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1386: Dorsey Schroeder is the Competition Director Sep 24, 2019

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Dorsey Schroeder is the Competition Director for the Chattanooga MotorCar Festival's Time Trials. He is currently the Competition Director for the HSR and Trans-Am Chief Steward and since 2015, has served as Race Director for the World Challenge Series. As a member of the SCCA Hall of Fame, Dorsey's career as a racecar driver has earned him 40 professional races in 242 starts including 17 Trans-Am Series wins. In 1971 at the age of 18, he became the first person under the age of 21 to be issued an SCCA National Competition License. He won numerous championships throughout the 90s and in recent years competed in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship races at Daytona and Sebring in the Prototype class. He has served as a color analyst for Fox Sports 1 and was a color analyst for the Speed Channel.

Photo credit: ISC Archives & Research Center via Getty Images

1385: Jim Pace is the Co-Founder of the Chattanooga MotorCar Sep 23, 2019

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Jim Pace is the Co-Founder of the Chattanooga MotorCar Festival, an inaugural event that joins Byron Defoor's 50 Plus Racing Foundation in bringing this fundraising event to Chattanooga, Tennessee. Jim is a professional racecar driver who has competed since 1987. He's earned wins as the Overall Winner and GT Winner in the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona, and at the 12 Hours of Sebring. Jim's a sports car Series Champion in the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) GTU class. He is recognized as a top driver having raced formula, Prototype, GT, and vintage cars around the world including Spa in Belgium and Germany's Nurburgring circuits. He is also a driving instructor, racing coach, and adventure consultant. As a principal in Historic Sportscar Racing since 2015 Jim has been a Race Advisor for the Classic 24 at Daytona and Classic 12 at Sebring.

1384: Rob Fisher has spent a lifetime devoted to machines Sep 20, 2019

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Rob Fisher has spent a lifetime devoted to machines that turn fuel into noise and he loves anything with four wheels, two wheels, or a propeller. Rob is currently the CEO of the up and coming San Francisco Auto Museum located in the heart of the City by the Bay. Prior to finding his dream job with the museum, Rob spent over 30 years leading global sales organizations at 6 different start-ups in Silicon Valley, which took him and his family to London for 6 years. He spends his free time doing all things automotive as the most recent president of a private vintage car club, collecting post-war cars and vintage racing his Formula Atlantic. Rob is a supporter of the Ironstone Concours and he is also the Chairman of the Hillsborough Concours d'Elegance – the longest continually running Concours in the world.

1383: Firman Brown serves on the Ironstone Concours Board Sep 19, 2019

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Firman Brown serves on the Ironstone Concours Board of Directors as well as the Sonora Regional Horseless Carriage Club and he is in his third year on the Calaveras County Grand Jury. His career included farming, working for a wholesale liquor, beer, and wine distributor, and eventually purchasing his own distributorship, which he eventually sold. He lived in Pebble Beach for 30 years and had a great relationship with the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance and after moving to Calaveras County, he founded The Friends of the Calaveras County Fair and the Jumping Frog Jubilee. Today he is the Project Manager for the Utica Hotel restoration and development when he is not in his shop playing with and working on his old cars.

1382: Charles Test is part of the Ragtime Racers Sep 18, 2019

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Charles Test is part of the Ragtime Racers, a group the racer Brian Blain put together where he runs Blain Motorsports Foundation. There Charles helps research the various automobiles they restore. Charles is the great-grandson of Charles E. Test, one of the founders of the National Motor Vehicle Company in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1900-1924. He graduated from the Minneapolis College of Art & Design in 1978 and lives in Minneapolis. He got into motorcycles and his first bike was a 1938 Harley-Davidson Knucklehead. He's had Nashes, a Studebaker, an Edsel, and a Chevy pickup. He started the website Chuckstoyland.com in 2006 where he shares his collections of historic postcards and photos. Charles got into vintage racing in 2014 as a Mechanician with Brian in a 1911 National Racer that Charlie Merz drove to a 7th place finish in the first Indy 500. Today Charles pilots his own 1911 National Speedway Roadster.

1381: Gail Kautz is the Vice-Chairman of Ironstone Vineyards Sep 17, 2019

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Gail Kautz is the Vice-Chairman of Ironstone Vineyards and is involved in all aspects of the family farming operation in Lodi, California. She and her husband John have been married over 60 years and started the Ironstone Concours in 1996. Her education, career, commissions, and board appointments are vast and cover decades of service in California. Her son Stephen is the oldest of their four children and is a third-generation California farmer. He is the President of Ironstone Winery, located in the Sierra Foothills town of Murphys. He is involved in numerous organizations promoting Calaveras County, is a Director of the California Association of Wine Grape Growers, and is past Director of the California Wine Institute. He is also a board member of the Ironstone Concours Foundation that has raised over a million dollars for its charities.

Gail and Stephen are the first mother and son to be guests here on Cars Yeah.

1380: Ryan Skelly is the Sales Manager at Mercedes Benz of Stockton Sep 16, 2019

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Ryan Skelly is the Sales Manager at Mercedes Benz of Stockton in California. His dealership is a sponsor of the Ironstone Concours. For over 30 years, Mercedes Benz of Stockton has earned trust through sincere customer service in their state of the art dealership. They provide new and used cars along with their Certified Technician care team. Ryan began his automotive career working with his father who sold Fords in the 80s in Ohio. He passed out flags and popcorn on sales days and he says if he closes his eyes, and thinks of those days, he can still recall the new-car smell of a new Ford. His career began at Prospect Motors in Jackson and he's been with Mercedes Benz of Stockton for 3 years.

1379: Debbie Briscoe is a wife, mother, former teacher, and vintage Sep 13, 2019

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Debbie Briscoe is a wife, mother, former teacher, and vintage race car driver. She spent 25 years teaching and mentoring children, parents, and fellow teachers. Then one day, while enjoying time at the race track she decided to get a racing license. She quickly became a favorite in the annual ProFormance Ladies Track Day at Pacific Raceways where they called her 'Speed Racer'. She attended the Bondurant Racing School and started racing at tracks including Pacific Raceways, Portland, Spokane, Road America, Indianapolis, and Daytona. In her second season, she added tracks including Sonoma and Laguna Seca. She races with her husband and sons and has been interviewed by past Cars Yeah guest Bob Varsha on Motor Trend and today she has friends who include: Brian Redman, Lyn St. James, and Karen Salvaggio, all past guests on Cars Yeah, plus a whole lot of other racers.

1378: Cassie Nunes is the Host and Event Coordinator of the 5th Sep 12, 2019

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Cassie Nunes is the Host and Event Coordinator of the 5th Annual ADA Charity Car Show that takes place Sunday, November 17 at the MB2 Raceway in Thousand Oaks, California. The show is an annual charity showcase of beautiful cars including classics, domestics, modified and exotics that all come together to raise money for the American Diabetes Association. Their mission is to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by this disease. Cassie owns a 1968 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu and was born and raised into a family of automotive enthusiasts. Her father was a drag racer and her mom builds and shows cars. Being a Type 1 Diabetic, she has discovered how to combine her passion for cars and raise money to fight diabetes.

1377: Kelly Whitton serves as the Director of the Copperstate 1000 Sep 11, 2019

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Kelly Whitton serves as the Director of the Copperstate 1000 Vintage Car Road Rally, as well as the Copperstate Overland Vintage Off-Roading Adventure. Kelly started her career in Washington DC working for a small lobby and political fundraising firm. In 2005, after spending six years teaching English in South Korea and traveling the world, she found herself in Arizona and in the employment of the organizers of the Copperstate 1000 – an event that would change her life. Kelly spends as much of her free time as possible in or around vintage cars. She served as a judge at the Santa Fe Concorso for four years, participates in numerous rallies across the US, and most recently completed and won her class in the 2019 Peking to Pairs Endurance Race.

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