2003
North American Concept Vehicle of the Year Awards
Jury Biographies
Phil Bailey
Lachine, Quebec
Phil
Bailey graduated as a Mechanical Engineer from Staffordshire
University and arrived in Montreal in 1960. His father worked
all his life in the automobile industry, starting at Sunbeam,
building the ash frame for the World Land Speed record car
and finishing up at Jensen motors in charge of the FF program.
The Jensen was
30 years ahead of it's time, since it was developed with
a unique hydraulic four wheel drive system. At that time
in Quebec, many British engineers working in the aerospace
industry and many Canadians owning British sports cars,
badly needed somewhere to race. So with that the Mont Tremblant
Race track was conceived and built by enthusiasts for the
princely sum of $80,000! Phil was deeply involved in rallying
at that time and was fortunate enough to have participated
in the Shell 4000 Trans-Canada rally on several different
occasions, driving for Renault.
When Renault
withdrew from rallying and Canada, Phil got involved with
the Tremblant track as Press relations officer and was blessed
with many happy years of racing experience getting to know
such legends as Jimmy Clark, Bruce McLaren and Denny Hulme,
and doing a little club racing of his own on the side.
Phil was also
a member of the American Racing Press Association and followed
the Can-Am series across North America for several years.
Up until the time that Porsche came along and discouraged
everybody! When the Canadian Grand Prix moved to Ile Notre
Dame in the centre of Montreal, Phil was recruited to do
radio commentary.
In his retirement
from consulting engineering, Phil bowed to public pressure
to open a garage whose policy is honesty, integrity and
technical excellence. From his experience, standing under
cars every day and discussing car problems with what is
probably as good a group of technicians (they can't be called
mechanics anymore) as exist anywhere in Canada, Phil is
able to explain, in simple terms, to car owners with no
technical knowledge, the whys and wherefores of their particular
problem and to assure them that he is only doing what he
has to do to keep their car on the road.
Phil can be seen from time to time on the Weather Channel,
CTV and Channel 9, the community network. He writes a regular
column for the Montreal Gazette and has been a well known
radio personality in the Montreal area for many years. He
has worked for both CJAD and CFCF, hosting a talk show about
the automobile industry.
Ron Beasley
Miami, Florida
Ron
Beasley works for Miami's Community Newspapers as editor
of three publications - the Pinecrest Tribune, Biscayne
Bay Tribune and Doral Tribune. He writes a weekly new car
review column, "Let's Talk Cars," that appears
in 13 of the company's publications. He also pens a monthly
editor's column, the Village Voice, that appears in the
Biscayne Bay Tribune and writes news stories and opinion
pieces.
Ron has been
a journalist for almost 40 years, having worked for the
Miami Herald, the Miami News, CBS-affiliate WTVJ in Miami,
KGO-ABC television in San Francisco and the Cable Health
Network in los Angeles. He has also run a public relations
firm.
Lyndon Conrad
Bell
Lafayette, California
Lyndon
Conrad Bell is Editor-in-Chief of OnWheels Incorporated's
publications African Americans OnWheels, Latinos OnWheels
and their website onwheelsinc.com. His work has appeared
in a variety of publications including; Automotive Marketer,
Autoworld Magazine, Essence Magazine and Forbes.com.
In addition to
a lifelong love of automobiles, Lyndon also enjoys going
places he has never been and seeing things he's never seen,
making him perfectly suited to judging a competition of
concept cars. After all, concept cars are cars nobody has
ever seen. Lyndon lives in Lafayette, California with his
lovely wife Lynda.
Michael Bettencourt
Oakville, Ontario
In
his adventures as assistant editor of Carguide magazine,
Michael Bettencourt has seen more than his share of weird
and wonderful wheels, both on the show stage and in living
metal. As a regular columnist for Performance Auto and Sound
magazine, he brings an aftermarket oriented perspective
to his work. "Think concept car designers are out there?
You should see what some people actually drive down the
street."
He also does
photography for the above publications, as well as writing
and shooting for Globe Megawheels, the weekly automotive
section for the Globe and Mail newspaper. Combine this with
his time as copy editor of motorsports magazine Performance
Racing News, and it's easy to see that he loves all things
sleek. "When a fresh concept hits the right buttons,
it's simply magic," says Bettencourt. "Hit the
wrong ones, of course, and it's more disastrous than amateur
standup comedy."
Kami Buchholz
Royal Oak, Michigan
As the name behind the online site www.kjbsyndicate.com,
Kami Buchholz provides readers with vehicle driving impressions
that emphasize the technical features of today's popular
automobiles. In addition to occasional general interest
articles in weekly and daily newspapers, she also reports
on product development trends as the Detroit Editor of Automotive
Engineering International, a monthly publication published
by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE).
Dan Carney
Herndon, Virginia
Dan
Carney is a lifelong car enthusiast residing in the Washington,
D.C. area. He is a freelance journalist specializing in
new technology and motorsports, writing for publications
such as Popular Science, Motor Trend, Automotive Engineering
International, European Car and many others.
Carney has authored
two books, "Honda S2000" and "Dodge Viper,"
both published by Motorbooks International. He is currently
president of the Washington Automotive Press Association
(WAPA). He is an avid motorcyclist, and his helmet is a
familiar sight at WAPA meetings. Carney also enjoys racing
his Formula Ford in Sports Car Club of America events.
Michael Cohn
Homewood, Alabama
Michael
Cohn is the Editor of Rockcrawler 4x4 and Off-Road Magazine.
Rockcrawler is an online publication located at www.rockcrawler.com.
The site covers trails, tech, truck features, and truck/SUV
news.
Michael has recently
added a new site, called SUVMag.com, which will focus more
on SUVs in regard to today's wider definition and demographic.
He is personally involved in every facet of the site's publication
and is very active in the off-road community on a national
level.
In addition to
his love for vehicles with transfer cases, Michael has been
a car nut since childhood and keeps up with all the latest
automotive trends and industry news.
Tom Crosby
Charlotte, North Carolina
Tom
Crosby is vice-president of communications for AAA Carolinas
and editor of GO Magazine, which is a bi-monthly publication
sent to 800,000 households. He writes new car reviews for
GO Magazine, AAA Carolinas' website and 10 newspapers in
North and South Carolina, including the Wilmington Star
in North Carolina.
Tom is a former
reporter for The Washington Star and NBC-TV in Washington,
D.C. He has been with AAA 19 years and is responsible for
his club's public relations, lobbying, car buying service,
member relations and traffic safety departments.
Larry Edsall
Phoenix, Arizona
Larry Edsall is editor of iZoom.com and for 12 years was
an editor at AutoWeek magazine, most of it as managing editor.
He is a freelancer writer based in Phoenix, Arizona, where
he recently helped organize PAPA, the Phoenix Automotive
Press Association. A former daily newspaper sportswriter
and editor, he has driven more than half a million miles
on four continents while covering the auto industry and
its products. He currently is working on a book on concept
cars, to be published in the fall of 2003.
Sam Fiorani
West Chester, Pennsylvania
Sam's experience
in the automotive field ranges from sales to service to
analysis and consulting. In recent years, Sam has written
professional and consumer automotive repair books for the
Chilton Book Company. Sam was an editor for the trucking
trade magazine Commercial Carrier Journal before becoming
the North American Automotive Market Analyst for Standard
& Poor's/DRI. Following a similar position with Price
Waterhouse Coopers' AUTOFACTS Group, Sam has since headed
up global automotive forecasting for AutomotiveCompass.
An active member
of the International Motor Press Association (IMPA) and
the Society of Automotive Historians (SAH), Sam covers both
new and old vehicles, having been published in such noteworthy
periodicals as Automotive History Review, Car Collector,
Collectible Automobile, Auto Body Repair News, and the Christian
Science Monitor. Sam retired from his position as editor
for SAH's "SAH Journal" after the publication
won four consecutive Golden Quill Awards.
Michael Frank
Clintondale, New York
Michael
Frank is a senior editor at Forbes.com's Lifestyle Vehicles
section. He was the automotive editor at Esquire and National
Geographic Adventure, and has covered the car world for
several years.
Winston Goodfellow
Carmel, California
Winston
Goodfellows love affair with the automobile was kindled
in the mid-1970s when he was in high school. One day after
basketball practice, a teammate called out, "You have
to see this!" Parked next to the gym was a new Ferrari
365 GT/4 BB "Berlinetta Boxer" owned by a Saudi
prince who attended a nearby college. A few weeks later
Goodfellow saw another princes Lamborghini Countach
LP400, and he was hooked.
Goodfellow spent
most of the 1980s in the financial services industry, then
changed careers in the early 1990s to become an automotive
writer and photographer. Today his photos and words are
found in books and magazines around the world, and his fine
art prints hang in the homes and offices of auto executives,
designers and collectors. He is a Pebble Beach Concours
Chief Class Judge and a Seminar Leader with the Smithsonian
Institution.
"When I
started my career in the industry," Goodfellow reflects,
"I thought I would specialize in what
interested meconcept, performance and collector cars,
and their history. I soon found myself shooting and driving
things that were fast and cool, and spent time speaking
with the people who created them. I was like a kid with
his hand in a cookie jar!"
He hasnt
looked back. "I am one of the luckiest people in the
world, for I have stumbled onto one of lifes great
secrets," Goodfellow goes on. "If you love what
you do, how can it be considered work?" Goodfellow's
photographic work may be viewed at RollingSculpture.com.
Bob Hall
Carlisle, Pennsylvania
As
publicist for Pennsylvania's Carlisle Events and award-winning
host of "All About Cars" radio show (USA Radio
Network), Bob Hall has turned a life-long love of cars into
a career. He's earned a variety of journalism honors, including
several first-place "Moto Awards" from the International
Automotive Media Conference, and three "Golden Quill
Awards" from the Washington Automotive Press Association.
He previously
served as staff writer for "MotorWeek Television"
and as associate editor of Old Cars WeekIy. His syndicated
newspaper column (also "All About Cars") appears
throughout the Northeast and on www.carsatcarlisle.com.
Bob's work appears
frequently on www.thecarconnection.com and he serves as
contributing automotive editor for WHTM-TV 27, the ABC affiliate
in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Lou Ann Hammond
Auburn, California
Hammond
has been in the automotive business since 1986. She is the
founder and owner of the longest running used car database
in the world and
one of the first auto sites on the internet. Before joining
the automotive industry Lou Ann bought and sold foreign
oil for Chevron Corporation. Her first
driving experience was in Tokyo, Japan where she earned
her high school degree at the young age of 16.
Lou Ann writes
for numerous newspapers, and guests on a radio show every
other week. She belongs to Motor Press Guild (MPG) and Western
Automotive Journalists (WAJ). She has worked with the San
Francisco 49ers, helping them with their car trades for
the past sixteen years.
Hammond resides
in Auburn, CA located in the Sierra Nevada foothills of
California overlooking the Sacramento valley. Her hobbies
include landscaping and building a rock wall around the
perimeter of her acre. She, Mark and their dog, P.J., review
a different car each week.
Tom Kelley
Charlotte, North Carolina
As
head of The Deadline Factory, Tom provides freelance articles
and photographs that appear in dozens of national magazines
with nearly 1.5 million readers combined.
Active in many
industry associations, including Detroit's Automotive Press
Association, SEMA and its TCAA division, and the Automotive
Aftermarket Industry Association, Tom is the co-founder
of the South East Automotive Media Organization (SEAMO)
and serves as a director of the Truck Writers of North America.
Along with technology
coverage that can include editing a shop manual or writing
about the latest telematics and intelligent-highway systems,
Tom also writes numerous light truck reviews from both an
adventure-travel perspective, and the business-user's perspective.
BJ Killeen
Sherman Oaks, California
BJ
Killeen, one of only a handful of female automotive journalists
in the country, is well known in the industry. The former
Road Test Editor of Motor Trend magazine now freelances
for numerous automotive titles, as well as writing for automotive
websites such as Popular Mechanics, and Pickuptruck.com.
She is the New Vehicle/Industry Editor for Super Rod magazine,
Hot Compact and Import magazine, and all the other Buckaroo
Communications publications.
BJ is currently
the Road Test Editor and co-host of "Driver's Talk"
Radio a live Saturday broadcast that covers Central California.
BJ also is an editor-at-large of American Woman Road and
Travel website, for women interested in automobiles and
motorcycles.
After receiving
her degree in English from UCLA, BJ joined the staff of
Motorcyclist magazine, where she cultivated a fondness for
motorcycles and dirt bikes. She then moved on to Motor Trend
magazine, where she worked her way up to become the road
test editor, and was responsible for writing many monthly
columns, road tests and comparison tests, as well as voting
in the prestigious Car, Truck, and Import Car of the Year
competitions. BJ also is the stand-in co-host of the nationally
syndicated radio program "America on the Road,"
with a listening audience of 3.5 million. BJ guest hosts
on the "The Car Show" and "In the Driver's
Seat" automotive radio programs. BJ also has appeared
on television as an authority in her field, most recently
on "Home Matters" on the Discovery Channel, as
well as on a variety of morning news shows across the country.
As a freelance
writer, BJ has worked on numerous writing assignments for
firms such as dkn Marketing, PBM Marketing, Jackson-Dawson
Communications, Paine and Associates, and Young and Rubicam.
She is a multiple winner of the prestigious IAMC awards,
and has served as a judge on numerous automotive competitions.
BJ also has done freelance writing for many of the major
automotive manufacturing companies.
A big racing
fan, her love of automobiles started early, having been
exposed to the field through her father, who owned an assortment
of collector classics, such as a '61 Austin-Healey 3000,
a '641/2 Mustang, and other vehicles. BJ, a native Southern
Californian, is married to automotive photographer Scott
Killeen and lives in Sherman Oaks, California, and also
is a two-year past president of the Motor Press Guild, the
organization that represents almost 600 automotive journalists
and industry representatives across the country.
Ashly Knapp
Seattle, Washington
Ashly
Knapp began his transportation career as an apprentice bicycle
mechanic in New York City. His background includes work
as a professional taxi driver, an auto mechanic and an automotive
salesperson. Ashly has been involved in the transportation
industry, particularly the study of vehicles since 1971,
focusing on invention technology and its overall sociological
impact. In 1977, Ashly founded AutoAdvisor, a consumer-oriented
information and consulting service.
Ashly has contributed
to media organizations since 1977 when he first debuted
on KZAM radio on a talk show about cars and people. Over
the ensuing years he has contributed to all forms of media
as an expert on automotive issues. Ashly's work has included
two different radio shows on ABC and NBC affiliates, along
with car reviews for 17 years for AAA Motorist. Highlights
of Ashly's career include an appearance on the Oprah Winfrey
show and two separate appearances on CNN.
Bob Kroupa
Greensboro, North Carolina
Bob Kroupa is one of the principals of the Automotive Writers
Group with offices in Greensboro, NC and Chicago, IL. He
is also the Editor of the Vette-N-Vestment monthly Corvette
Market Letter and has a monthly column, "On the Block"
in Corvette Fever Magazine. In the "New Automotive"
department, Bob also provides articles for the News and
Record Daily Newspaper in Greensboro, NC.
Eric Mayne
Southfield, MichiganI
A
native of Santa Ana, CA, Eric Mayne joined Ward's Communications
in December 2000. He brings more than 20 years of newspaper
experience, having covered the auto industry in Canada for
The Windsor Star. He was also a regular freelance contributor
to The Toronto Star.
A graduate of
the University of Windsor, Eric has won nearly a dozen awards
for news and feature writing. Favorite car: '55 Pontiac
Safari. Most interesting interview subject: CAW founder
Bob White.
Jim Meachen
Goldsboro, North Carolina
Jim
Meachen is an editor for the Goldsboro News-Argus in Goldsboro,
NC. He has been covering the auto industry and reviewing
new vehicles for 10 years. He currently writes a weekly
review for the Goldsboro (N.C.) News Argus and the Los Angeles
Daily News. His reviews also appear on line.
Meachen is a
native of South Dakota and worked for several newspapers
in South Dakota and Iowa before coming to North Carolina.
He spent four years in the Air Force during the Vietnam
era writing and compiling a quarterly history of the 68th
Bombardment Wing.
He has won several
writing awards during his long tenure with the News-Argus,
first as sports editor and currently as executive news editor.
Mark Phelan
Detroit, Michigan
Based in Detroit, Mark Phelan has covered the auto industry
around the world for nearly 20 years. Curently a business
writer for the Detroit Free Press, he previously has edited
and written for a wide variety of consumer and business
publications.
Phelan lived
in Europe for several years and wrote extensively about
the auto industry there. He was founding editor, and most
recently Editor-In-Chief, of Automotive Business International
Magazine, a German publication covering vehicle news, business
and technology issues.
Phelan has also
written for the New York Times, Road & Track Magazine,
Ward's Communications, Automotive Industries Magazine, and
many other publications.
Chris Poole
Glendale, California
Chris
Poole, 55, has served since late 1986 as West Coast Auto
Editor for Publications International Ltd. (PIL), home of
Consumer Guide books and magazines. He is also editor-at-large
for PIL's bimonthly Collectible Automobile magazine, recently
honored by the Society of Automotive Historians for continuing
excellence. A lifelong car enthusiast, Poole joined PIL
at its Chicago-area headquarters in mid-1979.
Among his many
book and magazine credits are Great Book of Sports Cars
(with Graham Robson and the late Dean Batchelor), The Encyclopedia
of American Cars (with Richard M. Langworth), and Ford:
The Complete History, an SAH Award of Merit honoree.
Poole works out
of his home in suburban Glendale, California. His editorial
duties range from testing new models to writing about historic
automobiles. Poole is a past secretary and vice-president
of the Motor Press Guild, the Los Angeles-based association
of automotive writers and public-relations professionals.
He also appears occasionally on local and national radio
and television as guest automotive commentator.
Philip Powell
Sidney, British Columbia
Philip
Powell is a pioneering automobile journalist who can lay
claim to writing and announcing Canada's first weekly auto
shows on radio and television.
He was editor
of Canada's first car magazine, track announcer at major
races on both sides of the border, and as a long-ago racer,
won a CRDA class championship. Switching to advertising,
Philip enjoyed a lengthy agency career as a creative director
in New York, London, and Toronto, specializing in car accounts.
Still young and
active at 72, he now produces the Auto Buying site for About.com.
Brenda Priddy
Phoenix, Arizona
Lens
extraordinaire Brenda Priddy has earned a reputation as
one of the world's pre-eminent automotive "spy"
photographers. Her undercover exclusives have become regular
feature in many magazines . These popular stealth-type photos
are in high demand and her client list has included publications
such as Car & Driver, Motor Trend, Automotive News,
Road & Track, Forbes, Business Week and USA Today. Brenda's
business has been highlighted in several print publications,
including Newsweek, The New York Times, Sports Car International,
and various domestic and international magazines.
In addition to
lurking behind trees and juggling multiple cameras with
high- tech lenses, Ms. Priddy also writes about the automotive
industry and is a contributing editor and photographer with
three national automotive publications.
When not writing
reviews or photographing future cars, Brenda relaxes with
her husband of over 20 years, John (her partner in car reviews),
and her two over-energized children, Becca and Zachary -
both published photographers themselves. In what little
free time there is left, Brenda devotes herself to volunteering
as an advocate for AEDs (automatic external defibrillators)
and is helping to bring these lifesaving devices into schools,
work places and communities everywhere. The Priddy's live
in Arizona with a house full of dogs, cats, birds and tortoises.
Sylvie Rainville
Beauport, Québec
Thirty
six years old, Sylvie Rainville boasts of an enviable experience
in automotive journalism. Before taking over from her dad
Jacques Rainville who passed away in January 2001, she got
involved doing various things under her dad's supervision.
As a full time contributor with the Quebec City French paper
Le Journal de Québec, she covers various aspects
of the auto world like concept vehicles, industry news,
new cars review, gossips about local dealers and other relevant
companies. She also does an auto supplement 5 times a year
for the same publication.
Sylvie is also
the editor of the French edition (Le Magazine Carguide)
of the prestigious Carguide Magazine published 6 times a
year, by Formula Publications based in Oakville, Ontario
(Canada). Before her promotion as editor, Sylvie did various
assignments for the magazine. Sylvie also writes a weekly
column, a prestige and luxury car review, in Le Journal
Économique, a publication covering the economic activities
in Quebec, Canada. She is also an associate editor of the
website www.guideauto.com, founded by her father and some
of his colleagues back in 1977.
www.guideauto.com
is viewed as a major automobile website on account of its
complete informative content and presentation. Sylvie, being
a person who loves motorsport entered the 2002 Rally Targa
Newfounland, the ultimate North American tarmac rally that
run across that Canadian province. She also attends major
events in automobile such as international auto shows in
Detroit, New York, Montreal, Toronto, Quebec City, just
to name a few. In her everyday life Sylvie lives in the
suburb of Quebec City with her husband and her two lovely
dogs.
Jim Scoutten
Franklin, Tennessee
Jim
Scoutten's career began in All News Radio while still in
broadcasting school; then came TV News, starting as weekend
anchor for the ABC affiliate in Honolulu. He's been a Reporter,
Anchor, Producer and News Director, while working for stations
in Minneapolis, Honolulu, Phoenix, Seattle, Greater Houston,
and Savannah, GA.
Scoutten has
produced shows on automotive news, new vehicles and classic
cars for TNN for the past 11 years. He formerly produced
Car and Driver TV, working closely the Csaba Csere, Editor
in-Chief of Car and Driver Magazine. Under Scoutten's direction,
Car and Driver Television has won five International Automotive
Media Awards for excellence in broadcast reporting.
Marc K. Stengel
Nashville, Tennessee
Marc
K. Stengel is a syndicated columnist whose "What I'm
Driving At" weekly column appears nationally in newspapers,
assorted magazines and the Internet "webzine"
TheCarConnection.com. Stengel also contributes to the publications
Sport Compact Car and AMI AutoWorld and his written for
The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Book Review ,The
(London) Spectator, the Pittsburgh City Paper, (Charlotte,
NC) Creative Loafing, Memphis Flyer, Miami New Times and
the (Birmingham) Black & White Weekly. He has worked
for TV's Road Test Magazine on TNN: The Nashville Network
and Motor Trend Television.
Over the years,
his work has been selected for various awards from the International
Automotive Media Conference and the Tennessee Outdoor Writers
Association.
Bob Storck
NewCarTestDrive.com
Bob
Storck's auto features are published in over 80 newspapers
and 20 magazines, appearing in print on every continent.
Outlets include African-American, Hispanic, and family publications,
with well over 20 million readers. His education and degrees
cover engineering, data systems, and business operations,
with a rich personal knowledge of the history and technology
of aviation, motoring, telecommunications and manufacturing.
Bob flew with
the US Navy, and competed in international endurance auto
races. He is an advisor to several transportation museums,
and is on two Smithsonian Institution committees. His family
hails from the Midwest, and they still own the cabin they
built in 1932 on Crosslake, MN.
Kelly Taylor
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Kelly
Taylor has been a professional journalist since beginning
in 1988 as a general assignment reporter with the Winnipeg
Sun. That same year, he took a similar position at the Brandon
Sun in Brandon, Manitoba until August, 1989, when he began
at the Winnipeg Free Press as a business reporter.
In 1995, Taylor
began a series of upward moves, joining the night copy desk,
later becoming a makeup editor and assistant news editor
before assuming his current role as automotive editor in
August of 2000. Taylor is responsible for all aspects of
editorial production of the automotive section, including
recruitment of freelancers, writing and editing copy and
layout and design of the section.
Taylor is also
a member of the Automobile Journalists Association of Canada
and an evaluator for the Canadian Car of the Year Award,
which is determined during a rigorous four-day selection
process at a race track outside Belleville, Ontario. Kelly
was recently named 2002 Canadian Automotive Journalist of
the Year by the Automobile Journalists Association of Canada,
an award presented by Jaguar.
Jim Tucker
Marietta, Georgia
Jim
is Publisher of Southern Automotive Journal, a monthly trade
publication focusing on news, trends and perspective in
the automotive aftermarket and retailing fields. The publication
is distributed in five southeast states: Alabama, Florida,
Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee.
Jim began his
automotive publishing career with his first magazine, Georgia
Automotive Business. He has published several automotive
related publications over the last ten years.
Arv Voss
Vallejo, California
Arvel
"Arv" Voss is a Northern California based freelance
automotive journalist whose Auto Impressions column appears
in various newspapers and magazines across the country.
A fan of things automotive since childhood, he has collected
and restored many cars and trucks over the years, among
those still owned, are a 1925 Chevrolet Touring, a 1939
Ford sedan delivery, a 1940 Ford Pickup street rod and a
1957 Porsche Speedster.
Voss made the
move from the advertising and marketing side of the newspaper
business over a decade ago to the editorial side where he
could pursue his passion for wheeled vehicles. A charter
member of the Western Automotive Journalists, he served
two terms as president of that organization and several
years as a Vice President prior to that. He and his wife
reside in a restored Victorian Vallejo city landmark that
is on the National Registry as well. Also an avid sailor,
he is a Past Commodore of the Vallejo Yacht Club and additionally
enjoys boat restoration.
Max Wickens
Hamilton, Ontario
Max
Wickens is a veteran reporter, editor and photographer.
He began writing about automobiles and the industry in 1961
and is formerly the Canadian correspondent for Automotive
News.
As a nationally
syndicated columnist, he was one of the 8 founders of the
Automobile Journalists Association of Canada. Also, he served
for a while as an auto industry communications executive.
Max currently freelances for Car Guide magazine and MegaWheels,
the automotive section of Canada's national daily -- The
Globe and Mail. He also contributes to and occasional co-hosts
2 weekly automotive radio shows in the Toronto area.
Laurence Yap
Scarborough, Ontario
Laurance
Yap is a freelance writer, photographer, art director, and
Macintosh technician in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is
a regular contributor to the Toronto Star, World of Wheels
magazine, CanadianDriver.com, and several other publications,
in addition to being art director for World of Wheels.
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Paul Abelson
Lisle,
Illinois
Larry Dietz
Santa Monica, California