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2370: Tom McIntyre Aug 14, 2023

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Tom McIntyre is a vintage racer who has enjoyed lapping tracks since 1961. However, he's really more a conservator. Tom carries other titles including "successful businessman", who was an entrepreneur in every sense of the word before the noun became a commonplace moniker. But, in the automotive realm, even though his business acumen is primarily auto-bound, he is a caretaker entrusted with protecting, preserving, and, more importantly, enjoying some of the finest racing machines that world's craftsmen and artisans have made.

2369: Evan Ide Aug 10, 2023

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Evan Ide is an automotive historian, author and restorer specializing in automobiles built prior to WWII. He is a Vice President, Senior Specialist with Bonhams Cars auction house and is the founder and principal of Historic Vehicle Services restoration shop. Evan is on the Selection Committee for the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance. An avid collector himself with a largely pre-war collection.

2368: Egon Zweimüller Aug 09, 2023

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Egon Zweimüller is the owner of Egon Zweimüller Automobile & Restauration. Since 1964 the company has been passionate about classic, vintage, and competition automobiles. Their profound knowledge, practical experience, trust, and a true passion for cars has made for lasting relationships with their partners and clients. This summer Egon will bring a very special McLaren M1A to the lawn at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance. Created by Bruce McLaren and McLaren Racing while Bruce was still driving for Cooper in Formula 1, this was the first car to wear the McLaren name and logo. The car was raced extensively and was later eventually found its way to debut in the movie Spin Out featuring Elvis Presley.

2367: Mark Brinker Aug 08, 2023

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Dr. Mark Brinker is a world-renowned orthopedic surgeon with a lifelong passion for helping others and the automobile. Mark is an automotive enthusiast, collector, vintage racer, historian, and journalist. Mark's current car collection includes 35 carefully curated postwar sports cars primarily from Italy, the U.S., and Japan. He will have two cars on the lawn this summer at Pebble Beach.

2366: Amanda Stretton Aug 07, 2023

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Amanda Stretton is the new Master of Ceremonies at the 2023 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance. Amanda is the UK's leading female motorsport, classic car, and automotive TV broadcaster. She is renowned for her passion and knowledge of contemporary and classic racing and her understanding of the international car industry. But Amanda is more than a presenter, unlike her peers she has raced competitively in historic GT and Le Mans prototypes on the world's most famous racetracks and is still the only British female racing driver to have won an International long distance GT race.

2365: John Hennessey Aug 03, 2023

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John Hennessey, founder, and CEO of Hennessey Special Vehicles, Hennessey Performance, Tuner School, and Lonestar Motorsports Park, has been making fast cars faster for more than 32 years. Hennessey is well known for building powerful cars and trucks that deliver astonishing horsepower and neck-snapping acceleration. Constantly pushing the performance envelope, John Hennessey's most recent debut is the $3 million Venom F5 – the world's most powerful pure-combustion hypercar with 1,817 horsepower and an engineered top speed in excess of 300 mph!

2364: Alois Ruf Aug 02, 2023

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Alois Ruf is a legend in the world of unique, tuned Porsche automobiles. The name Ruf has stood for competence in the automotive world for more than 80 years. Ruf Automobile is a family-run automobile manufacturer based in the heart of Bavaria, Germany. Ruf is not only the family name of the company's founder, Alois Ruf Sr., who brought the company to life in 1939, but also a name that stands for technical excellence, authenticity, passion and driving pleasure. The family business is characterized not only by its powerful and elegant vehicles manufactured in-house, but also by the attention to detail and the craftsmanship that goes into every single Ruf car that leaves the Pfaffenhausen plant.

2363: Dave Amantea Aug 01, 2023

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Dave Amantea is the Chief Design Officer at Automobili Pininfarina where for almost 90 years, this iconic design house has shaped the automotive world giving countless luxury and sport vehicles a distinctive shape. They have been the pioneers of a world of purity and innovation. Dave's career includes being a professor at the IAAD University of Design, A Senior Exterior Designer and Team Leader at Jaguar Land Rover, and Senior Exterior Lead Designer at NIO. In 2018 he returned to Italy to join Pininfarina and their Battista Hypercar presented him with a completely new and exciting design challenge. Dave will be with his colleagues on the lawn at this year's Quail, debuting the new Battista.

2362 Jeff Jennings Jul 31, 2023

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Jeff Jennings is the Director of Marketing and Customer Service at Velocity Restorations where they build classic vehicles for the modern driver. Integrating contemporary parts and components with vintage design. Get the vehicle of your dreams with a guaranteed production timeline– that's the Velocity pledge.

2361: Patrick Kelley Jul 27, 2023

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Patrick Kelley is an author with a fascination for all things automotive. Years ago he expanded this passion and started collecting original automobile concept art. Today he shares his new book, Imagine Too! Towards the Future, published by Dalton Watson Fine Books. It takes the reader back to a time when the sky was the limit, dreams and visions were encouraged and restrictions were few with over 600 never-before-seen automobile concept images and over 130 artists. This is a wonderful companion to his earlier IMAGINE! book.

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