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Alan Johnson is a long time automotive enthusiast who was a high-performance driving instructor, author, racer, and speaker with four SCCA National Championships to his credit. He has class wins in the Sebring 12 hours, a TransAm win and raced in the Daytona 24 Hour. He co-authored the book Driving in Competition, a successful book on road racing and a re-write is coming next year. He was the owne...

Rob Earle is the Managing Director of Gtechniq in the United Kingdom, a worldwide, ultra-durable line of car care products. As the son of two time Grand Prix winning race car driver, Rob's mother was a big influence on his life and passion for cars. Gtechniq was founded in 2000 by Rob's good friend Drew Gil. Drew, a fellow petrolhead, was so dissatisfied with other car care brands he decided to cr...

John Rafert has had many jobs over his 70 plus years. A bartender, copy boy, teacher, owned businesses, an X-Ray tech, and worked in a level 1 trauma center, and a professor of radiologic sciences. He's also been a car guy his whole life. Born and raised in Indianapolis, that's pretty common. In his retirement, John's taken up a new challenge. Learning how to create 3D automotive pieces, and autom...

Peter Vincent is an artist, author, and photographer who's been working with the landscape at the Bonneville Salt Flats for over 20 years, and 40 years of Photographic Art, combining it with the Sub-Culture of Land Speed Racing and the Pop-Culture of the American Hot Rod. He's a regular on the salt every August for "Speed Week" and never misses this gathering, ever. He's published numerous books o...

Jim Canova owns and operates Canova Bros. Auto Detailing located in Silicon Valley. He's been caring for his customer's vehicles since the early 90s. Several of his clients have shown their vehicles on the lawn at Pebble Beach. Jim's also an industrial designer who has created several unique detailing products. His latest venture and design is the Bumbee Seat, a Kickstarter Design Project that fun...

Anna-Louise Felstead is a fine artist who lives in London. She graduated from the Royal College of Art having received first class honors from Central Saint Martins. She is regarded at a reportage artist as her work is often created on location. While she paints a wide variety of subjects many of her pieces are transportation related including modern racing cars. In 2005 she was commissioned by th...

Keith Maher founded Maher Solutions in 2007 and he is the Co-Founder and CEO of VR Motion. His mission is to help people in various sectors of the automotive industry achieve their goals through simulation. He and his team provide professional level training for racers, teams, and institutions around the globe. Keith is the leading authority in automotive simulation, from programming to podiums. H...

Brock Yates Jr. is the son of one of America's best-known automotive journalists and growing up around cars and racing was his life. He played at Watkins Glen while his father raced, he apprenticed with race car builder Ron Nash and he's a veteran of the first Cannonball Sea-to-Shining-Sea memorial Trophy Dash as a 14 year old in 1071, his destiny was cast. Brock's run the one Lap of America, the...

Uwe Mansshardt is a professional stunt driver who lives in Hamberg, Germany. It all started when he was 14 while on a trip to Italy when he witnessed new Ferrari's being tested and the hook was set. He worked as a stuntman in movies at the German Warner Bros. Movie World. That set the course toward training at Rick Seaman's Hollywood Stunt Driver's School in L.A. and from there he earned his FIA r...

John Straub is an automotive photographer from San Diego, California who's been snapping shots of cars since he was 13 years old. His images have been published in numerous publications including Road and Track and The New York Times. He's been the official photographer for the Carmel by the Sea Concours and he is a member of the Motor Press Guild and the San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts. His...

Steve Schenko is an Art Director, illustrator, and automotive enthusiast from Sydney, Australia. He founded 1-of-1 Bespoke where he creates high-end custom design pieces for automotive enthusiasts who have an eye for design. His custom art prints are of cars and bikes that he draws from scratch, and tailored for his clients. In addition to his creations at 1-of-1 Bespoke Steve is the founder at Cu...

Both Bill Warne and Tom Cotter are past guests here on Cars Yeah. Bill is the Founder of the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance, one of the top events in the world. He's been a journalist, photographer, racer, and ran a Porsche 911 in the infamous Cannonball run in 1975. Tom Cotter is an author who wrote the icon six-book series on barn finds starting with The Cobra in the Barn. He's a long time ma...

Craig Watkins grew up in San Francisco and at the age of six started karting around his parents property. That morphed in to dune buggies and Baja Bugs. His college degree and career was in manufacturing engineering. Craig first raced in the SCORE off road racing series throughout the 80s with Greg Aronson winning 8 races in 42 starts in class 10. He club raced his 1973 Porsche 911 and that lead t...

George Saitas is a photographer who specializes in automotive studio and location photography with an emphasis on classic and exotic cars. His favorite projects are commissions where he creates unique, one-of-one single-print, collectable images. He uses photography to create a story and one technique is using psychological layering in his images that act as time bombs in the viewer's unconscious....

Emily Miller is the President of Soulside Network, a public relations and sports marketing firm. She is also the founder of the first women's navigation rally in the U.S., the Rebelle Rally. It is an event that spans 7 days and covers 1,200 miles in California. The focus is on skill, not speed where participants are not allowed any GPS, mobile telephones, nor outside assistance. In her driving adv...

Jerry Lane is an automotive artist who has been drawing cars since he was five years old. Since then he's bee creating original automotive drawings for collectors around the world. Jerry has painted full size murals, color sketches, an oil paintings of many different marques and genres from engine details to collector cars, race cars, and multi-view works. You'll find Jerry at car events around th...

Aaron Jenkins is the Editor-in-Chief at Forza magazine. Forza is a Ferrari focused publication packed with intriguing articles from the heart of the Ferrari world including incisive road tests, history, race reports, insider news, and stunning photography. Published by Ross Periodicals, Forza is one of excellent automotive publications including Excellence, Bimmer, and Corvette. Aaron grew up in c...

Sid Barron is the General Manager at Bentley Atlanta. Bentley Atlanta is the largest Bentley only dealership in the nation. Sid is a longtime Atlanta resident who is originally from Honduras. He started his career in the automotive business in 1986 at a Chrysler dealership and then he migrated to BMW. He was the General Manager at a BMW/Mini dealership and then the Vice President of Operations at...

John Leverett is the Director of Product Planning and Engineering at Panoz road cars, the Panoz race cars and contract engineering projects. This includes the GT-RA, GT-WC, and GTS race cars. He supervises the team of fabricators and mechanics responsible for prototyping and production implementation of new and existing products. At Panoz they provide a wide range of design, engineering, manufactu...

Alan Kidson is the owner of German Car Repair in Alpharetta Georgia, north of Atlanta. They specialize in the service and repair of Audi, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Mini, Porsche, and Volkswagen automobiles. He and his talented team have over 130 years of combined experience and their facility is equipped with state of the art tools and computerized diagnostic equipment. Alan's been working on German car...

Jim Thomas is the Founder and President of Onsite Shine in Atlanta, Georgia and Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina. His company is a mobile detailing business that he started after detailing aircraft and cars as a teenager. Today, with over 20 years of experience he and his talented team provide their clients with superior service and expertise and they have become 'Atlanta's Most Wanted' personalized d...

Will Campbell is the General Manager of Ferrari Maserati of Atlanta. The company was founded three decades ago and Will took over daily operations in 2008. The team at Ferrari Maserati of Atlanta are passionate about Italian automotive heritage and their factory-trained professionals ensure your Ferrari and Maserati are well cared for. They are enthusiasts caring for enthusiasts Born and raised in...

Yvan Lacroix is from Granby Quebec, Canada. He's a serial entrepreneur, having run a Volvo restoration shop and Répare-Brise, a franchised full service automotive reconditioning company his wife who manages that business. He has a lifelong passion for racing and he volunteers at his local dirt track and he spent years as a tech inspector for a variety of race tracks. Currently Yvan is the Regional...

Dennis Mattish is a life-long San Jose native who cut his teeth at the San Jose racetracks, spending Friday nights at Alviso Speedway, and Saturday nights at San Jose Speedway. For over 40 years Dennis has followed motorsports around the US and in England, with his camera and pen. He's been published locally and nationally in numerous publications. Dennis is a consistent recipient of the John Ryan...

Martin Miskolci is the founder and artist behind Petrolified. His goal is to bring automotive inspired art to the masses and back in 2013 Martin started doing just that. His first poster was the infamous "Wall of Wheels". Living and working in Slovakia his online store brings his art to enthusiasts around the world in the form of prints, monochromes, posters, t-shirts, and more. His graphic illust...