Cars Yeah With Mark Greene

Tom Nault’s passion for entrepreneurship, management, and turnarounds began when he was in college. Along with his fascination for companies that did great things, Tom also had a fascination with failures, how they happened and more importantly, and how they could be fixed.  Throughout his career he has created many businesses, sold them, some went on to greatness, some did not. He helped many distressed companies and learned a lot. He co-founded Exotics at Redmond Town Center that has become the largest weekly gathering of exotics and rare cars and a huge Pacific Northwest success. He joined the Board of  America’s Automotive Trust that has oversite for LeMay America’s Car Museum. When COVID struck Tom wrote a book titled How To Not F*ck Up Your Own Company: Lessons I Learned by Screwing Up.

Raoul ‘Sonny’ Balcaen grew up in Los Angeles at a time when it became the epicenter of American motor racing, nurturing a vast talent pool of people whose influence has echoed through to today. Sonny’s life is outlined in his autobiography, published by Evro, and includes co-authors Jill Amadio and past Cars Yeah guest Pete Lyons. This engaging memoir from one of American racing's unsung heroes is the very personal history of a momentous time and place in which we meet a who’s who of West Coast road-racing heroes. 

Sharon Spurlin is the owner of Classic Ads, a full-service sales and advertising agency. She is the publisher of AutoMobilia Resource magazine, a publication launched in 2018 that focuses on the collector world of automotive memorabilia. 

Brad Phillips is the Senior VP of Business Development at RM Sotheby’s, the world’s largest collector car auction house by total sales. They conduct auctions around the world and this month they will return for their annual Arizona Auction takes place January 26th at the Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix where they realized over $43 million is sales in2022. 

Chuck Stanford is the Co-Founder and Selection Committee Chair of the Arizona Concours taking place on Sunday, January 22. This event starts off the New Year concours circuit and Arizona Auctions week. This concours recently announced its rebirth in Scottsdale for January 2023.  Chuck has also judged at the Hilton Head Concours d’Elegance and at the Cobble Beach Concours d’Elegance. 

Sperry Hutchinson is the Manager of Development at The Piston Foundation. The foundation builds scholarship and apprenticeship programs that serve the car community. Sperry has lived most of his life in Arizona, where he was born and raised. He has gone on to create several car rallies, serving as Chairman of the Copperstate 1000 and the world’s first vintage, off-road luxury rally, the Copperstate Overland. He also hosts AutoMoto podcast to be launched in the New Year.

Ed Winkler is the Co-Founder of the Arizona Concours taking place on Sunday, January 22. This event starts off the New Year concours circuit and Arizona Auctions week.   

Gord Duff is Global Head of Auctions for RM Sotheby’s, the world’s premier automotive auction house. He and his team conduct auctions around the world and this month they will return for their annual Arizona Auction takes place January 26th at the Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix. 

Tony Whatley is an automotive enthusiast, a fanatic actually, an engineer, entrepreneur, mentor, and founder of 356 Driven Society and podcast. He’s a 20+ year serial entrepreneur, business coach, best-selling author and speaker. Today as we welcome in the New Year, I’ve asked Tony to share his thoughts on How To Win in the New Year, and actually, any time in your life, so that you have your best year yet in your wealth, health, mindset, and relationships. Let’s get to it!

Today's show is a Memoriam to 10 past Cars Yeah guests who we've lost this year. It's a tribute to their lives and all the things they gave to the automotive world. And it is a reminder that each day is a precious gift. I'm wishing you all a restful and healthy holiday season. I hope you get to spend time with family and friends.

Tony Dow was a film producer, director, television actor, sculptor and a lifelong automotive enthusiast. You’ll remember him for his role in the television sitcom Leave It To Beaver that ran on primetime from 1957 to 1963. Tony of course played Wally Cleaver, the eldest son of June and Ward and the wise older brother of Theodore Beaver Cleaver.  We lost Tony in July of 2022.

Vic Elford was one of the fastest drivers of the sixties and seventies and is a racing icon in Porsche’s history. He was arguably the most versatile all around driver of all time and he’s raced and won pretty much every motoring event in Europe and the U.S. He drove for Steve McQueen in the movie Le Mans and Vic’s authored books, narrated Michel Keyser’s film The Speed Merchants.. We lost Vic in March of 2022.

Fred Simeone was the founder and Executive Director of the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The 80,000 square foot building houses an incredible collection of over 65 racing sports cars that encompass the words of John Stuart Mill, “Competition is indispensable to progress.” You will enjoy marques including Alfa Romeo, Porsche, Ferrari, Aston Martin, and Delahaye to name just a few. Fred was a retired neurosurgeon who donated the cars to a charitable foundation that survives on events and philanthropy and continues today. We lost Fred in June of 2022.

This is a special in memoriam show with Russel Fleury who was one of the most highly respected consultants in corporate education. He was the founder and CEO of Road-Scholars International, a performance improvement firm specializing in coaching automotive dealerships in management, customer retention and human resources.  His clients included:  Hyundai, Toyota, BMW, Mini, Ford, General Motors, Porsche, Mitsubishi, Ferrari, Maserati, Freightliner, Daimler, Harley-Davidson, Correct Craft, The Kinetic Group and more. He was one of the busiest guys I knew.  Enjoy this very personal and passionate interview. We lost Russell in January of 2022 to Covid

Hello Inspiring Automotive Enthusiasts and welcome to Cars Yeah.  Today something different. Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Las Posadas, the Winter Solstice, Kwanzaa, or Festivus, this is the season for love, peace, joy, and giving of our time and gifts. So grab a cup of coco, or eggnog, sit back, and enjoy this special Christmas eve share…

Mark Roberts is the Chief Creative Officer at Charge Cars, a company founded in 2016 in London. Their experienced team design and build vintage '67 Mustangs in a unique, bespoke, and electrically powered way. Three years ago, Mark brought his automotive passion and experience to the Charge Cars team as Chief Creative Officer, responsible for building the Brand, the Design team and creating a unique Customer Journey.

Nicholas Hutchison is the Founder of BookThinkers, a company dedicated to spreading the power of personal development books. Nicholas is focused on developing insightful content and interviewing the world’s top non-fiction authors for his podcast, BookThinkers: Life-Changing Books. As a digital nomad, Nicholas runs his business from a different country every month and gives all, of the credit for this lifestyle to some of the early books he has read and been inspired by. 

Taylor Keller is the Founder and CEO of Keller Motors, a venture that he describes as an analogue revolution. It’s a supercar company he’s just started and his first car, called the Seraph. 

Jaxon Bell is 19 years old with a thirst to go racing. Having a passion for racing since he was a toddler, he started his racing career in the Skip Barber Racing Series. In the first part of this past December, he ran his first race in a Formula 4 car at the Circuit of the Americas where he earned a podium finish in each of his two races. His father is past Indy racer Townsend Bell, a past Cars Yeah guest.

Eliot Wertheimer is the Founder and CEO at Lavoie, a new premium mobility brand born from McLaren Applied on a mission to redefine personal transport through luxury automotive and motorsport-inspired design, engineering, and electrification.