Bill Noon runs the classic road and racecar side of Symbolic Motors in La Jolla California. If you’ve been to any of the prominent concours or auction events in the country, you’ve probably seen Bill running around with his brief case, phone and pen in hand. Bill is a veteran of the United States Navy and the Merchant Marines. He’s owned over 100 different vehicles over the past 35 years and he’s always looking for the next one. He writes for several different magazines and has appeared in a var...
Oct 03, 2014•42 min
Charles Joseph Maher began his automotive journey at the wheel of his family cars, a 1955 Chevy Bel-Aire followed by a Chrysler 300. He attended the University of Notre Dame and received a bachelor's degree in Fine Art in 1968. Charlie has been an independent artist since 1988, after working as a designer for the Ford Motor Company. After his time with Ford, he worked 14 years with a graphics firm in Detroit designing production car graphics for Ford, GM, Honda, Toyota as well as projects such a...
Oct 02, 2014•39 min
Tom Fritz from Ventura County, California is an artist who’s automotive themes represent the Southern California car culture during the 60’s and 70’s. It is colorful and impressionistic that's beautifully composed and lit with a hint of drama, power, beauty, and action. I think it’s simply fantastic. He’s a member of the Automotive Fine Arts Society and he’s won numerous awards including the prestigious Peter Helck Award seven times, the Art Fitzpatrick Award twice at the Pebble Beach Concours, ...
Oct 01, 2014•35 min
Rob is the Vice President of Content for Hagerty Insurance Company and is the Publisher of Hagerty Classic Cars magazine. Rob is also a regular contributor to the New York Times and Auto Week magazine and has written for Car and Driver, Classic and Sports Car and Sports Car Market magazine. He is the author of the book "Ran When Parked." He currently owns a 1983 Ferrari 308 GTS and a 1973 Jensen Interceptor.
Sep 30, 2014•32 min
Jeff Zurschmeide is an automotive journalist and author from Portland, Oregon. He’s the Editor in Chief of Maximum Drive magazine, automotive reviewer for The Oregonian newspaper, and he’s the author of 8 books on a wide variety of automotive topics - and he’s working on his 9th book.
Sep 29, 2014•36 min
Dennis Hoyt’s artistic focus and drive are grounded in the “Trompe l’oeuil” (loy) concept. For over 30 years his definition of ‘art’ has been at odds with the conventional. His sculptures are both free standing and wall mounted and depict an automotive theme of motion and color. His sculptures are constructed of hand carved wood that focused on abstract presentations of formal shapes. These pieces developed into large-scale works using wood as the primary medium. The techniques he developed have...
Sep 26, 2014•40 min
Martin Rudow, President of Rudow Specialty Publishing, publishes Vintage Drift magazine for SOVREN, the Pacific Northwest’s largest and most active vintage racing club, along with other monthly and annual publications. His two regional sports car racing history books, Weekends of Glory and Long Straights and Hairpin Turns , have received national and international recognition. A second edition of Long Straights has just been published as Vee-Lines , a reprint of the fascinating long-lost newslet...
Sep 25, 2014•39 min
Cam Ingram is an owner at Road Scholars with locations on the East and West coasts. There he oversees the acquisition, selling, and restoration of historically significant and collectible automobiles, with a focus on Porsche automobiles. They service clients all over the United States and are known for having cars at the top 1% of the market. Cam comes from a family of Porsche enthusiast and his expertise in the marque is unsurpassed. He recently published a fantastic book about Porsche titled P...
Sep 24, 2014•32 min
Dwight Knowlton is the founder of 73ideas. It's a boutique agency of sorts, drawing on more than a decade of his experience working with small to mid size businesses and numerous Fortune 500 brands. Dwight’s been a part of growing some startups into international competitors and was recently part of a tech startup that enjoyed a successful exit – selling to a leading investment bank. Now he’s seeking to live his passion. Dwight’s a car guy and has a dual overhead cam where his heart should be. H...
Sep 23, 2014•40 min
Steve Walker is an artist, and a former Resident Artist for the City of Seattle. He draws, paints, creates sculptures, illustrates for magazines and children’s books and he’s done some writing as well. He also penned a cartoon strip for National Lampoon. And he builds cars. Very, very unique cars. He’s been featured on the TV show Monster Garage and the Vintage Vehicle Show. The cars Steve builds are not restoration but his own creations using a vocabulary of recognizable shapes inspired by the ...
Sep 22, 2014•31 min
Barry Meguiar represents the third generation of the company his grandfather founded in 1901. For Barry, working at Meguiar's started when he was in grade school. Over the years Barry worked in various areas of the business but it was his vision to take their car care products to the consumer marketplace that got things revved up. In 1973 the first consumer product, Meguiar’s Liquid Cleaner Wax was launched. The rest is history and today the average retailer showcased 40 to 50 separate Meguiar's...
Sep 19, 2014•39 min
Andrew Evans is an up and coming 16 year old race car driver. He is in the driver development program of PR1 Motorsports, which has won over 45 championships, including the 2013 ALMS Driver’s Championship. Andrew started racing karts when he was 8 years old and by 12 he had moved up to shifter karts. By the time he was 14 Andrew reached the top levels of the national karting scene. In 2013, at the age of 15, he had an impressive debut season of Formula F1600 car racing with the Lynx Racing team....
Sep 18, 2014•25 min
Part Two of a two-part interview. Where do I begin when introducing an iconic legend in the automotive world? Peter Brock is a designer, a racer, an award-winning author, a speaker, and a photographer. He was the youngest designer to be hired by General Motors in 1957 and sketched what became the first Corvette Sting Ray. In 1961 Peter became Carroll Shelby’s first employee and designed the iconic Daytona Coupe that won the World Championship in 1965. There were other cars he designed while with...
Sep 17, 2014•32 min
Where do I begin when introducing an iconic legend in the automotive world? Peter Brock is a designer, a racer, an award-winning author, a speaker, and a photographer. He was the youngest designer to be hired by General Motors in 1957 and sketched what became the first Corvette Sting Ray. In 1961 Peter became Carroll Shelby’s first employee and designed the iconic Daytona Coupe that won the World Championship in 1965. There were other cars he designed while with Shelby he worked on the iconic Sh...
Sep 17, 2014•35 min
Richard Adatto is an expert on pre-World War II French aerodynamic cars. A resident of Seattle, Washington, he has written and co-authored numerous books, including From Passion to Perfection ; Curves of Steel ; The Art of Bugatti: Mullin Automotive Museum ; and French Curves: Delahaye – Delage – Talbot-Lago . Delage Style and Design, and Curves of Steel. I’m proud to say I have every one of these titles. He has worked on Videos for the Discovery channel and History as a consultant and on air pe...
Sep 16, 2014•30 min
Beverly and Dennis Little run the Santa Fe Concorso that takes place every year in late September at The Club at Las Campanas in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It is an annual gathering of the finest automobiles in the world. When you combine Dennis, a car designer for over 30 years, with Beverly, the only woman on a male-dominated board, you get a powerful team. They are in fact a couple who have been married for 46 years. And if you think putting on a car gather of this magnitude is an easy task, you a...
Sep 15, 2014•43 min
As a young boy, Michael Furman first picked up a camera to photograph a 1963 Corvette Split Window Coupe, and thus began a life-long love affair with cars and cameras. Throughout his forty-year professional career as a photographer, Michael has had the pleasure to work with the world’s most significant cars and collectors. In 2003 Michael’s efforts turned from commercial projects for manufacturers to editorial with his first two books, Motorcars of the Classic Era and Automobiles of the Chrome A...
Sep 11, 2014•41 min
D. Randy Riggs is an award-winning photojournalist and author with 42 years of publishing experience in the automotive and motorcycle fields. He is the former Senior Editor of Cycle World , Editor-in-Chief of Vette and Sports Car International magazines and has been Editor-in-Chief of Vintage Motorsport magazine since 1997. He is a member of the Society of Automotive Historians, Motor Press Guild, International Motor Press Association, Western Automotive Journalists and American Society of Media...
Sep 09, 2014•40 min
Ed Barr is an Assistant Professor of Technology at McPherson College in McPherson Kansas. McPherson College stands alone as the only school in the United States to provide a bachelor’s degree in Automotive Restoration Technology. Ed grew up in Tyler, Texas. He received a B.A. from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, and an M.A. from the University of Kansas. After graduate school, Ed began a career in art museum administration. Between 1999 and 2005 he served first as the Assistan...
Sep 09, 2014•38 min
Ray Marchica is the owner of Roadster Salon, a restoration company that focuses on building the finest Fiat Roadsters available. The company reflects the passion of its founder, Ray’s father, John Marchica who was a sports car enthusiast with a fondness for all things Italian. John’s affection for Italian sports cars was passed on to his son Ray, who first sold and restored Fiat, MG and Alfa Romeo sports cars as a hobby while attending college. Ray began helping his father in the business about ...
Sep 08, 2014•40 min
Chris Runge owns and operates Runge Karosseria and Flyer Motorwerks. Flyer Moterwerks began in a rural Minnesota barn. The very place where Chris, 25 years prior, sat in his first Porsche while it was being stored for the winter. That Porsche left an impression that he would never forget. A lifelong passion for the automobile and more specifically post WWII German design grew as Chris owned and modified several Porsche vehicles over the years. In 2011 he embarked upon a new journey, to hand hamm...
Sep 04, 2014•30 min
Chris Runge owns and operates Runge Karosseria and Flyer Motorwerks. Flyer Moterwerks began in a rural Minnesota barn. The very place where Chris, 25 years prior, sat in his first Porsche while it was being stored for the winter. That Porsche left an impression that he would never forget. A lifelong passion for the automobile and more specifically post WWII German design grew as Chris owned and modified several Porsche vehicles over the years. In 2011 he embarked upon a new journey, to hand hamm...
Sep 04, 2014•28 min
Tim Miller is the Founder and CEO of Surf City Garage in Huntington Beach California. Surf City Garage is a company that creates superior, high-quality car care products for automotive enthusiasts. Tim’s passion for automobiles goes back to his childhood when he saved up and purchased his first car, a 1967 Pontiac GTO with a 4-speed. He raced on weekends all over southern California. Fast-forward 30 years and Tim’s car collection is now over 130 show-quality vintage muscle cars, known as the Sur...
Sep 03, 2014•35 min
Jesse Alexander has been involved in photography and especially motorsports photography since the early 1950s when he covered the original Mexican Road Race. He spent many years in Europe covering Formula One and famous long distance sports car races including the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the Mille Miglia, and Targa Florio. In that period of time he also photographed theater and music personalities for the New York Times. His work is held by numerous private collectors and has been exhibited in muse...
Sep 02, 2014•33 min
Stacy Pucket is the Specialist Operations Manager at RM Auctions in Ontario, Canada. As a graduate of the School of the Art Institute in Chicago, she didn’t plan on a career in the classic car hobby. But after a lifetime of attending car shows with her parents, it wasn’t until she purchased a 1965 Ford Fairlane 500 that the car bug bit her. Instead of grad school she went to the acclaimed McPherson College and received a degree in auto restoration. She trained as an apprentice mechanic with Merc...
Aug 29, 2014•36 min
Joe Kyte is owner of Topiary Joe. He is a very unique, topiary sculpture artist who creates living garden sculptures. Now I know what you’re thinking. Isn’t this Cars Yeah, Inspiring Automotive Enthusiasts? Entrepreneurs who have figured out how to make a living around their passion for cars? Yes, you’re in the right place. Joe, is an automotive enthusiast through and through, who in many cases has figured out how to combine his passion for cars in to the creative living sculptures he creates fo...
Aug 28, 2014•33 min
David Dickinson is the Creator and Editor of The Old Car Nut Book series. David has had a wide variety of careers, including military service, Real Estate, Investment Banking, and automotive sales that included most aspects in new car dealerships and then as the General Manager of a classic car dealership. More recently, as a consultant to individuals selling their own late model and classic cars, he has helped For Sale By Owners sell their cars for top dollar, using his proven methods as FSBO A...
Aug 27, 2014•39 min
Terry Karges is the Executive Director of the Petersen Automotive Museum. In his first year at the Petersen, Terry introduced vault tours, monthly cruise-ins, adult education programs, movie nights and specialty car events. He has helped to increase overall attendance, creating new events that engage the people of Los Angeles and the global automotive community. Before joining the Petersen, Terry was a senior manager in automotive OEM, motorsports and theme park entertainment divisions, includin...
Aug 26, 2014•32 min
In words and pictures, veteran motorsports journalist Pete Lyons has spent decades covering races all over the world, including classics such as North America’s original “unlimited” Can-Am series, Formula 1 Grand Prix from Argentina to Watkins Glen, and sports car enduros at Daytona, Sebring and Le Mans. Assignments have taken him to Mexico’s Baja 1000, the Pikes Peak Hill Climb, Kenya’s Safari Rally and numerous other events. Pete is a former editor of RACECAR magazine, and he has contributed t...
Aug 25, 2014•36 min
Lance Lambert is the executive producer and host of televisions Vintage Vehicle Show that appears weekly on 101 TV stations and 27 foreign markets and has aired over 450 episodes. He’s an author of the automotive book Fenders, Fins & Friends: Confessions of a Car Guy and staff columnist for Garage Style Magazine, Journal Newspapers, Collector Cars and Hotrodhotline.com . He’s a recipient of the Lee Iacocca Award, an inductee to the Washington State Hot Rod Hall of Fame and the producer of 12...
Aug 22, 2014•35 min
