Kenny Haük is the owner and founder of River Raider Off Road and Haük Designs. It all started in his parent’s garage in 2007 and quickly grew. Kenny focused his time designing and building quality products for the Jeep market. Then in 2010 Haük Designs was formed and it’s there that Kenny and his talented team design, build, and offer unique and high quality parts and accessories for Jeeps. They also build the finest turn-key off road 4X4 vehicles available. The Haük designed River Raider ST Tru...
Mar 31, 2016•33 min
Ray Shaffer is the manager of the Classic and Delivery Center at the Porsche Experience Center in Atlanta, Georgia. This 27.4 acre complex is a reflection of Porsches past, present, and future. The facility includes a Human Performance training facility, business center, meeting areas, the Driving Simulator Center, Classic Workshop, and an exclusive fine dining restaurant. In the Heritage Center and Classic Gallery Ray manages an environment for guests to experience the evolution of the Porsche ...
Mar 30, 2016•38 min
Dan Davis is the Publisher and Editor at Victory Lane magazine in Palo Alto, California. Victory Lane is a monthly news and feature publication with the focus on vintage auto racing. The articles cover vintage racing events, vintage rallying, automotive collecting, and focus on individuals, their racecars, drivers, and teams. Dan also includes a classified section where there are vintage racecars and collector cars for sale. The magazine is also a go-to source for upcoming events, resources, par...
Mar 29, 2016•34 min
Ryan Brutt is The Automotive Archaeologist. Ryan shares his expeditions across the Mid-West looking for automotive and motorcycle barn finds. His goal is to inspire fellow automotive enthusiasts to go out and see the world around them and visit junkyards and old barns for great old vehicles. His passion runs so deep that he’s written a book about his travels and finds titled Amazing Barn Finds And Roadside Relics, published by Motorbooks, Zenith Press.
Mar 28, 2016•35 min
Frank Adeli is the founder and owner of Exclusive Option. Starting from an obsessive dilemma of how to skillfully modify the exterior and especially the interior of his personal 911 in an uprated OEM+ manner, he found great difficulty in sourcing rare and exclusive interior parts, so he decided to create them himself. At Exclusive Option he has created a team that specializes in the production of extremely high quality factory style leather and alcantara options for late model Porsches. There Fr...
Mar 25, 2016•46 min
Dr. Andrew Feustel is a NASA Astronaut and Mission Specialist whose passion early in life to wrench on cars came full circle when he flew in to space on board the Space Shuttle Atlantis. He spent 13 days in space improving the Hubble Space Telescope’s observatory’s capabilities, removing frozen bolts, stripped screws, and stuck handrails. Then he flew on Space Shuttle Endeavour’s final mission to the International Space Station. Andrew served as the lead space walker on that trip delivering the ...
Mar 24, 2016•36 min
Scot Elkins is the Chief Operating Officer for the non-profit Motorsports Safety Foundation (MSF). In addition to his role with MSF, Scot is a Race Director for the prestigious Mazda Road to Indy which is the development series for IndyCar. Scot is also a Steward for IndyCar while simultaneously owning TEG Motorsports Consulting, which is a company providing logistical, operational and engineering services to motorsports and automotive companies. Scot’s past includes work with IMSA, the Champ Ca...
Mar 23, 2016•35 min
Dave & Steve Schardt own and operate Forgeline Motorsports in Dayton, Ohio, a company that was founded in 1994. Steve is the Founder and Sales Manager and Dave is the President. It's there that these two brothers and a talented team manufacture the world’s finest custom made-to-order lightweight forged aluminum, street and racing performance wheels. For over 20 years Steve and David have applied their racing experience and passion for motorsports to meet their customers demands for quality p...
Mar 22, 2016•38 min
Ron Fellows is recognized as one of North America’s most versatile and successful road racing drivers; winning races and championships from NASCAR to long distance sports car events. He is Co-Owner at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park and partner at Ron Fellows Performance Driving School. As a charter member of Corvette Racing, Ron was part of the historic first victories for the iconic marque in 2001 at the Rolex 24 at Daytona the 24 Hours of Le Mans and Mobil 1 12 Hours of Sebring in 2002. He has ...
Mar 21, 2016•31 min
Christian Messina Hembry laid the foundation for MessinaClassics in 2011 located in Stuttgart, Germany. He started with a focus on vintage Vespas which quickly grew in to all marques of collectible automobiles. He provides a platform where buyers and sellers can rely on his expertise, integrity, and attention to detail, whether selling one vehicle or your entire collection. His relationship with automotive collectors continues to grow and you’ll find classic cars at MessinaClassics ranging from ...
Mar 18, 2016•27 min
Manfred Scharmach is the CEO and President at Scharmach Enterprises in Tacoma, Washington. He oversees BMW Northwest, Norhwest Mini, Seattle Mini, and the Northwest Pre-Owned Center. His is the only family owned BMW Dealership in the Puget Sound and one of the oldest BMW dealerships in the nation. The seeds of inspiration for his lifelong career, spanning over four decades, were planted by the entrepreneurial spirit of his father, Werner Scharmach who founded European Motors and BMW Northwest in...
Mar 17, 2016•41 min
Dave Barthmuss is the Group Manager for General Motors’ West Coast Region Communications team that includes all 24 states west of the Mississippi. Dave is a frequent speaker on the topics of alternative fuels, communication best practices, and various GM business topics. His work has earned several awards from PRSA including the 2013 PR Professional of the Year Award, Sabre, PR Week, and the Publicity Club of Chicago, as well as GM Chairman’s Honors for achievements in advanced technology commun...
Mar 16, 2016•38 min
Austin Cabot is the editor at TrackTuned.com, a website and podcast, SlipAngle, founded by drivers, for drivers. Austin has a long pedigree of hobby addiction including but not limited to: photography, travel, driving, people, and cars - essentially, everything that is needed for tracktuned.com to work. Helping others learn to go fast on track and sharing the amazing sport of auto racing is what he is passionate about. Austin recently began coaching at the Porsche Experience Center in Atlanta. H...
Mar 15, 2016•30 min
Jeff Mosing is the CEO and Director at Mosing Motorcars in Austin, Texas. He started racing professionally in 2009 and runs in the SCCA’s Mazda MX-5 Cup, The IMSA Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge, the Continental Sports car Challenge and the IMSA Weathertech series. He also buys and sells collector cars. Mosing Motorcars has been open since 2012. His own collection includes an eclectic mix from a 1957 Oldsmobile 98 to a 2015 Porsche 918 Spyder. At Mosing Motorcars, they send off each car the sell with ...
Mar 14, 2016•36 min
Tony Parella is the owner of SportsCar Vintage Racing Association, SVRA. After 30 years of success in the telecommunications industry he shifted his career focus to his true passion: auto racing. He raced dirt ovals as a young man and today Tony focuses on vintage racing. Since his acquisition of SVRA Tony has transformed it from a club racing group in to a full-fledged business with a national platform. In 2016 the SVRA will present 16 race weekends at all the major American road courses includ...
Mar 11, 2016•37 min
Brian Redman participated in 358 races in his professional career. He haled from Great Britain and was victorious, outright or in his class, in 94 of those races. He finished in the top three 177 times. His tally of classic long-distance victories included the Targa Florio, Daytona 24 Hours (three times), Sebring 12 Hours twice, Nürburgring 1000Km twice, and at the Spa 1000Km four times. He won four long –distance road racing team championships and five individual road-racing championships, the ...
Mar 10, 2016•41 min
Alain Lévesque is a Canadian artists recognized by automotive enthusiasts throughout the world. He has painted posters for Barrett-Jackson, the New York City Concours d’Elegance in Central Park, Retromobile in Paris, and the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. His art is collected by celebrities including: Jay Leno, Jerry Seinfeld, Nick Mason and I’m proud to say several of his prints hang in my home as well. Alain’s work has been published in numerous international magazines and publications. Ins...
Mar 09, 2016•32 min
Terry Kell owns and operates The Farm, located near Ogden in the rolling countryside of Eastern Quebec. The Farm is a gathering place for business owners and executives to meet, build relationships, and discuss ideas and targets. The Farm is also a place where Terry furthers his passion for automobiles. Art and The Automobile is an annual forum Terry conducts at The Farm where the new Callaway C16 supercar was unveiled and they raised thousands of dollars for local charities. His other signature...
Mar 08, 2016•34 min
Skip Barber is the President and the sole owner of the world’s most beautiful and historically significant motorsports and automotive venues Lime Rock Park. He started racing in 1958 and he won his first race and held 32 track records around the country. He founded the Skip Barber Racing School in 1975 and built it in to a premier organization that launched many professional driver’s careers. Skip sold the school in 1999 and in 1983 he acquired Lime Rock Park with six other investors. Since buyi...
Mar 07, 2016•35 min
Todd Dakarmen owns L.A. Dismantler, your source for quality late model Porsche parts. He purchased his first Porsche at age sixteen and has taken apart more cars than most body shops. As a teen, when Todd would need parts for his Porsches, he would buy a wrecked car, use what he needed, and sell the rest for a little profit. Later in life he turned his hobby in to a full time business and Los Angeles Dismantler was born. Since its conception Todd has seen upwards of 5,000 Porsches cycle through ...
Mar 04, 2016•30 min
Todd Cooperider is the President of ESOTERIC - Fine Auto Finishing, which includes Esoteric Auto Detail, EsotericCarCare.com, and the Elite Detailer Academy based out of New Albany, Ohio. Over the years Todd has published hundreds of educational detailing articles, and has trained professional detailers from all around the world in his Elite Detailer Academy. He provides consulting support to OEM vehicle manufacturers and has a worldwide reputation and following in the Ferrari community providin...
Mar 03, 2016•33 min
Michael Zimicki, owner of Sliderule Motorsport Inc., is a driving coach who’s been building drivers in to racers since 1990. He’s worked with many great drivers including: Graham Rahal, Ryan Hunter-Reay, Nick Harvey, Ashley Freiberg, Pippa Mann, Danica Patrick, and many others. His approach to driver coaching is to pull all the tools necessary together that they need to achieve success. He coaches his drivers to be 24 hours a day athletes and helps them to understand the “why” and “what” they ar...
Mar 02, 2016•37 min
Jerry Haussler has owned and run Rallyebadge.com since 1998. He scours the world finding authentic vintage automotive rallye badges and automobilia for enthusiasts like you and me. After years of working in the technology sector Jerry decided to follow his passion for vintage cars and turned his hobby collection badges and other automotive memorabilia in to a business. If you own an older vehicle chances are Jerry has an authentic club or event badge that will be period correct to your vehicle. ...
Mar 01, 2016•30 min
Adam Carolla is a comedian, actor, podcaster, radio personality, TV host and New York Times best-selling author. Add to all this Adam’s also a vintage racer. You will find the Ace-Man Adam on line at AdamCarolla.com, The Adam Carolla Show where you can listen to him weekly on his podcast Car Cast Show.com that you will find on his website, iTunes or the Adam Carolla Mobile App. He recently produced the film Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman and it’s available on DVD at Amazon or you can wa...
Feb 29, 2016•31 min
Craig Booth and his wife Pamela are automotive ceramic artists who put their talents to work creating sculptures of cars and the characters who drive them. His Car-Toons company is a platform for his studio and on line business where Craig views cars as unique machines with lives of their own. Their whimsical, beautiful works of art are often made-to-order and customized to match his automobiles, bikes, boats, and even the people who own them. The details are so precise in their pieces that they...
Feb 26, 2016•25 min
Bob Ingram is a General Partner at Hatteras Venture Partners, a venture capital firm that invests in early stage life science companies. Prior to joining Hatteras he was CEO at Glaxo-Wellcome. His passion for automobiles has spanned his life and his success in business lead him to collecting car, more specifically Porsches. The Ingram collection is focused on preserving automotive history. He often drives, shows, and shares his cars and many are featured in the book Porsche Unexpected from Coach...
Feb 25, 2016•36 min
Paul Cain began his career at TRW Space and Defense as an industrial engineer before transitioning to TRW Automotive, working in program management in the early launch of automotive airbag crash sensors and airbag inflators. He was TRW's Director of Operations for TRW Steering and Suspension in Sydney, Australia before moving to BEI Duncan Electronics in 1999 as Director of Sales, Marketing and Program Management. He was also General Manager of Piher Sensors and Controls, North America. Paul is ...
Feb 24, 2016•39 min
Bill Fleischman is the Chairman of the Board and CEO at W/F Investment Corporation and W/F Classic Cars in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 2008, W/F Classic Cars specializes in the acquisition, restoration, and sale of unique collector cars best described as exotics and post war classics. Future plans include a new facility where there will be a showroom, automotive storage facility for customer’s cars, and a clubhouse. In addition to a safe place to store vehicles an exclusive clubhouse wil...
Feb 23, 2016•27 min
Chad McQueen is a race car driver, actor, film producer, and consummate automotive enthusiast. He has raced in many forms of motorsports including Motocross, the Baja 1000, SCCA, Vintage events, and others. He’s a big fan of early Porsches and still owns and drives his father’s 1958 Speedster in the hills around Los Angeles. It was the first new car his father purchased. Most recently Chad was a producer on a feature documentary titled Steve McQueen, The Man & Le Mans. It’s the story of a li...
Feb 22, 2016•33 min
Norman Mayersohn spent 11 years at The New York Times, where he served as the deputy editor of the paper’s Automobiles section. At The Times, he was responsible for assigning and editing articles that covered a broad array of topics, including new model reviews, technology, environmental issues, travel, and motorsports. Norman also led the expansion of Autos coverage to online platforms, including a blog, email newsletter, social media outreach and real-time coverage of key events. Norman’s firs...
Feb 19, 2016•31 min
