Cars Yeah With Mark Greene

Bill Tybur is part of Attesa, a company that is developing a motorsports and entertainment destination, featuring residential, commercial, and industrial districts, plus a hotel and convention center, a private air strip and more. The keystone project for Attesa is the Podium Club, a private membership complex that opened Dec. 2021.  It features a road racing track surrounded by race shops, casitas, and garage mahals, a proving grounds and a high performance driving school.

Jon Saltinstall is an author who wrote the book "Niki Lauda: His Competition History," which was published by EVRO Publishing in 2019 and shortlisted for the RAC Motoring Book of the Year. Encouraged by the acclaim for his first book, he moved on to a similar project about another Ferrari star, Jacky Ickx, a driver with a truly eclectic and fascinating racing life. His new book titled Jacky Ickx: His Authorized Competition History is another winning book worth of your library. 

Gregg Blue is a collector with a passion for traveling, old cars, and finding more than unique automobiles to inspire his live. His  career has been one of discovering treasures from around the world.  He’s lived all around the world but today he lives at the bottom of Crater Road on Maui where he can enjoy driving his collection from the sea to 10,000 feet above sea level. The cars he has today are a result of buying and selling and trading for the last 50 years.

Gonen Barkan is the Chief Radar Officer at Arbe, a global leader in Perception Radar Solutions.  There he oversees the technological strategy and leads product specifications and R&D execution to drive Arbe’s innovative solution and the radar industry toward market success. 

Mike Wolfe has earned a reputation as one of the country’s foremost foragers of American history. The creator and star of History Channel’s American Pickers has made a life finding the beauty of forgotten objects and places—preserving them for the rest of us who love to collect. Mike’s here to share his passions along with As Found Collection that he’s consigned to the32nd  annual Mecum Las Vegas Motorcycles  auction taking place January 24 – 28. 

Johnny Böhmer is the Founder of JBR Proving Grounds, a company which provides guidelines, consulting, and testing in accordance with numerous testing facilities throughout the United States. Past Cars Yeah guest Richard Rawlings, of Gas Monkey garage fame, sponsored and partnered with Johnny on his “BADD GT’ project and they cemented its place as the Fastest Street Legal car in the world. They reached a stunning 310.8 MPH. 

Mercedes Thompson is a Junior at McPherson College and a recent recipient of the RPM Foundation Grant. She’s pursuing a degree in automotive restoration design with the goal to open her own business that will have a focus on automotive design and marketing. 

Jill Amadio is an author of both fiction and non-fiction books. As a journalist she has covered auto racing for Gannett Newspapers, National Speed Sports News, the Los Angeles Daily News, and other publications. As a reporter for the Bangkok Post the first race she covered was an F3 event in Macau, Hong Kong. Jill was Communications Director for Skoal Bandit Racing on several circuits including Indycars, NASCAR, Can-Am, sprint, and funny cars. She writes an award-winning mystery series and ghostwrites memoirs. She was the writer for Raoul ‘Sonny’ Balcean’s biography along working with Pete Lyons. It is an engaging memoir from one of American racing's unsung heroes.

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.