Cars Yeah With Mark Greene

Michael Robinson is the CEO and Design Director at ED Design in Turin, Italy. He was born in Whittier, California and has lived in Italy since 1979. ED Design is a design and engineering company creating the automotive and transportation industry. Previously Michael was the Design Director at Bertone, Fiat, and Lancia. He’s worked as a designer with Ford and Volvo, Opel, Ghia, and he’s contributed to numerous other automotive marques. In addition to the automotive sector Michael designed the new high-speed train for Europe and numerous other non-automotive design projects. He won the coveted Grover Bell Innovations Award in 2014 for his full electric, twin, tilt rotor VTOL flying wing.

Michael Robinson is the CEO and Design Director at ED Design in Turin, Italy. He was born in Whittier, California and has lived in Italy since 1979. ED Design is a design and engineering company creating the automotive and transportation industry. Previously Michael was the Design Director at Bertone, Fiat, and Lancia. He’s worked as a designer with Ford and Volvo, Opel, Ghia, and he’s contributed to numerous other automotive marques. In addition to the automotive sector Michael designed the new high-speed train for Europe and numerous other non-automotive design projects. He won the coveted Grover Bell Innovations Award in 2014 for his full electric, twin, tilt rotor VTOL flying wing.

Kelly Telfer is an artist in who paints all kinds of subjects but his passion is with automobiles, motorcycles, and racing. He lives and paints in San Jose, California and his artwork can be found in galleries, magazines, private homes, and corporate collections around the world. He is currently featured in a one-man show at Canepa Motorsports Museum. You’ll also find his art on Guglielmo wine labels and he’s created fine art, design, and marketing work for international and national motorsports organizations.

Born in Venezuela and living in Miami, Florida, Henrique Cisneros is the Principal at MOMO Italy, the iconic automotive and motorsports accessories company. Above everything he’s an automotive enthusiast who’s mission is to rebuild the MOMO brand placing it back in the legendary position it once occupied. He races in the Porsche GT3 Cup race series and claimed the Championship title in 2010 and 2011. In 2013 he finished third in the competitive GTC class of the American Le Mans Series and in 2015 he finished second in the GTA class of the Pirelli World Challenge driving a Ferrari 458 Italia GT3 race car.

Marco Visconti is the principal at Marco Visconti Architects in Turin, Italy. There he has wrapped his passion for the automobile in to many of the projects he designs. Some of his achievements including the industrial complex at Fiat Melfi, computer centers for railways, showrooms for cars in Berlin, Paris, and London. He designed the halls mechanics, painting, and restaurant for Ferrari in Maranello and conference room of the automobile museum in Turin. His focus is on a sensitivity to global environmental conditions, sustainable standards and low impact materials and building quality.

Bob Colaizzi is an automotive artist whose career path was based on Yogi Berra’s quote, “When you get to the fork in the road, take it!” In 1967, after going down several paths, he started a PR firm with two other Chrysler guys where they focused on annual reports. That fork in the road lasted 45 years. Today, in his retirement, Bob’s back at doing what he loves, creating automotive art. His drawings and paintings of automobiles are wonderful and include cars from every marque and time.

Christopher Holewski is as passionate about cars as he is about design. After purchasing a 1975 BMW 2002, he had no money to repair or restore the car. This challenge would soon lead to the formation of Manual Designs, Christopher's company where he creates hand-made artwork of classic cars using a stencil & spray paint technique that he learned during his college years studying Graphic Design. Christopher's work has been featured in various publications including Top Gear magazine and Uncrate.com. Chris has done artwork for automotive companies including Jonathan Ward's ICON and Bavarian Autosport.

Chris Benny is the owner of Prova Motorsports in Seattle Washington. There he and his talented team work on special interest and European sports cars. Their goal is to improve his customer’s experience on the road and track. Chris has over 15 years of experience in road racing, chassis setup and alignment, racing, and instructing with ProFormance Racing School at Pacific Raceway. He races with ICSCC Conference in an Alfa Romeo and coaches other Alfa owners on how to drive better on the street and track.

Renee Crist is the Collections Manager at the LeMay - America’s Car Museum located in Tacoma, Washington. There she is responsible for over 300 historic automobiles that span over 100 years of automotive history. Renee is a member of the Advisory Board for the Pacific Northwest Concours d’Elegance and is a member of the Classic Car Club of America, the Cadillac LaSalle Club of America and numerous other local and regional automotive clubs. She is also a member of the National Association of Automotive Museums and Registrars Committee Western Region (RCWR), the Society of Automotive Historians, and the Historic Vehicle Association (HVA).

Merrill Powell was a fiberglass pioneer at Victress Manufacturing in the 1950s. The company was founded by Doc Boyce-Smith in1952 when the first Victress S1A sports car rolled on to the streets of Southern California. In 1953 Merrill joined the company and until Victress Manufacturing was sold in 1961 they accomplished more than any of their competition at that time. One of their cars became the world’s fastest sports car at Bonneville. Past Cars Yeah guest Geoff Hacker of Forgotten Fiberglass introduced me to Merrill and I’m honored to share his time designing and building the Victress with you. There will be a 1953 Victress S1A Roadster on the Mecum auction block this October in Chicago.

Peter Volny is the Founder of the Concours in the Hills that will celebrate it’s third year on Saturday, February 13, 2016 in Fountain Hills Arizona. In 2015 the event drew 444 cars and 10,000 spectators and raised well over $60,000 for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Scottsdale. Peter’s career included growing one of Canada’s most successful advertising agencies, Griffin Bacal Volny, who’s clients include many major players in the automotive field. He’s been an editorial advisor and regular columnist for several magazines and today along with running the Concours in the Hills event Peter plays with his collector cars and works on his tan, successfully, and his golf game, unsuccessfully!

Tom Long is the CEO of Acme Trading company, an agent of Amalgam, Fine Model Cars. Every Amalgam model is made entirely by hand from over 2,000 parts. The process of developing each model and creating the master patterns take at least 3,000 man-hours. Each part is extremely accurate to the real car and in total the time taken to machine, cast, hand fettle, paint, polish, and assemble each model is in excess of 350 hours of highly skilled work. Each model is custom built for it’s new owner to his or her exacting specifications.

Matteo Panini is the President of iXOOST in Modena Italy where he was born. He studied economics at the University and his secondary schooling was in Maranello at the Ferrari Institute. At IXOOST he designs and builds unique automotive exhaust systems that are audio docks and stereo speakers using real F1 exhausts as acoustic chambers. His works of art are customized for his customers and are far more than a simple audio dock. They connect the engine sounds of an F1 racecar with music and art. The parts come from the same suppliers that build for F1. Each piece is completely unique and customized for his customers, all hand made in Italy.

Steve Dorsey has been a professional auctioneer for over twenty years. He got his start in 1988 with Pacific Northwest-based Silver Auctions in the collector car auction business. As a licensed real estate broker, working with two of the largest real estate auctioneering firms in the business - Auction.com and the Kennedy-Wilson Group. At SR Dorsey Auctioneering he and his auctioneering crew are the premier auctioneering team on Portland's fundraising circuit and they have helped to raise tens of millions of dollars throughout the state of Oregon. His work takes him throughout the Pacific Northwest, California, and Las Vegas; as far as New York and even Canada.

Steward Codling has been working in the automotive and motorsports field for over 17 years as a journalist and broadcaster. He is the Executive Editor of Autosport andF1 Racing magazines. Some of his past roles were working at Motor Sport, Evo, Octane, and Redline magazines as well. He handled PR for the first year of the Lamborghini Super Trofeo race series and he drove the pace car at Spa-Francorchamps! His current project includes the book Lamborghini Supercars 50 Years where he teamed up with fellow Cars Yeah guest and photographer James Mann and Zak Miller at Motorbooks.

James Mann is a professional photographer but first he’s a dyed-in-the-wool car and motorcycle nut. He lives in Dorset, in the United Kingdom, and travels around the world photographing people, landscapes, and his favorite subjects, cars and motorcycles. His images have appeared in over 50 books, hundreds of magazines and his latest works is a marvelous book titled Lamborghini Supercars 50 Years. James has participated in classic saloon car racing and classic rallies and enjoys time in his shop with his Austin Healey 3000 and a 1965 Triumph T100SC motorcycle.

Keith Collins is a Los Angeles-based artist and designer who has been creating handmade tapestries for over five decades. His works include interior rugs for residences and businesses, custom car mats, and original wall hangings and paintings. His creations include a selection of wall tapestries consisting of more than 100 colors of mixed media. Through a labor intensive-process, and sewn with vintage sewing machines, Keith’s tapestries are incredible paintings created in fabric. His art hangs in private homes, garages, shops, and collections around the world. Prized for their uncompromising craftsmanship and photographic like quality, you have to see his work in person to believe what he creates.

Lyn St. James has raced cars for over 40 years. She was the 1992 Indy 500 Rookie of the Year, has victories at the 24 Hours of Daytona, 12 Hours of Sebring, Watkins Glen, Elkhart Lake and set closed course speed records of over 225 mph. She’s an author, a motivational speaker, and was named by Sports Illustrated for Women, One of the Top 100 Women Athletes of the Century. She founded the Women in the Winner’s Circle Foundation and her legacy is one of inspiration, encouragement, perseverance, and commitment to excellence. Lyn is most certainly a lady who has changed the world, not only for women but anyone who strives to succeed.

Charles Baer is the the Founder and President at CAVOQ where the mantra is Drive Everything. It’s a place where automotive enthusiasts have access to the most discerning driving experiences possible. His career history included 9 years at Honda Motors in their R&D accessory division and then he spent time at Paccar in their Kenworth design studio. He earned his masters degree at the Foster School of Business and is taking his years of experience and passion for automobiles in to the startup world where at CAVOQ he will provide memberships that offer short term leases to members who want to experience different marques so they can “Drive Everything”.

John Borchelt is the founder and president of MAcarbon Inc. MAcarbon specializes in the manufacturing of carbon fiber interior components for high-end and exotic automobiles. MAcarbon has the most extensive carbon product line for Ferrari, Porsche, McLaren, and Lamborghini. They are headquartered in the San Francisco Bay area with their production workshops in Canada and Belgium. Their website is an example of cutting edge design with configurators that allow customers to visualize their vehicle designs while choosing how to customize their special vehicles.