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Brock Yates

Brock Yates is an American journalist and author. He was longtime executive editor of Car and Driver, an American automotive magazine. He was a pit reporter for the CBS coverage of NASCAR Sprint Cup (then Winston) series races in the 1980s, including the Daytona 500. He was also one of two commentators on the TNN show American Sports Cavalcade...

David E. Davis, Jr.

David E. Davis, Jr. is an automobile journalist and magazine publisher. His career in the automotive industry spanned from race car driver, factory worker and car salesman to ad salesman with Road & Track and copywriter for Corvette advertisements before becoming a writer for Car and Driver magazine in 1962. He wrote for that publication...

Eddie oversees all aspects of CAR and DRIVER's content, both in print and digital. Alterman's long experience with automotive media include stints as founder/editor-in-chief of online enthusiast website www.motivemag.com, the founder/editor-in-chief of MPH Magazine, the senior editor at Automobile Magazine...

Robert Bondurant is an American former racecar driver who raced for the Ferrari and Eagle teams in Formula One.

During his teens, Bondurant raced an Indian motorcycle on dirt ovals. In 1956 he began sports car racing with Morgan and started to attract attention when he won the West Coast "B" production Championship, in a Chevrolet...

With a lifetime of experience in automobile restoration under his belt, master car restorer Wayne Carini has a resume that includes body and paint work on rare car collections owned by the likes of David Letterman, tennis great Ivan Lendl and the DuPont family. He's been featured in the New York Times as well as numerous automobile magazines,...

John Heinricy

John Heinricy is a U.S. automotive engineer and noted racecar driver.

Heinricy has had a long and distinguished career at General Motors, serving as assistant chief engineer for the Corvette and as Director of the GM Performance Division. John retired from GM in October 2008

He also campaigns a variety of GM products in SCCA...

Jim Astrausky is the executive producer for Essex Television Group: producers of the Chasing Classic Cars show airing on the Discovery's HD Theater and specialty adventure and personality driven documentary programming on Discovery’s Military, Health and International, HDNet and PBS networks.

John Kraman is color commentator and announcer for the Mecum Auto Auctions Show featured on Discovery's HD Theater.

John Dubois is the owner and operator of Mint Restorations, a custom street rod garage. Dubois has worked in the automotive industry for 40 years, starting at the bottom and then working up to running two dealerships. He has built everything from streetcars, record holding drag race cars, NCRS Top Flight Corvettes (including judging them) to...

Tom is Marketing Manager for Mecum's Auto Auction, seen regularly on Discovery's HD Theater

Dana Mecum

Dana Mecum is President and founder of Mecum Auctions Inc. one of the most successful rare and high performance automobile auction houses in the world. Many of their auctions are televised on Discovery's HD Theater Channel.

On July 10, 2009, Robert A. Lutz was named General Motors vice chairman, marketing and communications. In this capacity, he is responsible for all creative elements of products and customer relationships teaming with global product development and partnering with design. Lutz rejoined GM on September 1, 2001, as vice chairman of product...

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Bill Warner is founder of The Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance, chairman of the Amelia Foundation, and also serves as president of his own business, H. C. Warner, Inc., an industrial filtration company. Additionally, he owns Race/Torations, a company that restores collectible cars.

He won the 2002 Meguiar's Award for Collector Car Hobby...

Ian Kelleher was appointed to the position of President and Chief Operating Officer, RM Auctions, Inc. in December 2008.

Prior to this, Ian was appointed Managing Director, RM Auctions, Inc. in North America in 2004.

Over the years Ian has managed the majority of RM’s estate and private collection auctions, including Carail, The...

Phil Skinner is "Collector Car Market Editor" for Kelley Blue Book’s "Official Guide For Early Model Cars" and a leading authority in collector car pricing.

Ed Welburn Jr.

Ed Welburn was named vice president of GM Design North America on October 1, 2003, becoming the sixth design leader in GM history. On March 1, 2005, Welburn was named to the newly created position of GM vice president, Global Design, and the first to lead all of the company’s global design centers.

As vice president of Global Design,...