The Cats motto is “If we don’t have it, we can find it.” holds true. At any time their inventory is a mix of everything from muscle cars, street rods, domestic and foreign sports and super cars to the newest exotic and lux...
May 15, 2015•37 min
Butch Dennison is the owner of Dennison International Motorsports in Puyallup, Washington. He has over 35 years of racing experience and with his talented team they have been building vintage race cars, restoring Award Winning Concours and collector cars for automobile enthusiasts. Know for their motto, Quality that Goes, Dennison International prides themselves in building, restoring, maintaining and racing vintage automobiles that are used as intended. Butch’s past includes working with Pete L...
May 14, 2015•35 min
Jon “Thunderlungs” Lundberg is the owner of Southwest Valuations in Oro Valley Arizona. His firm appraises unique, exotic, historic, and racing motor vehicles. He’s an Accredited Senior Appraiser with the American Society of Appraisers. Jon’s been the voice of drag racing announcing national and regional events starting back in 1955. He’s known as The Voice of Drag Racing a title according him in 1963. and has been on television in multiple markets throughout his long career. He was elected to t...
May 13, 2015•35 min
Since 2004, Mark Hicks has been the General Manager and Chief Inspiration Officer at Chin Motorsports. He has over 600 lifetime days on the race track and over 50,000 laps at 45 different road courses in North America, Europe, and New Zealand. Mark currently, spends time behind the wheel in a Porsche Cayman, Acura NSX, Subaru BRZ, a Spec Miata, and pretty much any OPC (other people's cars). After all that, Mark has learned that he's got a lot to learn about being a great driver. And, as often sa...
May 12, 2015•40 min
Nick Veasey is a man with x-ray vision who lives in Kent in the United Kingdom. He creates art that shows what it is really like inside his subjects. Nick works with radiographic imaging equipment and takes photographic art to another level. His images are a classic example of the fusion between art and science and they take us on a journey into a world otherwise unseen. While he works with many different objects it is his work with automobiles, equipment, motorcycles and people that brings him ...
May 11, 2015•28 min
Paul Magee is the founder of 95 Customs.com, a place fueled by motor culture. Paul’s an industrial designer with an irrational love of cars and bikes. He has lead design teams for large corporations and he’s been awarded 75 design and utility patents. He’s a member of the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA), The Design Management Institute (DMI), and the Sports Car Club of America. He has served on the Board of Directors for IDSA and actively serves in board advisory roles for the SCC...
May 08, 2015•37 min
Ryan Staub is a Partner in the Affinity division at Lockton, the largest privately-held insurance brokerage firm in the world. He established the Lockton Affinity Motorsports team to meet the emerging and changing insurance needs of participants and organizations involved in motorsports. Lockton Motorsports provides HPDE and track day participants with options to insure their cars on track, insurance packages tailored to the needs of amateur racers and professional teams, and insurance solutions...
May 07, 2015•35 min
Gama Aguilar is a technology and racing junky. Originally born in Mexico, he grew up in his dad’s shop and it was there that his passion for cars was hard-coded. After several years of working in the bleeding edge of technology at Hewlett Packard, Intel and Microsoft, he decided to try and disrupt the motorsports industry with Track Attack. Track Attack is a GPS based lap timer, video recorder and sharing platform for Windows Phone, iOS and Android phones. Gama is an avid racer, going on his sec...
May 06, 2015•42 min
Bodie Stroud is the CEO and Founder of Bodie Stroud Industries in Sun Valley, California. He and his talented team design, build, and fabricate cars, trucks, custom chassis, and suspension components. His work spans over 20 years and his designs and builds have earned the Ford Design Award – Best of Show at SEMA. Bodie is the co-host on Travel Channel’s Rock My RV with Brett Michaels and he was featured on Speed Channel’s Hot Rod TV where his work on Tim Allen’s 1968 Copo Camaro was chronicled. ...
May 05, 2015•34 min
Chris Szwedo has over 25 years of experience in videography, writing, and editing. He’s the recipient of national and regional EMMY nominations and a category winner of The Motor Press Guild Dean Batchelor Award for excellence in automotive journalism. Along with work in a variety of fields Chris has created automotive videos on Ralph Lauren’s automobile collection and signature works for Public Television distribution including Lime Rock park: The secret Valley of Racing and A Gullwing At Twili...
May 04, 2015•39 min
Sean Tucker is the great-grandson of automotive visionary Preston Tucker and the Co-Owner of Preston Tucker LLC. He is an Automotive Engineer by trade and has over 10 years of experience in design, development, and manufacturing with some of the world’s leading car and truck brands. Sean currently works as a Quality Engineer at a leading truck manufacturer and consults at Ida Automotive and Rob Ida Concepts. One of Sean’s current projects includes assisting in the design and fabrication of the T...
May 02, 2015•33 min
