Cars Yeah With Mark Greene

Matt Stone is a freelance journalist, author, broadcaster and former Editor at Motor Trend Classic magazine. He’s been a professional automotive journalist and photographer since 1990. He’s a Chief Class Judge at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, a member of the LeMay America’s Car Museum Steering Committee and past-President of the Motor Press Guild trade association. He’s written several books including: Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman, McQueen’s Machines, My First Car, and History’s Greatest Automotive Mysteries, Myths, and Rumors Revealed.

Holly Martin of Metal and Speed, is a photographer who specializes in innovative automotive and mechanical photography. She also drives racecars. Her passion for automobiles, metalwork and the mechanical arts is captured in her photography and she is an artist with a background in painting and mixed media. She loves classic cars, hot rods, customs, motorcycles and her portfolio has something for every car and racing enthusiast. Her work has been featured world-wide in numerous publications including the Robb Report, Hot Rod magazine and others. She is the head photographer for Danny Thomson and his Challenger II and she often shoots at Bonneville and El Mirage Dry Lake.

Steve Moal of Moal Coachbuilders in Oakland, California, comes from a long line of skilled metal workers going back to his grandfather William who emigrated here to the United States from France. Steve’s shop carries on a tradition carried forward by his father George and today Steve and his wife and sons design, engineer, fabricate, and assemble custom coachcraft vehicles for the most discerning automotive enthusiasts. His skilled team of artisans create, and build distinct and spirited high-performance motorcars that are recognized around the world as works of art.

Scott Riekstins is the owner and operator of Green Auto Detail in Kirkland, Washington. He’s been detailing and caring for automobiles since 1989 out of his mobile detailing van. In 2009 Scott made a commitment to going green and today he focuses on using eco-friendly cleaning products and processes while cleaning vehicles. This reduces the impact on the environment and his customers, not to mention Scott himself. Scott’s detailed all kinds of vehicles including some famous cars from the movies including James Bond’s Aston Martin DB5 and the iconic Chuck Barris Batmobile.

Vic Elford was one of the fastest drivers of the sixties and seventies and is a racing icon in Porsche’s history. He is 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. The Monte Carlo Rally, the Daytona 24 Hours, Targa Florio, the Nurburgring 1000 Kilometers, Sebring and the European Rally Championship. Then he moved to Formula 1, Can Am, Trans Am, off road racing in Africa and even Nascar. In addition to Porsche Vic’s raced for almost every marque and set speed records and lap records around the globe. He drove for Steve McQueen in the movie Le Mans and Vic’s authored books, narrated Michel Keyser’s film The Speed Merchants and still participates in many motoring and vintage racing events.

Thomas Bryant spent 36 years working at Bond-Parkhurst/CBS/Hachette as an editor in various positions. He started as a junior editorial assistant on the magazine Pickup, Van & 4WD that was getting started in 1972. Thomas later moved to Road & Track as an Associate Editor, and then in 1986 he became the Editor of Road & Track Specials—magazines that focused on exotic cars from around the world. Two years later he was promoted to Editor-in-Chief of Road & Track magazine where he had always longed to be. Thomas remained in that position for 20 years, until his retirement in the summer of 2008.

Scott Jacobs is an artist whose passion for Harley Davidson motorcycles is reflected in his paintings. Whether it’s a Harley-Davidson motorcycle, a classic car, a fine bottle of wine or a delicate flower, Scott’s attention to detail supersedes all expectation. Every detail is perfection, right down to the reflections within reflections. Scott was the first artist to be officially licensed by Harley Davidson. His work has been featured in VQ Magazine, American Iron, Art Business News, Easy Rider Magazine, Airbrush Action Magazine as well as a host of other publications. His work is commissioned and collected by celebrities, he’s painted numerous portraits, and his work appears in galleries and collections around the world.

Shinoo Mapleton grew up in Detroit and admits his first memory is looking out at cars from his preschool window.  He started Sector111 in 2003 and operates in Temecula California. It is a company focused on lightweight sports cars including Lotus, Ariel Atom, Briggs Automotive Company and Alfa Romeo.  He is a lifelong auto fanatic and earned a mechanical engineering degree at GMI-Engineering Management Institute (now Kettering University). He started in the industry in 1985 working at Pontiac Fiero Assembly and then he move onto 3M Automotive.  and continues to chase his automotive dreams.

Chris Powell is the owner of Chris’s German Auto Service in Bellevue Washington. He’s run his shop for over 31 years caring for Porsche automobiles. Chris spent some of his early years in racing with Bruce Leven and Bayside Racing and he got his hands on some very serious Porsche race cars including: the RSR, 934, 935, 924, GTR, Lola Porsche, and the 962. The team ran at the 24 Hours of Daytona and 12 Hours of Sebring and they won at Sebring in 1981. Chris is on the Porsche Club of America’s National Technical Committee and enjoys helping Club members with their cars and technical challenges.

After twenty-five years as an award winning historic race car competitor, mechanic, and preparation shop owner, Peter Krause shifted gears to rev up a new career utilizing the latest GPS and high definition video equipment to quantify racing driver performance. This intersection of this technology, coupled with Krause's intimate knowledge of the psychology, art and science of "going fast," propelled him into the top tier of driver coaches, perhaps more accurately, driver performance analysts, in North America. Peter maintains a 1,200 square foot learning facility at Virginia International Raceway, complete with simulators to "virtually coach" and plasmas on the wall to review data and video.

Bruce Canepa is the Founder and CEO of Canepa Motor Company and Concept Transporters in Scotts Valley, California. Bruce is passionately involved in all aspects of his companies from vehicle design and development to historic and collector cars sales, restoration, and racing. His company is renown for expertly combining sophisticated design and superb craftsmanship in new vehicles and Pebble Beach level restorations on collector cars, vintage racecars, hot rods, luxury cars, motorcycles, SUVs, you name it. The automotive projects that come out of his companies are recognized as the best of the best. Bruce has raced in all sorts of cars over the years and today runs in most of the premier historic events around the world.

The name “Big Daddy” Don Garlits is synonymous with drag racing. Don’s been dubbed the “King of the Dragsters” and is the patriarch of Top Fuel Drag Racing. His 17 World Championship titles and racing milestones are so numerous it would take me this entire show to list them all. Don’s won the prestigious NHRA U.S. Nationals a record 8 times and he’s raced for over four decades. His famous Swamp Rat series of 34 hand fabricated black race cars carried him to 144 national event wins. Today Don is the CEO of the Garlits Auto Museum in Ocala, Florida. The museum is a treasure trove of drag racing history and a destination for every fan to experience. The fastest Don's ever gone in a dragster? 323.04 mph in Swamp Rat 34 at the 2003 Gator Nationals. That's a quarter mile in 4.72 seconds!

John Wright is from Waterloo, Ontario. He is a journalist who writes stories about cars, racing, and people in racing. He writes for Vintage Race Cars, Victory Lane, and the Canadian publication Old Autos. He did some racing in a Formula Vee and then a race prepared MGB.  

Danny Thompson comes from a family whose name is synonymous with speed. His father, Micky Thompson, is the famed driver and innovator of the Challenger, a man who broke land speed records on the Bonneville Salt Flats. Step by step, Danny Thompson has maintained and expanded his family’s celebrated history in motor sports. Danny raced motocross winning his first 18 races. He then moved on to raing cars in the Formula Atlantic Series, Supervees, and CRA Sprint Cars. He won the opening night of the Mickey Thompson Off-Road Grand Prix and drove for Chevrolet as a factory driver. He’s served as the President of the Mickey Thompson Entertainment Group and later as a consultant to entertainment, promotional, and safety firms.

Jim Kearney operates KDD, Kearney Driver Development. He is a driving coach who’s mission is to help drivers become faster, more consistent, and competitive. He spent 32 years racing in Formula Vee, Formula ford, F2000 and SSC. He is a four-time SCCA Northeast Division FVee Champion with numerous top ten finishes. He’s a published writer with his words appearing in Sports Car magazine and Speed Secrets Weekly to name a few. Jim’s Napkin Manifesto, “Little Things Do Add Up.” Is a testament to Jim’s philosophy about driving fast and tuning the helmet, not engineering the race car. As drivers gain confidence, performance rises and happy drivers go faster.

Ian James is an ex Pat Brit who moved to America from England in 1999 after a successful open wheel career racing junior open wheel formulas. He has been racing successfully ever since in the United States. He is a race winner in the former American LeMans and Grand Am series and well as the continental sports car series. Ian has a truly diversified career and a keen ability to adapt to all types of vehicles. He  currently races for Alex Job Racing in the Tudor Sportscar series driving the heart of Racing 991 GT America Porsche where he's been a drive for the past four years. Team Seattle is a group known by their Racing for the Heart program where they have raised over five million dollars for Seattle Children's Hospital.

John Dagys is an international motorsports journalist and photographer who specializes in the coverage of sports car and endurance racing. For the past ten years, he's traveled the globe reporting on professional auto racing series including the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship, FIA World Endurance Championship and pinnacle events such as the 24 Hours of Le Mans. John founded Sportscar365.com in 2013 that is an independent news source for sports car racing. He also serves as a corespondene for FOXSports.com.

Adam Martin is the Vice President of The Hagerty Institute for Collector Vehicles, Business Development, and Automotive Data & Intelligence. He’s an overachieving classic car enthusiast affectionately known as enthuse-i-Adam. He’s an executive Committee member of the Checkered Flag 200 Club at the Petersen Museum. Recently Adam and Lucy, his 1968 Chevrolet Camaro Sport Coupe were featured in a video on Petrolicious where you can enjoy Adam’s long time passion and enthusiasm for the collector car hobby. Adam always brings Enthuse-i-Adam to everything he does.

David Ray is the founder and group leader at Hooked on Driving. It is a community of enthusiasts who share a passion for driving and they operate in 7 key regions of the U.S. Their focus is providing high performance driver training in the controlled environment of a race course – with NO competition or training for competition. It is all about providing drivers with coaching so they are better and safer drivers. David’s competed in the SCCA regional racing program and the NASA 25 Hour Thunderhill 5 times. He won two Regional Championships in T2 and the Illgen Enduro in two different classes. He’s an SCCA instructor, a driving coach and he was Chair of the new track committee of the San Francisco Region of the SCCA.

Emme is a driver, racer, reviewer, and rabble-rouser. She is the principle driver and trophy winner for the Mega Monkey Motorsports 2 seat 1600 desert racecar, where she has podium finished in class 5U, class 11, and ultra-4. She is one of fewer than 20 American women to participate in the Rallye Aicha des Gazelles, a 9-day, all female off road rally in Morocco where they use no GPS. Emme reviews cars with the guys at the Fast Lane Car, one of the top automotive channels on YouTube. She holds an MFA in Costume Technology from North Carolina School of the Arts and she is a graduate of Yale School of Drama.  She lives in Washington DC and works at a well-known regional theatre. Emme also autocrosses her Mazdaspeed Miata whenever she can.