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#178 Corvette Enthusiast, Parts Supplier & Hall of Fame Inductee, Mike Yager!

Corvette Enthusiast Mike Yager bought his first Corvette in 1970 when he was just 20 years old. When he saw there was no Corvette Club in his area, he started one. As the club grew he made the observation that there wasn’t a place where a Corvette fan could purchase Corvette merchandise. To remedy that, he bought whatever he could find that related to Corvette and started making it available at Corvette club events and car shows. When that worked […]
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#177 Military Veterans Gain Traction with Automotive Skills & Careers

Military Vets Struggle for Employment We are a country that is proud of our military heroes regardless of party lines or affiliations.. What about those veterans that are returning from overseas and their prospect of a career to support their families and future and find it to be a struggle? According to many statistics and reporting, this is not always an easy transition for them and arguments that could be made on both sides that would suggest there are serious […]
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#176 Odd & Eclectic Vehicles with Jason Torchinsky

Popular Rides We are all familiar with the major brands of vehicles being displayed on everything from bus billboards to the wildly expensive listings during the Super Bowl. The in your face branding of some of the most popular vehicle brands is at times annoying, yet let’s face it, highly effective. Not So Popular What about the more obscure vehicles that you may not have heard of. Those oddball vehicles over time that did not quite make the list of “must be […]
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#175 Critical Shortage of Auto Technicians and Solutions

Critical Shortage There is a critical shortage of automotive technicians and the U.S. Labor Bureau estimates about 46,000 automotive technicians will be needed by 2026. Today’s cars have more computing power than the system that guided Apollo astronauts to the moon. The Apollo 11 spaceship had 150,000 lines of code. Google’s mobile Android operating system has 12 million and the modern car can have 100 million lines of code. Modern technicians spend as much time in front of a computer […]
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#174 1938 Phantom Corsair! From National Auto Museum to Inaugural Las Vegas Concours!

Ahead of It’s Time Cast as the “Flying Wombat” in the 1938 movie Young in Heart, the 38′ Phantom Corsair was way ahead of it’s time as an incredibly sophisticated rolling work of art and style. Match that spectacular vehicle with 200 other gorgeous time pieces of vehicle variety at the very first Las Vegas Concours d’Elegance bit.ly/LasVegasConcours and you have a recipe for one of the premiere car shows in the country. The Harrah Collection On loan from the […]
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#173 IMSA 1969-1989: How John Bishop Built Worlds Greatest Sports Car Racing Series

IMSA Was Born Fifty years ago, a new sanctioning body emerged at a pivotal moment in motorsports history. Racing was on the upswing and new tracks were being built all across the U.S. Imported cars from Europe and Japan were flooding the market, designers were pushing limits and drivers were looking for an opportunity to race for more than just a trophy. Into this void stepped John Bishop with a fledgling organization called IMSA that offered competitive, professional racing in […]
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