Cars Yeah With Mark Greene

Rita Case is the President, CEO and Owner of The Rick Case Automotive Group, the nation’s largest retail auto group owned and operated by a woman. Rita is a new member of the prestigious 2022 Horatio Alger Award and she is the only woman in the automotive retail business in their 75-year history to become an honoree.

Stacy Puckett Taylor is the Director of Car Culture at ShiftGate, a modern approach to classic car online auctions that launched on July 21, 2021. ShiftGate was built for every car collector, enthusiast, and dreamer. 

Sabré Cook is a drive in the W Series, the international single-seater motor racing championship for female drivers. Their first U.S. appearance is in conjunction with the upcoming Formula 1 race at COTA (Circuit of the Americas) for a double header weekend.

Ayla Agren is a drive in the W Series, the international single-seater motor racing championship for female drivers. Their first U.S. appearance is in conjunction with the upcoming Formula 1 race at COTA (Circuit of the Americas) for a double header weekend.

Samantha Zimmerman is a fine artist who specializes in realism and a  majority of her art is focused on automotive and motorsports subjects. Whether it be two wheels or four wheels, she loves to capture the true essence of speed and you are guaranteed to feel the heat and hear the turbo flutter when viewing her pieces!

Jerry Cox is a Washington-DC based lawyer and crisis communications advisor with 40 years of experience with airbags in automobiles. Jerry wrote a book titled, Killer Airbags: The Deadly Secret Automakers Don’t Want You to Know, how that turned into the biggest recall of any consumer product in history. Today he returns for some potentially life-saving updates on the airbag disaster.

Rob Keil is an advertising art director, filmmaker and author who share his latest is a book titled Art Fitzpatrick and Van Kaufman, the same men who illustrated hundreds of those Pontiac ads that inspired him as a kid to have a career in advertising.

Thomas Hodges days on the racetrack resulted in him founding Ultimate Track Day. He and his team host automotive events at some of the finest racetracks including, Laguna Seca, The Thermal Club, and many others.

Douglas Gorney is an artist living in San Francisco. He works primarily in watercolor and ink, capturing San Francisco architecture, street scenes, and particularly its (re)emerging car culture.

Ken Gross is this year’s Concours Director at the Chattanooga Motorcar Festival. He is an award-winning automotive journalist and has contributed to almost every car magazine you’ve ever enjoyed reading.

Dick York is an Event Advisor for the Chattanooga Motorcar Festival. He's an ex-fighter pilot and races Ferraris and historic race cars. The need for speed may have been derived from flying Navy F4 jet fighters off of carriers in the Viet Nam war.

Kevin Caulfield is in charge of business development at the Ferrari restoration experts Motion Products. His role with the Second Annual Chattanooga Motorcar Festival has been to curate 14 special Ferraris that will grace the event and Kevin will be a docent for the VIP tours of these special Ferraris. 

Corky Coker is the Grand Marshal for the Second Annual Chattanooga Motorcar Festival, a three-day event that includes a Rallye, Grand Prix, and Concours d’Elegance. Corky assumed the leadership role in the Coker Family’s BF Goodrich tire dealership in 1974 and for the next 45 years he and his team helped define the collector-car hobby.

Brian Redman is The Grand Ambassador of the Chattanooga Motorcar Festival, a three-day event that includes a Rallye, Grand Prix, and Concours d’Elegance. Brian participated in 358 races in his professional career.

Ben Ebel is the User Experience Designer at Michelin’s Customer Experience Lab. His team leads the development of new technology and business strategies that makes Michelin’s services, solutions, and products more irresistible to their customers. 

Merry Harlacher chairs the board of the Hilton Head Island Concours d’Elegance and Motoring Festival. This is a multi-day event culminating in the Sunday Concours.

Robert Jepson was the 2019 Hilton Head Concours d’Elegance winner and will be returning this year with his spectacular 1920  Model H Stutz Bearcat. Robert shares many stories about his spectacular collection.

Mark Piekarski is a ‘car guy’ who grew up in the auto industry and built a lifetime career around automobiles. He is actively involved in promoting the ‘car enthusiast hobby’ on Hilton Head as President of the Lowcountry Oyster Motor Driving Society, which is the founding club of Hilton Head Concours de Elegance. 

Paul Ianuario is the Chief Judge at the Hilton Head Concours d’Elegance and Motoring Festival. Paul is a retired engineer who spent more than 40 years in the automotive supplier industry with 20 years spent with Michelin Tire Corporation.

Randy Ema is a restoration expert and one of the world’s leading experts on the Duesenberg marque. He will be a guest speaker at this year’s Ironstone Concours d’Elegance talking about these magnificent classic cars.