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Jason Zaideman is the Founder and President of Operation Combat Bikesaver. He is a United States Army Veteran and Combat Engineer who served Prior to 9/11. Jason started his program in a shed in his back yard as a way to help veterans and first responders. The first bike project in that shed was a green KZ750. At Operation Combat Bikesaver they build bikes with heroes, for heroes, breathing life b...

William Edgar owns Edgar Motorsport and he has been an automotive photographer, journalist, and author since 1968. Born the son of a 1930s outboard hydroplane pilot and legendary sports car racing team owner, John Edgar, William was on-the-ground in time to witness the Fabulous Fifties' golden age of sports car races that included Palm Springs, Santa Barbara, Torrey Pines, Golden Gate Park, and th...

Dennis Koleber has been building model cars professionally for over 31 years. I ran in to Dennis during Car Week while walking the paddock at Laguna Seca. He was carrying a very detailed model of a Ferrari F1 that I couldn't stop admiring. He built his first model at the age of 6 and started winning contests with his builds at the age of 11. His careers over the years have ranged from teaching bal...

Adrian Mitu was Cars Yeah guest number 94 back in October of 2014. He is an artist living in Bucharest, Romania who sketches and paints beautiful works of automotive art in watercolors. What started as a morning ritual, enjoying a coffee while sketching and painting, Adrian had the inspiration to use that coffee as his medium so he dipped his artist's brush in his espresso he discovered a new tech...

Christi Schimpke is a jewelry artist who founded Crash where she uses the cast off sheet metal of crashed exotic cars to form her beautiful jewelry. She has a master's degree in Renaissance Art and worked for years at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. A metalsmithing class set her on a course to start her own jewelry business that she called Minabea, named after her grandmother. Christi's husband D...

Erik Lunseth and Caroline Connor just launched a new, and free, car enthusiast app titled Pedal. The mantra at Pedal is Passion for what moves you. The Pedal app is a social networking community for the motoring enthusiast. Erik spent the last 17 years in the financial services industry and he has served as a board member for the Gasparilla International Film Festival and co-founded the Skyway Fil...

Jeffrey Einhorn, a Manhattan attorney and partner at the Law Offices of Jeffrey Lichtman, has enjoyed a lifelong love affair with driving, restoring, collecting and racing vintage cars. He has been a member of the Former Glory Racing Team of Connecticut since its near inception, which presently fields a 1964 Austin Healey 3000 in races throughout the Eastern Seaboard, and has been a fixture at vin...

Nate Boyer is the owner of Kultured Customs, a top-of-the-line restoration shop in Gardner Kansas. He and his talented team have forged a reputation for immaculate restorations to high-end custom builds and have grown from humble beginnings to become an award-winning shop in the forefront of the collector car world. Seeing a need in the market for rentable workspaces, Nate expanded and opened the...

What initially started out as an attempt to cheer up a sick friend ended up inspiring thousands around the world when John Nikas and a 1953 Austin-Healey 100 – known as Grace – covered more than 300,000 miles visiting children and adults afflicted with cancer. Beset by daily mechanical difficulties and traveling through heat, hail, rain and snow, Grace became a rolling metaphor for people struggli...

John Nikas has dedicated his life to British sports cars, which has seen him own and race models from most of the country's great marques. Born into an Anglophile household, he learned to clean oil spots and diagnose electrical gremlins from a young age, which has served him well in later life. As an accomplished vintage racer, he has collected multiple class championships and special awards from...

Marco Borraccino is the Managing Director and Co-Founder at Singer Reimagined Watch Company in their Geneva Switzerland office. Marco's career has been in the design consulting business, specifically in product design of luxury products, timepieces, consumer electronics, and leather goods. He spent time at the Geneva School of Art and Design and was responsible for the creation and the set up of t...

Scott Nelles is an artist who has worked in cast bronze for over three decades. He designs and creates everything from decorative art to toys and his work displays a childlike playfulness, elegant design, and superb control of his medium using the timeless methods of sand casting and hand finishing his work. His foundry and studio are in northern Michigan. Scott pulls his inspired from the natural...

David Freers has been a professional photographer for over 24 years. You've seen his work in a number of publications including Motor Trend, Motor Trend Classic, Truck Trend, Hot Rod Magazine and he has shot over 30 magazine covers. He coordinates all the photography for the North American International Auto Show in Detroit and one of his many clients is the Ford Motor Company where he has shot fo...

Kristen Hall-Geisler is a freelance automotive journalist and book editor living in Portland, Oregon. She's honed her research and interviewing skills for the New York Times, TechCrunch, How Stuff Works, Popular Science, US News & World Report, Sports Car Market, and many more. There are few things she likes better than falling down the rabbit hole of research and emerging with a book or article t...

Darren Frank is the National Account Executive for Sports Car Market and American Car Collector magazines. He's worked in advertising and sales for over 36 years and was VP of Sales at the New York Times. When he moved in to the collector car hobby and began working with Sports Car Market three years ago, it changed his life being able to integrate his passion for cars in to his vocation. Combinin...

Brad Mcrae is the Founder of Authentic Details in Austin, Texas. His mission is to bring that new car feeling back to owners and teach them the simple ways to maintain the value of their automobiles. Brad is a vehicle transformation specialist with a focus on exotics, daily drivers, show cars, and more with a talent for paint correction. Brad is a life long auto enthusiast and his friends and cust...

Kyle McCullough is the Founder and CEO of Vexen Motors in Scottsdale, Arizona. Vexen Motors is an industry disruptor with a mission to dramatically impact the efforts of climate change. Instead of simply reducing carbon emissions, Kyle plans on removing carbon emission from the atmosphere in multiple industries. Specializing in carbon-negative technology, Vexen focus is on renewable energy. Kyle's...

Lewis Furguson is the Education Program Director at the World of Speed Museum in Willsonville, Oregon. Regular listeners of Cars Yeah will remember I had David Schaeffer, the museum's Director and Ron Huegli, the Curator on Cars Yeah in December of 2015. The museum encompasses many aspects of motorsports including drag racing, road racing, land speed racing, motorcycle racing, open-wheel cars, NAS...

Rick Houston is a veteran journalist with 25 plus years of experience. He's produced countless bylines for a variety of publications and websites and he's authored nine books. His latest book, Dale vs Daytona: The Intimidator's Quest to Win the Great American Race has just been published by Car Tech Books. It's the detailed chronicled events about Dale Earnhardt's attempts to win the Daytona 500....

Murray Smith is the Festival Chairman at the Lime Rock Park Historic Festival that takes place at the historic Lime Rock Park race track in Lakeville, Connecticut during Labor Day weekend. Now in its 35th year, it's five days of events including a concours, parade, a gathering of the marques, an auction, and vintage racing. This year famed British driver Richard Attwood is the Honored guest for th...

Tom Cotter is an accomplished author who wrote the icon six-book series on barn finds starting with The Cobra in the Barn. He's a long time magazine contributor and travels around the country looking for cool cars and writing stories. Michael Alan Ross is an automotive photographer who has taken his passion and love for car design and carved out a career photographing the cars and people that defi...

Davey Hamilton is a former Indy Car driver and is currently the Sponsorship Director for Calumet Products. Calumet Specialty Products Partners, is a leading independent producer of high-quality, specialty hydrocarbon products and fuel products in North America. The company also blends and markets specialty products through its brands including Bel-Ray and Royal Purple. Hamilton has competed in 11...

Dave Friedman is a world-renowned photographer and motion picture still photographer known for his photographs of celebrities, cinema, racing, and classical ballet. In 1962 he became the company photographer for Shelby America capturing some of the biggest icons in racing. He then went on to work on the Ford Le Mans racing program in 1966. His first venture in to motion pictures was working on the...

Jim Edlund and his wife Chris are the Co-Founders of the Danville d'Elegance  and its Foundation. The Foundation was started over 14 years ago and has raised over 3.5 million dollars for Parkinson's research and patient care. Jim has been involved with the Danville d'Elegance since creating the Foundation and the concours takes place every year in September in Danville, California. The event inclu...

Pilar LeMay is the Operations Manager for LeMay Clean, a new car care company she and her husband, Eric LeMay recently launched. Pilar is an east coast native, growing up in Clifton, New Jersey who graduated from Emerson College in Boston. She met Eric at Emerson and they have been married for 21 years. Early in her career she focused on television communications and writing. She then spent 15 yea...