Michael Robinson is the CEO and Design Director at ED Design in Turin, Italy. He was born in Whittier, California and has lived in Italy since 1979. ED Design is a design and engineering company creating the automotive and transportation industry. Previously Michael was the Design Director at Bertone, Fiat, and Lancia. He’s worked as a designer with Ford and Volvo, Opel, Ghia, and he’s contributed to numerous other automotive marques. In addition to the automotive sector Michael designed the new...
Oct 14, 2015•30 min
Michael Robinson is the CEO and Design Director at ED Design in Turin, Italy. He was born in Whittier, California and has lived in Italy since 1979. ED Design is a design and engineering company creating the automotive and transportation industry. Previously Michael was the Design Director at Bertone, Fiat, and Lancia. He’s worked as a designer with Ford and Volvo, Opel, Ghia, and he’s contributed to numerous other automotive marques. In addition to the automotive sector Michael designed the new...
Oct 14, 2015•32 min
Kelly Telfer is an artist in who paints all kinds of subjects but his passion is with automobiles, motorcycles, and racing. He lives and paints in San Jose, California and his artwork can be found in galleries, magazines, private homes, and corporate collections around the world. He is currently featured in a one-man show at Canepa Motorsports Museum. You’ll also find his art on Guglielmo wine labels and he’s created fine art, design, and marketing work for international and national motorsports...
Oct 13, 2015•35 min
Born in Venezuela and living in Miami, Florida, Henrique Cisneros is the Principal at MOMO Italy, the iconic automotive and motorsports accessories company. Above everything he’s an automotive enthusiast who’s mission is to rebuild the MOMO brand placing it back in the legendary position it once occupied. He races in the Porsche GT3 Cup race series and claimed the Championship title in 2010 and 2011. In 2013 he finished third in the competitive GTC class of the American Le Mans Series and in 201...
Oct 12, 2015•35 min
Marco Visconti is the principal at Marco Visconti Architects in Turin, Italy. There he has wrapped his passion for the automobile in to many of the projects he designs. Some of his achievements including the industrial complex at Fiat Melfi, computer centers for railways, showrooms for cars in Berlin, Paris, and London. He designed the halls mechanics, painting, and restaurant for Ferrari in Maranello and conference room of the automobile museum in Turin. His focus is on a sensitivity to global ...
Oct 09, 2015•41 min
Bob Colaizzi is an automotive artist whose career path was based on Yogi Berra’s quote, “When you get to the fork in the road, take it!” In 1967, after going down several paths, he started a PR firm with two other Chrysler guys where they focused on annual reports. That fork in the road lasted 45 years. Today, in his retirement, Bob’s back at doing what he loves, creating automotive art. His drawings and paintings of automobiles are wonderful and include cars from every marque and time.
Oct 08, 2015•33 min
Christopher Holewski is as passionate about cars as he is about design. After purchasing a 1975 BMW 2002, he had no money to repair or restore the car. This challenge would soon lead to the formation of Manual Designs, Christopher's company where he creates hand-made artwork of classic cars using a stencil & spray paint technique that he learned during his college years studying Graphic Design. Christopher's work has been featured in various publications including Top Gear magazine and Uncra...
Oct 07, 2015•33 min
Chris Benny is the owner of Prova Motorsports in Seattle Washington. There he and his talented team work on special interest and European sports cars. Their goal is to improve his customer’s experience on the road and track. Chris has over 15 years of experience in road racing, chassis setup and alignment, racing, and instructing with ProFormance Racing School at Pacific Raceway. He races with ICSCC Conference in an Alfa Romeo and coaches other Alfa owners on how to drive better on the street an...
Oct 06, 2015•30 min
Renee Crist is the Collections Manager at the LeMay - America’s Car Museum located in Tacoma, Washington. There she is responsible for over 300 historic automobiles that span over 100 years of automotive history. Renee is a member of the Advisory Board for the Pacific Northwest Concours d’Elegance and is a member of the Classic Car Club of America, the Cadillac LaSalle Club of America and numerous other local and regional automotive clubs. She is also a member of the National Association of Auto...
Oct 05, 2015•40 min
Merrill Powell was a fiberglass pioneer at Victress Manufacturing in the 1950s. The company was founded by Doc Boyce-Smith in1952 when the first Victress S1A sports car rolled on to the streets of Southern California. In 1953 Merrill joined the company and until Victress Manufacturing was sold in 1961 they accomplished more than any of their competition at that time. One of their cars became the world’s fastest sports car at Bonneville. Past Cars Yeah guest Geoff Hacker of Forgotten Fiberglass i...
Oct 02, 2015•36 min
Peter Volny is the Founder of the Concours in the Hills that will celebrate it’s third year on Saturday, February 13, 2016 in Fountain Hills Arizona. In 2015 the event drew 444 cars and 10,000 spectators and raised well over $60,000 for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Scottsdale. Peter’s career included growing one of Canada’s most successful advertising agencies, Griffin Bacal Volny, who’s clients include many major players in the automotive field. He’s been an editorial advisor and regular...
Oct 01, 2015•32 min
Tom Long is the CEO of Acme Trading company, an agent of Amalgam, Fine Model Cars. Every Amalgam model is made entirely by hand from over 2,000 parts. The process of developing each model and creating the master patterns take at least 3,000 man-hours. Each part is extremely accurate to the real car and in total the time taken to machine, cast, hand fettle, paint, polish, and assemble each model is in excess of 350 hours of highly skilled work. Each model is custom built for it’s new owner to his...
Sep 30, 2015•33 min
Matteo Panini is the President of iXOOST in Modena Italy where he was born. He studied economics at the University and his secondary schooling was in Maranello at the Ferrari Institute. At IXOOST he designs and builds unique automotive exhaust systems that are audio docks and stereo speakers using real F1 exhausts as acoustic chambers. His works of art are customized for his customers and are far more than a simple audio dock. They connect the engine sounds of an F1 racecar with music and art. T...
Sep 29, 2015•34 min
Steve Dorsey has been a professional auctioneer for over twenty years. He got his start in 1988 with Pacific Northwest-based Silver Auctions in the collector car auction business. As a licensed real estate broker, working with two of the largest real estate auctioneering firms in the business - Auction.com and the Kennedy-Wilson Group. At SR Dorsey Auctioneering he and his auctioneering crew are the premier auctioneering team on Portland's fundraising circuit and they have helped to raise tens o...
Sep 28, 2015•33 min
Steward Codling has been working in the automotive and motorsports field for over 17 years as a journalist and broadcaster. He is the Executive Editor of Autosport andF1 Racing magazines. Some of his past roles were working at Motor Sport, Evo, Octane, and Redline magazines as well. He handled PR for the first year of the Lamborghini Super Trofeo race series and he drove the pace car at Spa-Francorchamps! His current project includes the book Lamborghini Supercars 50 Years where he teamed up wit...
Sep 25, 2015•39 min
James Mann is a professional photographer but first he’s a dyed-in-the-wool car and motorcycle nut. He lives in Dorset, in the United Kingdom, and travels around the world photographing people, landscapes, and his favorite subjects, cars and motorcycles. His images have appeared in over 50 books, hundreds of magazines and his latest works is a marvelous book titled Lamborghini Supercars 50 Years . James has participated in classic saloon car racing and classic rallies and enjoys time in his shop...
Sep 24, 2015•43 min
Keith Collins is a Los Angeles-based artist and designer who has been creating handmade tapestries for over five decades. His works include interior rugs for residences and businesses, custom car mats, and original wall hangings and paintings. His creations include a selection of wall tapestries consisting of more than 100 colors of mixed media. Through a labor intensive-process, and sewn with vintage sewing machines, Keith’s tapestries are incredible paintings created in fabric. His art hangs i...
Sep 23, 2015•37 min
Lyn St. James has raced cars for over 40 years. She was the 1992 Indy 500 Rookie of the Year, has victories at the 24 Hours of Daytona, 12 Hours of Sebring, Watkins Glen, Elkhart Lake and set closed course speed records of over 225 mph. She’s an author, a motivational speaker, and was named by Sports Illustrated for Women, One of the Top 100 Women Athletes of the Century. She founded the Women in the Winner’s Circle Foundation and her legacy is one of inspiration, encouragement, perseverance, an...
Sep 22, 2015•40 min
Charles Baer is the the Founder and President at CAVOQ where the mantra is Drive Everything. It’s a place where automotive enthusiasts have access to the most discerning driving experiences possible. His career history included 9 years at Honda Motors in their R&D accessory division and then he spent time at Paccar in their Kenworth design studio. He earned his masters degree at the Foster School of Business and is taking his years of experience and passion for automobiles in to the startup ...
Sep 21, 2015•34 min
John Borchelt is the founder and president of MAcarbon Inc. MAcarbon specializes in the manufacturing of carbon fiber interior components for high-end and exotic automobiles. MAcarbon has the most extensive carbon product line for Ferrari, Porsche, McLaren, and Lamborghini. They are headquartered in the San Francisco Bay area with their production workshops in Canada and Belgium. Their website is an example of cutting edge design with configurators that allow customers to visualize their vehicle...
Sep 18, 2015•39 min
Arvind Jain is the Co-founder and President of SHIFTMobility. SHIFTMobility's innovative All-In-One platform for the auto industry underpins all of its technologies and is unique in its ability to vertically integrate manufacturers, distributors, and repair centers through any mobile device – revolutionizing the way businesses collaborate and grow. Gone are the days of separate systems for each business need. SHIFTMobility brings it all together by combining the benefits of connectivity over a c...
Sep 17, 2015•33 min
Ralph Gilles was appointed Head of Design at Fiat Chrysler Automotive, Global in April 2015. He is also a member of the Group Executive Council with FCA. Since joining Chrysler as a designer in 1992, Ralph has held numerous positions in design and business administration. He has served as the Senior Vice President, Product Design and CEO of Motorsports for FCA North America and for the SRT and Dodge brands. He’s extremely active outside of the Company as well, serving as the executive sponsor fo...
Sep 16, 2015•35 min
Bill Amos has built up a wonderful collection of cars throughout his career as a physician. It doesn't hurt living on Amelia Island, Florida where in March the area becomes the center of car universe. His philosophy on collecting cars is simple. Don’t buy them as an investment. Buy cars to enjoy and drive them. Bill has some great advisors when it comes to buying cars: Ray Shaffer, Ramsey Potts, and friends Hurley Haywood, Dan Davis, Magnus Walker, and the Ingram Family to name just a few. While...
Sep 15, 2015•33 min
Richard Elsliger is an automotive fiction author in Chicago, Illinois who writes at every available opportunity. He grew up in the east end of Toronto, an area known as a hotbed of muscle cars throughout the 60s, 70s, and 80s. He remembers his father’s ’32 Ford hotrod that was stored in the backyard as key element in his childhood. Richard’s automotive passion manifests itself in his fictional horror stories about cars and the characters who drive them include the titles Road Closed, Transfusion...
Sep 14, 2015•32 min
Sandy Cotterman found the motorsports party rather late in life. Under the Jaguar marque she became a passionate enthusiast and is a JCNA certified judge for prestigious concours events up and down the east coast. Her credentialed media pass has landed her at the top concours events researching the cars of the world’s finest automotive museums. She’s been in the pits at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Monaco’s F1, Daytona, and Sebring to name just a few. She’s attended high performance driving courses ...
Sep 11, 2015•32 min
John Clinard joined the Ford Motor Company in 1972. That’s the same year he married his wife Linda and they attended a racing driver’s school on their honeymoon. His 38-year career with Ford spanned positions in Marketing, Public Affairs, Motorsport, and Product Planning. After retiring in 2011 he immediately returned to consult for Ford in automotive public relations. He’s competed in vintage and SCCA racing, he’s been published, and he consults for museums as well. John’s the recipient of the ...
Sep 10, 2015•36 min
Ken Gross is an award winning automotive journalist and has contributed to almost every car magazine you’ve ever enjoyed reading. He was the Executive Director of the Petersen Automotive Museum and has served as Guest Curator for numerous other prestigious museums around the country. Along with exhibition catalogs, Ken’s written fifteen automotive books and has been a Chief Class Judge for 25 years at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance and he also serves on their Selection Committee. He’s judg...
Sep 09, 2015•36 min
Michael Austin is the Editor-in-Chief of Autoblog.com His first automobile was a Dukes of Hazard General Lee pedal car. Mike's career in journalism started as a gopher at Automobile Magazine, followed by a brief internship at CAR in London. He was on staff during mph Magazine's short time on earth and more recently was part of the team at Car and Driver and Popular Mechanics magazines.
Sep 08, 2015•34 min
Bradley Price Bradley Price is an industrial designer and a certified vintage car nut. He settled in New York to pursue a design career encompassing consumer electronics, appliances, furniture, and branding. There he founded the blog Automobiliac, writing about and photographing classic cars alongside his day job. In 2011 Bradley founded Autodromo as a way to marry his background in design with his lifelong passion for vintage cars. Since the launch of Autodromo, Bradley has expanded his product...
Sep 07, 2015•40 min
Greg Long is the author of the automotive novel Found: The Lives of Interesting Cars and How They Were Discovered . This is Greg's first venture in to writing and he's hit a home run. He's always been interested in innovative cars like the Citroen. He spent twenty years in the tech world and now works at Amazon Publishing where he teaches others how to self-publish just like he has. This book has a wonderful twist and is unlike other books with similar titles. You're gonna love Found ....
Sep 04, 2015•30 min
