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Ruba Jurdi is the Founder and CEO of the Rally Royale otherwise known as your Passport to Paradise. She and her team provide premium automotive rally event management services. Whether you are an individual hoping to join a planned event or a club seeking to take your members on an unforgettable journey, or a business providing customers or associates with a trip of their lifetime, Rally Royale can make it happen. They plan rallies, lodging, receptions, galas, video, and photography in Europe and far away places including Oman, New Zealand, or anywhere on the planet.

Mike Pennington is the Global Director of Training and Consumer Relations for Meguiar’s, the world’ leading surface care company. He oversees the company’s technical training programs and Customer Care Center. He also works closely with their R&D department to help study and develop new car care products. He heads training for outside sales staff and conducts a wide variety of hands on classes to teach and train users on the entire Meguiar’s surface care brand. Today he is here to share some of the new products that are available from Meguiar’s.

Harley Cluxton is the Founder of Hammer Price, an online, real-time automotive auction site where you can be in many places all at the same time. Following the collector car market has never been easier. You can pick favorites, set alerts, use their pricing tools, get advice, and follow any number of auctions while they happen right on your mobile device, laptop, computer, or tablet. And when your favorite car crossed the auction block and is ready to sell, you’ll know it and never miss a chance to bid on your dream car. Those fluent in Ferrari history and endurance racing legends will recognize his father, Harley E. Cluxton III and the company Grand Touring Cars.

E.C. Mueller is the Manager at the Portland International Raceway. The track hosted its first race in 1961 and by 1965 it was hosting regular drag races, motorcycle races, and road coarse racing. Over the years PIR has hosted Can Am races and numerous other venues including historic races, club events, and drag racing. The 1.967 mile, 12-turn course is challenging and fun and includes a long straightaway when the chicane is blocked. Before managing the track E.C. spent 10 years at Nissan Motor Company in Los Angeles and after college he worked with a professional sports car road racing team.

Mike Brewer is a well-known presenter of television motoring programs, not to mention a journalist, producer, campaigner, motoring enthusiast, and family man. Not bad for a car dealer from South London! You’ll recognize him from the Discovery Channel TV show Wheeler Dealer where he and his buddy Edd China find, buy, restore, and sell all kinds of fun old cars. Mike’s been a presenter on numerous other shows and motorsports events. He owns Mike Brewer Motors, a dealership in Sheffield. He’s earned many awards including the Royal Television Society’s Best InVision Personality, and Broadcast Journalist of the Year two-years running.

Paul Jones is the Managing Director at the Palm Beach Driving Club located at the Palm Beach International Raceway in Jupiter, Florida. The 2-mile road course has hosted numerous events over the years from professional racing to vintage events. Paul joined the Palm Beach Driving Club in December 2016 and his past ventures include sales and marketing and a recent start up Fittipaldi Exotic Driving in Texas with Christian Fittipaldi. Paul worked a Richard Petty Driving Experience and Exotic Driving Experience at the Walt Disney World Resort. The Palm Beach Driving Club is a member’s only club that offers weekly, year-round track programs for enthusiasts.

Dean Wilson is the Vice President of marketing at Intercity Lines, in Warren , Massachuchetts, a family owned transport company that has been caring for and moving collector cars for over 35 years. You’ll see their trucks around the country on roadways and at prestigious concours and automotive events. Collectors and restoration experts including Wayne Carini, Jay Leno, Don Williams and many others trust Intercity Lines with their automobiles. Dean has been around the family business his entire life. Intercity was the first major carrier to adopt hydraulic lift gates and continues to set the standard for safe, reliable automobile transportation to this day.

Diego Rosenberg has been an automotive enthusiast his entire life and it started with his father’s 1967 Cougar. While he loves all cars he is particularly fond of muscle cars having lived close to Carlisle and the Cecil County and Englishtown racetracks. Diego is a first time author and he teamed up with publisher Car Tech Auto Books and Manuals and wrote Selling The American Muscle Car, a book about the marketing of Detroit iron in the 60s and 70s. Diego is the voice of the Pure Stock Muscle Car Drag Race in Michigan and a veteran of Hot Rod magazine.

Arman Suciyan is a jewelry designer and maker who lives in Istanbul, Turkey. He studied at the Kent Institute of Art in the U.K. and studied under the famous designer Stephen Webster. Since 2011 he has crafted his own designs and created a unique line of men’s belt buckles, rings, cuff links and more inspired by classic cars. His passion and inspiration comes from his childhood passion for 50s and 60s American cars including Chevrolet, Ford, Plymouth, Chryslers, Cadillac, and Buick. By taking design cues from these iconic brands Arman has created artistic yet useful tributes to automobiles that any enthusiast will immediately recognize.

Andy Reid is a Certified sports car fanatic who travels the world to see what’s crossing the auction blocks. He’s written for Grassroots Motorsports, Racer, Vintage Motorsports, RM Sotheby’s, Victory Lane, Jaguar World, the Hagerty insurance website, and was the auction columns at Classic Motorsports magazine for 12 years. He’s worked as a marketing director for several auction companies and Andy is currently the East Cost Editor and Auction Analyst at Classiccars.com which is the Zillow for the classic car auction industry. He is also a licensed independent collector car insurance specialist at Haydenwood Insurance. He is a respected concours judge and has his own collection of classic cars, motorcycles, and watches.

Joey Todd is the Director of Sales and Marketing at Texas World Speedway where he is also a driving instructor for their HPDE, Teen Driving School, and Ride and Drive experience programs. In 2014 he launched World Racing League to fill the gap in the endurance racing market between the Crapcan series and pro endurance racing including WEC. He spent time helping to start and grow the Chumpcar series that caters to entry-level and low budget racers. Joey takes racing back to what it should be – friendly and fun, low stress, a bit challenging, and affordable yet professionally run and safe.

Nelson Calle is the CEO at Classic Motors and The FJ Company where they specialize in restoring and selling the iconic Toyota FJ Land Cruisers. They dedicate themselves to performing full, frame-off restorations of the classic Japanese Toyota FJ20, FJ40, and FJ60 series land Cruisers creating moferd versions for today’s enthusiasts. Their vehicles are brought back to original condition or customized to whatever you want. Nelson is a life-long automotive enthusiast who raced for 15 years in karts and open wheel race cars and still participates in endurance and exhibition races. He personally conducts a 100-mile inspection on each and every restoration that leaves his facility.

Dave Kindig is the owner and designer at Kindig-it Design in Salt Lake City, Utah. Since 1999 Dave and his wife Charity have built Kindig-it in to a one-stop, complete custom shop where automobiles and transformed in to spectacular works of rolling art. With his engineering degree in Hot Wheels and Legos, Dave and design go hand in hand. He and his talented team turn out some of the most Bitchin’ Rides on the planet and he’s received . You can watch them in action on Velocity’s Bitchin’Rides TV show where they build ground up restorations making their customer’s dreams come true.

Chris Harrell is an avid classic car enthusiast and the visionary for RetroGrade Classics. Prior to founding RetroGrade Classics Chris had over two decades of business leadership and experience creating and growing consumer brands. He spent 12 years at design-centric tech/lifestyle brand Incase. At RetroGrade he works with automotive photographer and past Cars Yeah guest Michael Alan Ross and Jason R. Zahler. Chris is also the COO at 000 Magazine, a new publication with a focus on the Porsche marque and owns Eleven 9 Workshop, a consulting firm. Chris owns several Porsches and you’ll find him carving the canyons around Los Angeles or at club events at the track.

Jason Patison has been part of the Luca Oil family since he was a freshman in high school. He worked for the company on his summer breaks and has had numerous roles in the business over the years. In 2011 Lucas Oil acquired MAVTV shortly after Jason transitioned to the network and it’s proven to be a perfect fit. Hason is the Programming Director and enjoys the challenge of rebranding the network to help make it THE motorsports destination by combining his years behind the wheel of various race cars placing him in a unique position to relate to the MAVTV’s target audience.

Mitch Williams is the President and CEO at APR in Opelika, Alabama. APR is an automotive engineering firm founded in 1997 with a corporate philosophy of innovation, integrity, and excellence. Their mission is to provide the highest quality and most highly engineered aftermarket performance products available for Porsche, Audi, and Volkswagen vehicles. Mitch has worked in the automotive industry for decades and has lead companies including Hella where he was the youngest president in their history, Cibie and Marchal Lighting, and RPUI, and he’s a former SEMA Chairman of the board.

Julian White has been an automotive enthusiast since he was a little boy, carrying around his briefcases of Hot Wheels, and then graduating to building model cars. After a career in the movie industry, he founded the marketing company Web Video Vision in 1998. Julian’s profession as a Video Producer / Director and passion as a car enthusiast has been combined in to a lucrative career that allows him to travel the world working on Automotive projects. He currently is the Producer/Director of a web series titled “Talking About Cars with Randy Kerdoon” You can enjoy his show on Facebook and Youtube, Twitter and Instagram.

Matt Torres is the founder of Southwestern Musclecar Nationals in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It’s a show solely dedicated to original and restored muscle cars. He then developed the Supernationals show and for the last 26 years that show has been one of the largest indoor auto events in the southwest. Along with his business partner Reggie Tibbetts and his wife Margret, the Supernationals continues to delight visitors from around the country. Over the years Carroll Shelby, Don Garlits, Cindy Williams and Henry Winkler have been just a few of the featured guests at Supernationals. They raise money for their local Ronald McDonald House by giving part of the proceeds to this worthy charity.

Kyle Lauman owns and operates Night Shift Kustoms in St. George, Utah. For over ten years he’s designed and built custom hot rods for clients and himself. For two seasons you saw him on Discovery channel’s Vegas Rat Rods where he built some very cool rides. Kyle was raised in the small town of Parachute, Colorado where his love for fuel and spark was fostered by his father’s passion for motorcycles. Kyle’s love for 60s style Kustoms continues to drive his passion to build very cool custom cars.

Richard Klein is the President and CEO at Advanced Battery Systems in Culver City, California. ABS is a leader in the automotive, high performance and industrial markets. With over 30 years of experience providing UPS systems, generators, industrial power backup systems, batteries, and accessories Richard and his talented team offer a wealth of experience. They are Southern California’s largest battery supplier and distributor and their line of products is extensive. Their services include design and installation, maintenance, and recycling. Richard serves on several industry boards and helps mentor small business owners.