Dick York is an Event Advisor for the Chattanooga Motorcar Festival. He's an ex-fighter pilot and races Ferraris and historic race cars. The need for speed may have been derived from flying Navy F4 jet fighters off of carriers in the Viet Nam war.
Kevin Caulfield is in charge of business development at the Ferrari restoration experts Motion Products. His role with the Second Annual Chattanooga Motorcar Festival has been to curate 14 special Ferraris that will grace the event and Kevin will be a docent for the VIP tours of these special Ferraris.
Corky Coker is the Grand Marshal for the Second Annual Chattanooga Motorcar Festival, a three-day event that includes a Rallye, Grand Prix, and Concours d’Elegance. Corky assumed the leadership role in the Coker Family’s BF Goodrich tire dealership in 1974 and for the next 45 years he and his team helped define the collector-car hobby.
Brian Redman is The Grand Ambassador of the Chattanooga Motorcar Festival, a three-day event that includes a Rallye, Grand Prix, and Concours d’Elegance. Brian participated in 358 races in his professional career.
Ben Ebel is the User Experience Designer at Michelin’s Customer Experience Lab. His team leads the development of new technology and business strategies that makes Michelin’s services, solutions, and products more irresistible to their customers.
Merry Harlacher chairs the board of the Hilton Head Island Concours d’Elegance and Motoring Festival. This is a multi-day event culminating in the Sunday Concours.
Robert Jepson was the 2019 Hilton Head Concours d’Elegance winner and will be returning this year with his spectacular 1920 Model H Stutz Bearcat. Robert shares many stories about his spectacular collection.
Mark Piekarski is a ‘car guy’ who grew up in the auto industry and built a lifetime career around automobiles. He is actively involved in promoting the ‘car enthusiast hobby’ on Hilton Head as President of the Lowcountry Oyster Motor Driving Society, which is the founding club of Hilton Head Concours de Elegance.
Paul Ianuario is the Chief Judge at the Hilton Head Concours d’Elegance and Motoring Festival. Paul is a retired engineer who spent more than 40 years in the automotive supplier industry with 20 years spent with Michelin Tire Corporation.
Randy Ema is a restoration expert and one of the world’s leading experts on the Duesenberg marque. He will be a guest speaker at this year’s Ironstone Concours d’Elegance talking about these magnificent classic cars.
Brian Blain is one of the Ragtime Racers, a group of passionate automotive enthusiasts who take their 100-year-old race cars around the world to demonstrate on tracks what racing was like 100 years ago.
Rob Miller is on the board of The Ironstone Concours d’Elegance, a role he’s had for over 10 years. The two-days of fun features a number of events including a vintage road rally, a Cars and Stars Evening Gala, Speaker Forums, an Amphicar display, vintage race cars in action to watch tear up the dirt, wine tasting, and a concours.
Dick McClure is on the Advisory Board the Quail Motorsports Gathering and Board of Directors for The Ironstone Concours. He was the Co-Founder along with Martin Swig of the California Mille and participated in many of their rallies and he hosts two tours, the Spring Colors Motoring Tour and the Fall Colors Motoring Tour.
Wayne Craig is the Race Car Chairman and board member of the Ironstone Concours d’Elegance. Chief Docent and Car Sourcing Committee Member of the La Jolla Concours. Chief Docent and Jr. Judge Leader for the Hillsborough Concours and Chairman of the Docent Program of the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance.
Lance “Cap” Caputo has spent 30 years helping individuals and business owners using his skills in automotive reconditioning. He is on a quest to change his career path and re-invent himself.
Melinda Russell is the founder of Women’s Motorsports Network, the parent company of the International Women’s Motorsports Association, the IWMA Nation News Magazine, and Racing Girls Rock podcast.
Daniel Donnelly is the Founder of Garden State Goons Racing where he campaigns a track-ready minivan he’s named ‘The Mom Rocket’ and an off-road sedan called “The Brorover”.
Dr. Gundula Tutt is the Founder of OMNIA Restoration in Freiburg, Germany where she conducts scientific analysis, conservation, and restoration work on original paints and coatings, leather and artificial leather, textile materials, wood lacquers and galvanic surfaces on historic vehicles in active use.
Albert Viator earned a degree in Film and TV production and began his career shooting and producing film and TV programming. His recent book titled An Accidental (PSY) Warrior talks about his time in Viet Nam touring with the Army Infantry during the war tied with stories about his passion for cars.
Wesley Smith is the Founder of STANDARD H, an apparel business where he incorporates his passion for automobiles and bikes into his brand.
Rachel Thurow has been into cars since she was young. Rachel is also an actor and model. You’ll recognize her from her R&D Garage YouTube show. She is always happy to talk to a like-minded car person and especially loves making women feel comfortable about working on their cars!
Rick McCloskey, also known as Rick Mack, is an artist, photographer, and collector car enthusiast. He grew up in the San Fernando Valley in the 50s and 60s. This was a time of car cruising culture along Van Nuys Boulevard, Bob’s Big Boy Drive-ins. Rick created his book titled Van Nuys Boulevard 1972, a fascinating book on California car culture.
Jeff Mason Founded Hero Design Studio and began a career as a designer and entrepreneur. When he and his brother Chris started preparing to race the Carrera Panamericana, it was natural for him to create Driving La Carrera, a podcast and blog to share the stories from their rally racing adventure.
Shel Smith is the CEO at ShiftGate, a modern approach to classic car online auctions. ShiftGate was built for every car collector, enthusiast, and dreamer. Today Shel and his two business partners, Neil and Amit, both past Cars Yeah guests, are helping people connection to cars by marketing intelligence and hyper-targeting advertising that connects active buyers with motivated sellers quickly.
Sam Posey’s racing endeavors spanned 17 seasons, 1965–81, and included a famous victory in 1975 with BMW in the 12 Hours of Sebring. His second career as a TV commentator lasted for over 40 years. He has co-authored a new book titled Sam’s Scrapbook: My Motorsports Memories with his son John.
Giles Chapman writes and talks about the motor car, its industry, its history and its culture. He is the author of 55 books on a huge spectrum of car-related subjects, his latest is The Jaguar Century: 100 Years of Automotive Excellence .
Amit Ahluwalia is Co-Founder and the Chief Technology Officer and at ShiftGate, a modern approach to classic car online auctions that launched on July 21, 2021. ShiftGate was built for every car collector, enthusiast, and dreamer.
Rick Steffens is the driver of the all-new Hot Wheels Mega Wrex™, and is part of the Hot Wheels Monster Trucks Live domestic tour. Not only does Rick drive monster trucks, but he also enjoys working on them. His shop build shocks, rear end housings, four-link bars, everything from A to Z comes out of his shop Sampson 4X4.
Rebecca Schnell is the the only Female driver of Hot Wheels Monster Truck Bigfoot Midwest Madness. She is the first female driver for Hot Wheels Monster Trucks Live, a first-ever collaboration between Hot Wheels and Bigfoot.
John Hotchkis is the President and CEO of Hotchkis Sport Suspension, a performance aftermarket product company. John and his team design and build high quality performance suspension products engineered to perform and designed to be strong. John's a past racer as well.
