Cars Yeah With Mark Greene

Carey Rouse is a race car driver and a racing fan who travels around the United States in his RV, full time. He interviews racing fans and shares them on his Driven to Compete podcast, YouTube page, Blog, and website. Carey combines his nomadic lifestyle, RV life, love for racing and meeting individuals in the automotive world in a unique and exciting way. 

Jonathan Ornstein is a vintage racer who has enjoyed lapping tracks for 20 years. After riding sport bikes for over 30 years he began vintage racing in a 1973 Porsche 911 running his first race at Phoenix International Raceway. Since that first race Jonathan has raced a wide variety of vintage race cars including a B Sedan Datsun 510 to a Mario Andretti Formula 5000 Lotus 70. While racing primarily in California at Laguna Seca, Sonoma, Fontana and Willow Springs, Jonathan has also raced at road America, COTA, Sebring, Daytona and Watkins Glen. 

Tom McIntyre is a vintage racer who has enjoyed lapping tracks since 1961. However, he’s really more a conservator. Tom carries other titles including “successful businessman”, who was an entrepreneur in every sense of the word before the noun became a commonplace moniker. But, in the automotive realm, even though his business acumen is primarily auto-bound, he is a caretaker entrusted with protecting, preserving, and, more importantly, enjoying some of the finest racing machines that world’s craftsmen and artisans have made. 

Evan Ide is an automotive historian, author and restorer specializing in automobiles built prior to WWII. He is a Vice President, Senior Specialist with Bonhams Cars auction house and is the founder and principal of Historic Vehicle Services restoration shop. Evan is on the Selection Committee for the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. An avid collector himself with a largely pre-war collection.

Egon Zweimüller is the owner of Egon Zweimüller Automobile & Restauration. Since 1964 the company has been passionate about classic, vintage, and competition automobiles. Their profound knowledge, practical experience, trust, and a true passion for cars has made for lasting relationships with their partners and clients. This summer Egon will bring a very special McLaren M1A to the lawn at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. Created by Bruce McLaren and McLaren Racing while Bruce was still driving for Cooper in Formula 1, this was the first car to wear the McLaren name and logo. The car was raced extensively and was later eventually found its way to debut in the movie Spin Out featuring Elvis Presley.

Dr. Mark Brinker is a world-renowned orthopedic surgeon with a lifelong passion for helping others and the automobile. Mark is an automotive enthusiast, collector, vintage racer, historian, and journalist. Mark’s current car collection includes 35 carefully curated postwar sports cars primarily from Italy, the U.S., and Japan. He will have two cars on the lawn this summer at Pebble Beach.

Amanda Stretton is the new Master of Ceremonies at the 2023 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. Amanda is the UK’s leading female motorsport, classic car, and automotive TV broadcaster. She is renowned for her passion and knowledge of contemporary and classic racing and her understanding of the international car industry. But Amanda is more than a presenter, unlike her peers she has raced competitively in historic GT and Le Mans prototypes on the world’s most famous racetracks and is still the only British female racing driver to have won an International long distance GT race. 

John Hennessey, founder, and CEO of Hennessey Special Vehicles, Hennessey Performance, Tuner School, and Lonestar Motorsports Park, has been making fast cars faster for more than 32 years. Hennessey is well known for building powerful cars and trucks that deliver astonishing horsepower and neck-snapping acceleration. Constantly pushing the performance envelope, John Hennessey's most recent debut is the $3 million Venom F5 – the world’s most powerful pure-combustion hypercar with 1,817 horsepower and an engineered top speed in excess of 300 mph!  

Alois Ruf is a legend in the world of unique, tuned Porsche automobiles. The name Ruf has stood for competence in the automotive world for more than 80 years. Ruf Automobile is a family-run automobile manufacturer based in the heart of Bavaria, Germany. Ruf is not only the family name of the company's founder, Alois Ruf Sr., who brought the company to life in 1939, but also a name that stands for technical excellence, authenticity, passion and driving pleasure. The family business is characterized not only by its powerful and elegant vehicles manufactured in-house, but also by the attention to detail and the craftsmanship that goes into every single Ruf car that leaves the Pfaffenhausen plant. 

Dave Amantea is the Chief Design Officer at Automobili Pininfarina where for almost 90 years, this iconic design house has shaped the automotive world giving countless luxury and sport vehicles a distinctive shape. They have been the pioneers of a world of purity and innovation. Dave’s career includes being a professor at the IAAD University of Design, A Senior Exterior Designer and Team Leader at Jaguar Land Rover, and Senior Exterior Lead Designer at NIO. In 2018 he returned to Italy to join Pininfarina and their Battista Hypercar presented him with a completely new and exciting design challenge. Dave will be with his colleagues on the lawn at this year's Quail, debuting the new Battista. 

Jeff Jennings is the Director of Marketing and Customer Service at Velocity Restorations where they build classic vehicles for the modern driver. Integrating contemporary parts and components with vintage design. Get the vehicle of your dreams with a guaranteed production timeline– that’s the Velocity pledge. 

Patrick Kelley is an author with a fascination for all things automotive. Years ago he expanded this passion and started collecting original automobile concept art. Today he shares his new book, Imagine Too! Towards the Future, published by Dalton Watson Fine Books. It takes the reader back to a time when the sky was the limit, dreams and visions were encouraged and restrictions were few with over 600 never-before-seen automobile concept images and over 130 artists. This is a wonderful companion to his earlier IMAGINE! book.

Bob Barber is an automotive painter who has been laying down color for decades. He started at Molin Body where he stayed for 27 years. There he painted Ferraris, Aston Martins, and exotics learning his trade along the way. They also painted Penske race cars including 2 Indy winners. In 1998 Bob started his own business, working on high end cars, race cars, and more. Today he works with his son, laying down paint, improving their work, and making vehicles look fantastic.  

Ronald Ahrens is a freelance writer who contributes to Hour Detroit, DBusiness, Detroit’s Premier Business Journal, and Palm Springs Life. A centerpiece of his career is having written for the late and much-lamented Automobile magazine, lead by the late David E. Davis, over a 33-year period. The June issue of Palm Springs Life will feature Ronald’s words covering IndyCar, Hour Detroit, and others. 

Mitch Scher is a dentist who is also an automotive enthusiast and the Co-Founder of Drivedowncars.com. It’s a boutique website for enthusiasts aiming at simplifying the car buying process. Instead of the usual ‘wait till the last minute’ buying frenzy Mitch and his Co-Founder Taylor Davis have come up with a unique and easier process. 

Alan Galbraith is the Founder of Concours d’Lemons where they celebrate the oddball, mundane, and truly awful of the entire automotive world. You’ll find his events embedded around well-known concours nationwide including Amelia Island, Monterey Car Week, and other more formal automotive gatherings. Concours d’Lemons was born highlighting a worldwide series of car shows that highlights the worst of the automotive world in a fun and humorous way.

‘Nitro’ Joe Morrison is a drag racer who has been on the track for over 15 years. In 2011 he was the North-East Timing Organization Comp Eliminator Season Champion. After 3 seasons of racing part time in Top Fuel, Joe is making the change to Nitro Funny Car this season and plans to make his debut in his second NHRA pro class later this year. Mike made it his mission to honor his friend’s legacy along with inspiration to his father Chuck who was diagnosed with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). He created Right2Breathe to build awareness about the disease and strive to help others with the affliction. 

Paul Ward has been a professional photographer for over 30 years and recently won his category at the British Photography 2020 Awards. He works closely with Limited 100 and Paddock Speedshop where you can enjoy his images. Over the years his photography has been published in many books and magazines both in the UK and internationally and his architectural images currently adorn the walls aboard Cunard’s flagship Queen Mary 2. 

Mark Hutchison is an automotive enthusiast with a love for station wagons. His on-the-road career in the athletic footwear industry has including time at Adida and Fila plus Foot Locker, Coleman Sporting Goods, and Athletic Attic. This combined with having a family, four boys, dogs, and a need for a ‘family’ style car, has put vehicles like minivans, Jeeps, and Suburbans in his driveway. His  latest ride has elevated the fun of his time on the road. Mark has a Mercedes-Benz, AMG E63 wagon so he’s probably the only sales rep in the country combining his work car with his love for sportiness. 

South African-born Glen Smale is a professional motor journalism and photographer. He’s authored eighteen books covering sports cars and motor racing, and founded the photo agency Virtual Motorpix, specializing in sports cars and motorsports racing. His newest book is titled Le Mans: 100 Years: A Century at the World’s Greatest Race published by Motorbooks. It is a compilation of the history of Le Mans packed with photography, narrative, and much, much more. Glen has been a member of the Guild of Motoring Writers since 1994.