Chairman, Endurance Rally Association Fred Gallagher Fred Gallagher grew up in a part of Northern Ireland where those noted for...
Panel Beater, Collector Discovers Artistry in Aluminium Paul Pennell has been entrenched in the world of motors from a very early age. He would watch and help his father work at the family business, Pennell’s Motor Repairs Ltd., during his formative years. Upon leaving school, his natural progression was to...
Event Director, Motorclassica Having just celebrated its sixth successful year, Australia’s Motorclassica has gone from strength to strength with preparations...
Owner, Grand Prix Classics VR: Can you tell me a little bit about how, or when, you were first bitten...
Executive Director, Petersen Automotive Museum VR: Can you tell me a little bit about how you first came to cars and when you were first bitten by the bug? Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited...
Lory Lockwood, David Snyder and Dan Reed During The Elegance at Hershey, this past June, VR Contributor J. Michael Hemsley...
Brian Blain: President, Blain Farms Car Collector, Restorer VR: So when where you first bitten by the car bug? Become...
President and COO of Black Horse Garage in Bridgeport, Connecticut Vintage Roadcar’s J. Michael Hemsley met John Buonanno at The Elegance at Hershey. Buonanno is the President and COO of Black Horse Garage in Bridgeport, Connecticut. After chatting about the Alfa Romeo he had accompanied to the show, talk turned...
Paul Chenard, Automotive Artist/Illustrator VR: How did you first get involved with cars? Presumably it was at a young age,...
John Campion is a high energy guy and radiates that energy everywhere he goes. Perhaps it’s because he started his...
Rabin’s customers include such hobby notables as Ralph Lauren and Jay Leno, pictured here with a 1919 Rolls-Royce that Rabin created the wheel covers for. VR: Mike, how did first come to be bitten by the car bug? MR: When I was a baby maybe two years old, three years...
Philip Young: Founder and GM of the Endurance Rally Association The second part of our interview with Philip Young, head of...
Stephen Laing is curator of the Heritage Motor Centre at Gaydon. Stephen Laing is the current Curator of the Heritage...
Philip Young heads the Endurance Rally Association (ERA) a motor club he founded just over 25 years ago that organizes some of today’s most inspiring classic rallies. While some events are held in one country or continent, many, like the Peking to Paris, are truly trans-continental rallies over several thousand...
The picturesque village of Cropredy, Oxfordshire, home to approximately 700 souls, is little known to most, even to those living...
VR: When did you first become interested in cars? RM: My earliest memory is being in front of my house,...
VR: So how did you first come to cars? I assume it was probably at a fairly young age? KB: It was at a fairly young age. Slot cars were the beginning of this, but I grew up in Manhattan so I envied kids in more suburban or rural environs...
Gary Dearn started work for British Rail and now is the Club Secretary for the Ferrari Owner’s Club of Great...
Michael Furman spoke with our J. Michael Hemsley about his life, his career and the cars that move him. Michael...
VR: How does an accomplished neurosurgeon become such an accomplished car guy? FS: Both of those things relate to my Dad, and my relationship with my Dad. He was a general practitioner who worked his way through medical school fixing cars. When I was a boy, we would go on...
Oosthoek’s first car was this ’50s Fiat 1100, which was so rusty, he covered the holes with decals! VR: How...
VR: So, let’s go back to ground zero, if you will. How did you first get involved with cars? RC:...
Graham Gauld has written more than 16 books and been deeply invovled in the hobby for over 60 years. He speaks and writes with a lilting Scottish accent that defies and ignores commas and periods. He claims he is not a motor racing historian but a storyteller, yet has a...
Ken Gross is an automotive journalist whose work has appeared in Playboy, and a number of street rod and hot...
Bruce Trenery founded his classic car dealership, Fantasy Junction, in 1976. VR: Why don’t we step all the way back...
Dan Radowicz worked at the famed Griswold’s restoration shop before joining the organization team at the California Mille. VR: In the immortal words of Sigmund Freud, tell me about your childhood. How did you first get started with cars? DR: Well, I was—what’s the term I’m looking for—I was cursed...
Simon Moore Although consisting of only two books, the body of work credited to Simon Moore is both enormous and...
Jeff Lane enjoys driving his cars as often as possible, including this Fiat Balilla. In June, Vintage Roadcar had an...
Charles Betz Fred Peters VR: How did you first come to cars? I know you both go way back with your involvement in the hobby, but what got you started originally? FP: I was born and grew up in Santa Monica, while Charles grew up in South Gate, which was...
