North American Concept Vehicle of the Year Awards
Jury Biographies

Paul Abelson
Lisle, Illinois
Paul Abelson grew up as a sports car buff, competing with a modicum of success in club events with his Volvo P-1800 S. After landing on his lid and finding that wheel-to-wheel competition was not his thing, he "retired" to the corners as a turn marshal with SCCA and the British Sports Car Owners Association (BSCOA) of New York in the 1960s. After a long absence from organized competition, the resident of the Chicago area again became active in road racing. He maintains his National Pit Marshal license and is a Divisional Technical Inspector with the SCCA.

Paul is currently Senior Technical Editor of Land Line Magazine, serving heavy-truck owner operators and small fleets. Besides his articles on equipment and maintenance, he has a column called "Personal Wheels" in which he reviews four-wheelers. Previously, he was Technical Editor of Super Driver Audio Tape Magazine. At Super Driver, he reviewed passenger cars, pickups, vans and SUVs each month, and wrote a column of miscellaneous automotive information and opinion called "Car Guy." Abelson has won gold, silver and bronze awards from the IAMA, Truck Writers of North America (TWNA) and ASBPE. In 2006, Paul was honored with TWNA's Lifetime Achievement Award.

Paul is active in industry and automotive affairs. He is a program chairman at the SAE Commercial Vehicles meeting and is among the senior leadership of the Technology and Maintenance Council (TMC). Between the two organizations, he wrote about a dozen Recommended Practices on equipment and maintenance. He served on various Boards of Directors, including TMC, TWNA, the National Association of Show Trucks and the Illinois Trucking Association Maintenance Council. The Air Force veteran has a BS from NYU and a Masters from Michigan State. He has a Commercial Drivers License (CDL) and regularly reviews trucks of all sizes.

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).

Thom Cannell
Lansing, Michigan
This veteran automotive photographer and journalist sold his first story to The Competition Press (later AutoWeek) in 1976. Originally a racing reporter covering the North American rally scene, Cannell began to cover USAC racing during the turbulent changeover from Offenhauser engines to Cosworth V-8s and CART. Additional assignments resulted in stories about NASCAR and even Formula One.

Since then Cannell's stories and photos have appeared US automotive enthusiast publication: Car & Driver, Road & Track, Motor Trend, AutoWeek, Automobile, Winding Road, Automotive Traveler, AutoTech Daily, Truckin, Turbo, Sport Truck, Street Truck, TheAutoChannel.com. Thom is the US correspondent for Germany's Auto and 4Wheel Fun. As a corporate photographer he has contributed to "Every automotive manufacturer from Audi to Yugo."

When not behind the wheel, you will find him at a Lansing YMCA pursuing his "if I ever retire" career in exercise and personal training, or just out dancing.

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 FHM, Edmunds Inside Line, Truck Trend, Sports Car International, and Automotive Engineering International 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 over 19 years and is responsible for his club's public relations, lobbying, car buying service, member relations and traffic safety departments.

Winston Goodfellow
Carmel, California
Winston Goodfellow’s 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 prince’s 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 me—concept, 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 hasn’t looked back. "I am one of the luckiest people in the world, for I have stumbled onto one of life’s 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.

Art Gould
Placentia, California
Art Gould is the co-host of the weekly radio show, The Car Show, on 90.7fm Los Angeles, aired continuously on the same station, same day and virtually the same time slot since 1973. This is the longest running electronic show (radio, TV, or internet) on the automoblile industry in the country. With 112,000 watts, the show is heard from Santa Barbara to San Diego, CA.

Art writes a regular new car review column in The Washington Times auto section, as well as a monthly column in Global Auto News covering auto features, and auto events in the movie industry.

Lou Ann Hammond
Auburn, California
Lou Ann Hammond is an automotive entrepreneur who is the owner and founder of www.carlist.com, the longest running used car database and one of the first auto sites on the internet.

Before joining the automotive industry Hammond bought and sold foreign oil for Chevron Corporation. Her first driving experience was in Tokyo Japan, where she graduated from high school at the young age of 16.

Hammond can be heard every week on the John Batchelor show on ABC radio New York. She is Vice President of Western Automotive Journalists, a member of the Motor Press Guild.

Hammond resides in Auburn, California, located in the Sierra Nevada foothills, overlooking the Sacramento valley with her husband "Stretch" and their dog and three cats.

Isaac Hernandez
Santa Barbara, California
Isaac Hernández has been documenting automotive life for over 20 years. His beautiful photographs are regularly published on all inhabited continents. He writes in both English and Spanish; his witty articles are also translated to over a dozen languages, including Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese and Swedish. His photographs and paintings have adorned hundreds of magazine covers, books, newspapers, music albums and galleries.

Isaac is editor at MercuryPress.com, an international media agency and photo archive. He also publishes AutoTao.com, a multilingual blog for automotive fans. Isaac is a US Correspondent for over 40 international publications, including El Mundo, the second largest national newspaper in Spain. Above all, Isaac loves humanity, as can be seen in his people photography, found at IsaacHernandez.com.

Jim Jackson
St. Charles, Illinois
Auto Writer Jim Jackson delivers The Times Newspapers' "driveTimes" column to over 100,000 readers in 10 markets throughout Northwest Indiana and Southeast Suburban Chicago. The Chicago-based journalist has worked at The Times for eight years. He has also served as Technical Manager for Vette-N-Vestments publications and freelanced for Corvette Fever magazine. Jackson lives in suburban Chicago and is a member of the Midwest Automotive Media Association.

 

Kevin Kelly
Plymouth, Michigan
Growing up in a U.A.W. household in the suburban Detroit community of Warren, Kevin Kelly has seen the inner workings of the auto industry from every perspective. His father worked at GM's technical center as a clay model maker for 39 years, allowing Kevin to get inside GM's massive design studios as a youngster, although little did he know he was viewing top-secret vehicles at the time because he was too busy playing with the leftover clay.

Kevin began his automotive journalism career on a bet from a friend, who said Kevin would be unable to break his way into the world of auto wordsmithing; he later cashed in on that free dinner. After toiling in the ranks of radio journalism for several years at Detroit radio station WPON, Kevin moved on to wire-service journalism as correspondent for BridgeNews, working his way up to the post of Senior Automotive Correspondent responsible for managing global coverage of the auto industry.

After more than five years in the wire service business, Kevin moved on to the more exciting world of the auto trade press, joining Ward's Communications as their European Editor. Having driven the famed Fiorano Ferrari test track and traversed the Portuguese auto industry during his four-year tenure at Ward's, Kevin decided it was time to move on to greener pastures and joined the staff of AD&P as Senior Editor in July 2005.

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. A former Road Test Editor for Motor Trend magazine, BJ now freelances for numerous automotive titles and websites, as well as being a contributing editor to JD Power and Associates. She currently is the Road Test Editor and co-host of “Driver’s Talk” Radio, a live Saturday broadcast that is heard in over a dozen markets across the country.

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 an occasional guest host on the “The Car Show” automotive radio program. 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.

She is a multiple winner of the prestigious IAMC awards, including the gold medal for Best of Radio, and is a judge for numerous automotive competitions, including Concept Vehicle of the Year, International Car of the Year Awards, and Urban Wheel Awards.

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, lives in Sherman Oaks, California, and is a two-year past president of the Motor Press Guild, the organization that represents almost 750 automotive journalists and industry representatives across the country.

BJ and Scott have embarked on a new publishing venture, called BUILD BOOK, From Concept to Reality, which focuses on the build of one specific custom vehicle. BUILD BOOK #1 features Joe Rogan’s 1970 ’Cuda, built by Troy Trepanier of Rad Rides by Troy. BUILD BOOK #2 showcases POSIES Rods & Customs’ 1935 Aeroliner Sport. BUILD BOOK #3 highlights a 1961 Starliner built for Summit Racing by ProRides, BUILD BOOK #4 covers a 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air built by the legendary Boyd Coddington, and BUILD BOOK #5 features the Ringbrothers’ Reactor Mustang, the Goodguys Street Machine of the Year award winner.

Ashly Knapp
Seattle, Washington
Before and during college, Ashly drove a Checker Marathon Cab nights in his native Manhattan. It was his first job as a professional driver. Over the next few years' young Ashly worked as a car mechanic and an automotive retailer.

After college Ashly studied personal transportation costs and their relationship to personal values. In 1977, he founded AutoAdvisor, Inc. the nation's oldest national consumer consulting and buyer's service. Today autoadvisor.com has helped countless individuals acquire better, safer, more reliable vehicles at lower prices.

Ashly became an auto writer in 1978 when he was asked to write monthly automobile reviews for the AAA. In the late 80's he worked with Money Magazine to publish their first real automobile transaction price guide and continued to do so for many years. During his independent career he has worked with J.D. Powers, Zeno Group, Automotive News, Reuters, and had his own automotive talk shows on ABC and NBC affiliates. In addition he has written for many publications over the years.

Ashly has always enjoyed studying automotive technology and its relative value to the individual. Presently Ashly co-writes a monthly column for Physician' Money Digest and Dentist Money Digest as well as others in the health care lifestyle area. He co-writes his columns with his Award-winning, auto journalist wife, Jean Swenson.

Ashly continues to be quoted regularly as well as doing numerous national electronic media guest spots. He's presently working on a book to be published during the'07 model year. Ashly lives with his wife and family 417 feet above sea level on Seattle's Queen Anne Hill.

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.

Bob is recognized for his work with new automotive releases for all major manufacturers and models with his reviews for the Greensboro News & Record daily newspaper, and is a main contributor to their Auto Show Publication.

He is the Editor and Publisher of the Vette-N-Vestments Monthly Corvette Market Letter now in it's 26th year of production. He is recognized across the country for his knowledge and expertise in the aftermarket Corvette arena and has amassed an extensive data base on Corvette resale prices. Bob also has a monthly column "sold, Sold, SOLD!" in Corvette Enthusiast Magazine. In addition, his articles are featured in Old Cars Weekly, Cars and Parts Magazine, Magazine Corvette as well as the Corvette Quarterly Magazine.

Jim Meachen
Goldsboro, North Carolina
Jim Meachen is a retired editor of the Goldsboro News-Argus in Goldsboro, N.C. He has been covering the auto industry and reviewing new vehicles for more than 18 years. Although retired, he continues to write a weekly review for the Goldsboro News Argus, the Los Angeles Daily News and a half dozen other newspapers in southern California. His reviews also appear on several Web sites including car-data.com and motorway.com.

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 won several writing awards during his long tenure with the News-Argus, first as sports editor and then 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 an auto critic 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
Peoria, Arizona
Chris Poole (60) is Editor-at-Large for Chicago-based Consumer Guide Auto and corporate partner HowStuffWorks.com. Poole joined CG's parent company, Publications International, Ltd. (PIL), in 1979 as its first full-time auto editor. In 1984 he added the title of editor-in-chief for Collectible Automobile, a bimonthly auto-history magazine that's still going strong. Poole moved to Los Angeles in late 1986 to assume the newly created post of PIL West Coast Auto Editor. In 2007 he relocated to the Phoenix area, where he remains a busy staff contributor to the many print and online publishing efforts of Consumer Guide Auto and HowStuffWorks.

Poole's duties encompass feature writing, event reporting, interviewing, new-vehicle testing, and historical writing/research for Collectible Automobile and PIL's long-running series of award-winning hardcover auto books. Among his many book credits are The Great Book of Sports Cars (with Graham Robson and the late Dean Batchelor); five editions of the ground-breaking Encyclopedia of American Cars (with Richard M. Langworth); The Complete Book of Collectible Cars; Mustang: Forty Years of Fun; and Corvette: Sports Car Superstar.

A lifelong car enthusiast, Poole is a member of the Los Angeles-based Motor Press Guild (where he served as secretary and vice-president) and the Phoenix Automotive Press Association (PAPA). He is also honored to have served for the past several years as juror for the North American Concept Vehicle of the Year awards.

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 are a regular feature of The Car Connection and other popular websites and publications. These popular stealth-type photos are in high demand and her client list has included publications such as Car & Driver, Road and Track, AutoWeek, Forbes, Fortune, Business Week and USA Today. Brenda's business has been highlighted in several print publications, including Newsweek, Motor Trend, Sports Car International, and various domestic and international newspapers, and her pictures have appeared in various books - from automotive interests to text books, and even encyclopedias.

Her first "cover shoot" was for the recently published book, Toyota FJ Cruiser, written by Larry Edsall and published by Motorbooks. Ms. Priddy contributed photos to nearly every chapter, and for the first time in many years, didn't have engineers and security personnel blocking her view.

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 several national automotive publications. 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.

When not writing reviews, photographing future cars or promoting AEDs, Brenda relaxes with her family, including her two children, Becca (a Theater Arts major) and Zak (a soon-to-be-famous rock guitarist and robotic engineer). They live in Arizona with a house full of dogs, cats, tortoises and a mother in-law.

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 produced shows on automotive news, new vehicles and classic cars for TNN for 12 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 won five International Automotive Media Awards for excellence in broadcast reporting.

Scoutten continues his long time Car and Driver association as a contributor, providing new vehicle reviews for Car and Driver Radio, heard nation-wide on 125 radio stations and on XM and Sirius Satellite Radio.

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.




Jeff Taylor
Chicago, Illinois
For nearly 20 years he has been professionally involved with automobiles. For the past twelve years he has been an automotive writer for Pioneer Press Newspapers (Chicago, IL). Specifically, those duties entail reviewing new vehicles, covering motorsports, and a little aftermarket news.

In addition to Pioneer Press Newspapers, he has also produced automotive edit for Lerner Newspapers, (Pioneer Press subsidiary in Chicago), contributed to a couple of NASCAR books, produced pieces for Firestone's travel website, Vehicom Publications (custom dealer branded magazines), and was a contributor for Metro Magazine a lifestyle monthly in the Raleigh/Durham area.

Jeff is an active member of the Midwest Automotive Media Association, and a 1988 Journalism graduate of Southern Illinois University.

 

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. In addition to doing weekly auto columns for the San Franscisco Chronicle and the Oakland Tribune as well as 6 other Bay Area papers, Arv also writes a nationally syndicated monthly motorcycle column called "2-Wheeling Today" for the Motor Matters Syndicate.

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.