Cars Yeah With Mark Greene

Ron Huegli is the Curator at World of Speed Museum in Wilsonville, Oregon. At World of Speed Museum, he and his team are dedicated to education and entertainment through the celebration and preservation of motorsports. As curator at World of Speed, Ron is responsible for the entirety of World of Speed’s motorsports collection. He acquires, cares for, develops, displays, and interprets the museum’s exhibits. He also works with a talented team on archiving, marketing, fundraising, volunteering, and educational programs. He’s raced nitro dragsters and Top Fuel racing and he drives the Tiki Warrior funny car.

Nathan Riddle is the owner and host of the off-road adventure show, KrawlZone, which aims to take the adrenaline of extreme rock crawling and pump it into the vein of the off-road community. Nathan also has an acting background, works as a video game animator, is a professor at the University of Utah and is currently developing several additional off road shows as well as his first feature film. At a young age he learned to be a grease monkey and gained a love for classic cars from his father.

Mike deJonge is the owner of Restoration Design, in Ontario Canada. The company designs and manufactures high-quality replacement sheet metal for vintage Porsche automobiles. There he and his team make replacement parts for Porsches including the 911, the 356, and the 914 models. They recreate hundreds of original parts for use when restoring older Porsche cars that range from body panels to gas tanks, door lock posts, and full hoods. In addition to new sheet metal parts they also sell original panels and mechanical parts for older Porsches with hundreds of parts in their growing inventory.

Simone Schedoni is the President of Cuoio Schedoni Leather in Modena, Italy. He is the fourth generation of a family with a legacy as rich as the fine leather products they have produced for over 130 years. The Schedoni leather company began in 1880 when Celso Schedoni opened a small workshop in Formigine, Italy to make fine leather footwear. Fast forward to the mid 70s when the company was making fine luggage for Ferrari owners that lead to a relationship with Ferrari F1and a relationship that’s continued over 35 years. Today their leather goods can be found in marques including: Ferrari, Bentley, Lamborghini, Rolls-Royce, Pagini, Audi, Alfa Romeo, Maserati and more. 

Alan Taylor is the owner of Alan Taylor Company located in Escondido, California. They are a full serviced automotive restoration business specializing in European and American models from the prewar era through the 1960s. Alan and his team are known for their work on Alfas, Aston Martins, Avions Voisin, Bugatti, Delage, Delahaye, and many other great marques. Their reputation for creating award winning automotive masterpieces with a focus on details and perfection is known worldwide. You’ve seen his work on concours lawns from Pebble Beach to Amelia Island. With over 50 years in the business, Alan has seen most every marque ever made roll through his shop. His motto: The impossible we do immediately. Miracles take a little longer.

David Fetherston is the president of Fetherston Publishing in Sebastopol, California. He has evolved from journalist and photographer, to automotive history specialist to prolific author and publisher. David has over 40 book titles to his credit including his 1999 Automotive Book of the Year for American Woodys. His creations include, Heroes of Hot Rodding, Chrysler Concept Cars 1940-1970, Bonneville - A Century of Speed, and Fetherston's Treasure Box of Classic Woodys. Whether it's on paper, web-based or hands-on with a race team, David has contributed to automotive history and culture in a diligent effort to keep the facts straight.

Jeremy Grenier lives in Charles Town, West Virginia and spends a lot of his time in his shop at Summit Point Raceway. He started racing in 1998 at the age of 23. He’s worked with an amateur Trans Am team and then a Grand Am AFT team. He’s been at Ski Motorsports since 2003 where he drives, builds, engineers, and redesigns all kinds of race cars from Formula Vee, Formula Ford, Formula Mazda, and a variety of customer cars. He’s received numerous racing awards including the 2014 Mark Donahue award from the Road Racers Drivers Club.

Alexander Bermudez is a photographer with a passion for automobiles. He studied graphic design in England and photography at the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California. He’s been on assignments with Werks II Motorsports documenting their IMSA GT3 Challenge and ALMS campaigns and he’s spent lots of time shooting at many of the great road courses in America. He’s an avid racer in Porsche Owners Club events and won the coveted Rookie of the Year Award in their Cup series driving a Porsche Boxster. You’ll find him documented at Petrolicious in his Porsche 964 based hot rod 911 known at The Growler, where he also contributes to their road trip series.

Yahn Janou is a fine artist who lives in Paris, France. He graduated in 1992 from Art Center College of Design with a degree in automobile design. Since 1993 he paints exclusively racing cars and racing scenes aiming to capture the excitement of the pits, qualifying and to convey the exuberance of teams and the intensity of the connection between man and machine. His paintings portray power, speed, technology, elegance, and the unique. He exhibits throughout Europe and the United states and has created posters for racing venues including The 24 Hours of Le mans as well as works for major automobile manufacturers.

Toto Lassally is the CEO of Speedcom Communications, established in 1996, with offices in Florida and Spain. They are one of the worlds most recognized names in communications equipment for the motorsports industry. They provide racers and teams with state of the art products and accessories. In 2005 Speedcom became the official communications equipment supplier to Grand Am and today they also supply the Creventic International 24 Hours series. Toto is an active racer and holds many victories including the 24 Hours of Dubai and Barcelona and multiple podium finishes around the world. His latest venture with veteran racer Juan Carlos Leroux, is Roux Helmets with their innovative proprietary designs for comfort and safety.

David Snyder is a fine artist who started drawing cars, airplanes, and trains at the age of six. He graduated from the Central Academy of Commercial Art in Cincinnati, Ohio and had a successful career in advertising as a designer, art director, and illustrator. His drawings and paintings portray memories of growing up with cars from the 50s through the American muscle car era. He’s known for his fine details of the periods he paints down to the signage, oil cans, and garage bays. He has self-published over 120 limited edition prints and his work has earned him numerous awards and hangs in prestigious private and corporate collections.

Michael Stahlschmidt is the founder and current lead partner at Sideline Sports Photography. His work as a sports photographer has him traveling over 300 days per year, through over 15 countries and 35 plus states. Michael has covered racing series including Formula One, DTM, IMSA, WEC and Pirelli World Challenge. Sideline Sports Photography’s semi truck based mobile production and display vehicles debuted in 2001 and created the niche of onsite production, display and sales of imagery. He shoots for major corporations including Audi, Mazda, Momo, Spyder, Sonic Tools, and others, in addition to supplying Automobile, Motor Trend and Road & Track magazines.   Michael has worked as an official White House Press photographer and he is also the Official Photographer for the US Nationals and Olympic Soccer Teams Players Association, having photographed the last nine World Cups and past five Olympic games. In 2016, Michael will cover the entire IMSA calendar, as well as the 2016 Rio Olympic games.

Tim Howe is the inventor and owner of Tire Wedgee. It’s an innovative solution to a nagging challenge for anyone who has ever washed their vehicle. Form follows function in the simplicity of his design of a product that stops your water hose from getting stuck under a tire while you are cleaning your vehicle. Tim designed this new product and is bringing it to market to help car lovers like you and me by making the washing and detailing experience much more fun.

Winston Goodfellow is an award-winning automotive writer and photographer. Over the past twenty years his words and photos have been seen in more than 60 publications on several continents, and he has authored 14 books and private commission monographs. His last book, the critically acclaimed Ferrari Hypercars, was voted 2014's "Book of the Year" at the 24th annual International Automotive Media Competition. Winston has been a Chief Class Judge or Class Judge at many of the world's top concours including Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance and Concorso d'Eleganza at Villa d'Este in Italy. He has also advised numerous automotive collectors on the purchase or selling of their cars, and provided guidance on their collections.

Egidio Reali is the Founder of MR Collection Models, located in Gerenzano, Italy near Lake Como. He started the company in 1988 at the age of 22. They produce exquisite hand built model cars in 1:43 and 1:18 scales. Their models are prized by collectors around the world and they have participated in the launch of new models by Lamborghini and Ferrari. Their brand has become a cult name among model car fans and they hold license agreement with the most prestigious automotive manufacturer around the world. His models are made facing the same ciritcal issues that major automotive groups face, just at a different scale.

Baer Connard is the owner of ACE Performance a Massachusetts based Ariel Atom dealer and European car performance and service facility. Advanced Concepts Engineering, known as ACE Performance began as a vision to push the envelope in design and maintenance of unique, performance-oriented cars. They help owners of race cars, tuner cars, and daily drivers perform better, go faster, and be safer. In 2016 ACE Performance will join forces with Thompson Motor Speedway to run a North East Spec Race Atom series combining his passion and business selling and servicing the unique Ariel Atom car on the race track.

Marty Fiolka is the President of The Rennsport Group PR and Marketing agency that he founded in 1995. His clients include Nissan, Infinite, Exxon, and Mitsubishi, to name just a few. He is the authoritative off-road racing historian, industry spokesperson, and author. He was inducted in to the Off-Road Motorsports Hall of Fame in 2014. Marty’s a seasoned off-road racer and has competed in many desert and short-course events, including 15 Baja 1000s. Marty just completed a new documentary film titled Baja Social Club and he just published a 532 page history book on McMillin Racing entitled Big Blue M the McMillin Racing Story.

Rhonda Cahill works with her husband Scott at Expedition Overland, an adventure travel show that is sponsored by Toyota and General Tire. She competes and navigates with teammate Rachelle Croft in the Rallye Aiche des Gazelles in Morocco. Her racing team, Xelles Racing, competes in the longest, most difficult, all female off-road rally in the world. She races to bring awareness to sexual abuse with a mission to inspire women around the world with one simple message:  "You Are Loved." 

Rachelle Croft, above at left, works with her husband Clay at Expedition Overland where she competes and drives in the Rallye Aïche des Gazelles in Morocco. Her racing team, Xelles Racing, competes in the longest, most difficult, all female off-road rally in the world. She and her teammate, Rhonda Cahill, partnered with Voice Today in 2014 to bring awareness and a voice to sexual abuse. In 2015, they again took to their mission to inspire women around the world with one simple message: You are loved.”

Leslie Keno is the Co-CEO of the Keno Brothers Fine Automobile Auctions. Rolling Sculpture, The New York City Auction is their inaugural event that takes place on November 19 at Skylight Clarkson Square in New York City. Leslie and his brother Leigh are internationally recognized experts in their field. You’ll recognize them from their years on the TV show Antiques Road Show. These identical twins are bringing their expertise from decades of work in the arts and antiques world to the collector automobile world. Leslie spent over 30 years at Sotheby’s and has judged at events including Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance plus he speaks at classic car symposiums across the country advising collectors and institutions. Leslie has restored, raced, and collected historic cars throughout his life and served on numerous boards and committees.