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081: Cam Ingram from Road Scholars, Porsche Restoration and Sales Sep 24, 2014

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Cam Ingram is an owner at Road Scholars with locations on the East and West coasts. There he oversees the acquisition, selling, and restoration of historically significant and collectible automobiles, with a focus on Porsche automobiles. They service clients all over the United States and are known for having cars at the top 1% of the market. Cam comes from a family of Porsche enthusiast and his expertise in the marque is unsurpassed. He recently published a fantastic book about Porsche titled Porsche Unexpected; Discoveries in Collecting. It is a wonderful book that he collaborated on with Michael Furman and Randy Leffingwell. I have a copy in my library and I highly recommend it for all automotive enthusiasts and it makes a perfect life time gift for the motorhead in your life.

080: Dwight T. Knowlton and The Little Red Racing Book... Carpe Viam! Sep 23, 2014

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Dwight Knowlton is the founder of 73ideas. It's a boutique agency of sorts, drawing on more than a decade of his experience working with small to mid size businesses and numerous Fortune 500 brands. Dwight’s been a part of growing some startups into international competitors and was recently part of a tech startup that enjoyed a successful exit – selling to a leading investment bank. Now he’s seeking to live his passion. Dwight’s a car guy and has a dual overhead cam where his heart should be. He founded 73ideas, an award winning design and branding firm specializing only in automotive related work. I found Dwight because of a wonderful book he wrote, designed, and illustrated… The Little Red Racing Car. It’s an award winning father and son picture book story about a 1955 Maserati 300S. It's steeped in automotive heritage and features Sir Stirling Moss. His second book will be out later this year and is in collaboration with Sir Stirling – telling the story of his record-crushing win of the 1955 Mille Miglia. Dwight’s tag line? Carpe Viam!

079: Steve Walker is an Artist and Builder of Amazing Custom Vehicles Sep 22, 2014

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Steve Walker is an artist, and a former Resident Artist for the City of Seattle. He draws, paints, creates sculptures, illustrates for magazines and children’s books and he’s done some writing as well. He also penned a cartoon strip for National Lampoon. And he builds cars. Very, very unique cars. He’s been featured on the TV show Monster Garage and the Vintage Vehicle Show. The cars Steve builds are not restoration but his own creations using a vocabulary of recognizable shapes inspired by the racing vehicles I admired as a kid in the 50's. His current studio is called "Close Enough Engineering", where he works with his buddy Kim Hall. They started out building prototypes and proof-of-concept models for engineering companies and inventors and now they build oversized artworks for casinos, shipping work to Vegas, Detroit, D.C., Austria, Canada, China, and Dubai. You can see examples of their art at their website: Closeenoughengineering.com You won’t believe your eyes.

078: Barry Meguiar, Car Crazy Car Care Guy Talks About His Life Around Cars Sep 19, 2014

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Barry Meguiar represents the third generation of the company his grandfather founded in 1901. For Barry, working at Meguiar's started when he was in grade school. Over the years Barry worked in various areas of the business but it was his vision to take their car care products to the consumer marketplace that got things revved up. In 1973 the first consumer product, Meguiar’s Liquid Cleaner Wax was launched. The rest is history and today the average retailer showcased 40 to 50 separate Meguiar's products on its shelves. Meguiar's "men in black" can be found at almost every major car show across the country, and around the world, each and every weekend. Then in the mid 90s Barry created Car Crazy Radio and Television to unite and mobilize car guys everywhere. Car Crazy TV is now viewed globally via the Internet and broadcast television.

077: Andrew Evans is a 16 Year Old Race Car Driver Who's Talents Have Brought Him Success Sep 18, 2014

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Andrew Evans is an up and coming 16 year old race car driver. He is in the driver development program of PR1 Motorsports, which has won over 45 championships, including the 2013 ALMS Driver’s Championship. Andrew started racing karts when he was 8 years old and by 12 he had moved up to shifter karts. By the time he was 14 Andrew reached the top levels of the national karting scene. In 2013, at the age of 15, he had an impressive debut season of Formula F1600 car racing with the Lynx Racing team. He then moved up to the F2000 category with PR1 for 2014 and is currently leading the Pacific Formula F2000 Championship Series. He recently broke the SCCA track record in the Formula Continental category at the Laguna Seca Raceway, where he will soon be competing for the SCCA National Championship. In addition to his on-track efforts, Andrew focuses on marketing and public relations, which has led him into a variety of community activities, as well as web page construction and other social media platforms. Andrew holds the title of my youngest guest here on Cars Yeah.

076: Peter Brock, the Legendary Automotive Designer Part Two Sep 17, 2014

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Part Two of a two-part interview. Where do I begin when introducing an iconic legend in the automotive world? Peter Brock is a designer, a racer, an award-winning author, a speaker, and a photographer. He was the youngest designer to be hired by General Motors in 1957 and sketched what became the first Corvette Sting Ray. In 1961 Peter became Carroll Shelby’s first employee and designed the iconic Daytona Coupe that won the World Championship in 1965. There were other cars he designed while with Shelby he worked on the iconic Shelby GT350 Mustang. His Brock Racing Enterprises, the BRE team with Datsun, is legendary and won title after title. In 1973 he founded Ultralight Products that became the largest hang gliding company in the world and they won numerous championships and set records in hang gliding. Today along side his wife Gayle and their talented team, Peter continues to push BRE in to new adventures and products including his unique Aerovault Trailer and the brand new YouTube series - Peter Brock’s World.

075: Peter Brock, an Automotive Legend Talks About His Life and Automobile Design - Part One Sep 17, 2014

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Where do I begin when introducing an iconic legend in the automotive world? Peter Brock is a designer, a racer, an award-winning author, a speaker, and a photographer. He was the youngest designer to be hired by General Motors in 1957 and sketched what became the first Corvette Sting Ray. In 1961 Peter became Carroll Shelby’s first employee and designed the iconic Daytona Coupe that won the World Championship in 1965. There were other cars he designed while with Shelby he worked on the iconic Shelby GT350 Mustang. His Brock Racing Enterprises, the BRE team with Datsun, is legendary and won title after title. In 1973 he founded Ultralight Products that became the largest hang gliding company in the world and they won numerous championships and set records in hang gliding. Today along side his wife Gayle and their talented team, Peter continues to push BRE in to new adventures and products including his unique Aerovault Trailer and the brand new YouTube series - Peter Brock’s World.

074: Richard Adatto, French Automobile Expert and Publisher Sep 16, 2014

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Richard Adatto is an expert on pre-World War II French aerodynamic cars. A resident of Seattle, Washington, he has written and co-authored numerous books, including From Passion to Perfection; Curves of Steel; The Art of Bugatti: Mullin Automotive Museum; and French Curves: Delahaye – Delage – Talbot-Lago. Delage Style and Design, and Curves of Steel. I’m proud to say I have every one of these titles. He has worked on Videos for the Discovery channel and History as a consultant and on air personality. Richard has judged in national car shows both here in America as well as abroad in the United Kingdom, and France. He has been a judge at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance for more than 25 years and is on their selection committee. In the United Kingdom he is a member of Salon Prive Concours selection committee.

073: Beverly & Dennis Little ShoRun the Santa Fe Concorso Sep 15, 2014

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Beverly and Dennis Little run the Santa Fe Concorso that takes place every year in late September at The Club at Las Campanas in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It is an annual gathering of the finest automobiles in the world. When you combine Dennis, a car designer for over 30 years, with Beverly, the only woman on a male-dominated board, you get a powerful team. They are in fact a couple who have been married for 46 years. And if you think putting on a car gather of this magnitude is an easy task, you are mistaken. Beverly was a public school educator for over 30 years. Now retired, she is the Santa Fe Consorso secretary. Dennis worked at General Motors for 30 years as a designer and he was the Chief Designer of Cadillac Design Studio. He lead many innovative projects over the yeas with Buick, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Chevrolet, Cadillac and Pininfarina Design. Dennis is the president of the Santa Fe Concorso. Over the past four years these two have developed the Santa Fe Concorso in to a top tier event and a concours not to be missed.

072: Michael Furman, Automotive Photographer and Book Publisher Sep 11, 2014

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As a young boy, Michael Furman first picked up a camera to photograph a 1963 Corvette Split Window Coupe, and thus began a life-long love affair with cars and cameras. Throughout his forty-year professional career as a photographer, Michael has had the pleasure to work with the world’s most significant cars and collectors. In 2003 Michael’s efforts turned from commercial projects for manufacturers to editorial with his first two books, Motorcars of the Classic Era and Automobiles of the Chrome Age, 1946-1960. These photographic essays are unique to the publishing world in that they celebrate the beauty and history of the world’s most iconic cars in studio imagery. Many book projects have followed and Michael felt the need to control the content so he started his own publishing company Coachbuilt Press. This changed his professional life and opened a new world of adventure. Since then he’s published many outstanding automotive books including three new books this year. Michael’s immersion in the collector car world is evidenced by his presence at many of the major concours events around the world as a featured artist, author, judge and sponsor.

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