Fascinated by anything with wheels from an early age, Colin Comer is the first to admit he’s a full-time car junkie. Moving rapidly through a succession of go-karts and mini-bikes, Colin acquired his first car, an MGB/GT, at 13 years of age. It was a textbook example of a "Fright Pig", and taught young Colin to never buy another car in the dark of night. The MG was restored using tools from his father's woodworking shop. While questionable for automotive applications, Colin persevered, wood screws and J.C. Whitney parts be damned. Colin had the car completed and on the road by age 16, then traded up to an Alfa GTV 1750 (which met its fate shortly thereafter in a collision with a police car). A GTV 2000 was next—a car Colin still owns to this day. The years that followed consisted of restoring, buying, racing and selling whatever interesting cars he could find. Colin estimates he had owned over fifty cars by the age of 20.

A career in the automotive world was inevitable. Working at a variety of car dealerships and restoration shops gave Colin real-world skills and knowledge of all things automotive. During this time, Colin also founded his own business, working out of his garage after hours restoring and selling collector cars. After a few years, the business was (nearly) self-sufficient and became Colin's full-time job. Today, Colin's Classic Automobiles enjoys a loyal following and is regarded as one of the premier classic car dealerships in the nation. While well-versed in collector cars, Colin's passion has always been sports and rare muscle cars (even before it was socially acceptable).

Some say when your passion becomes your profession it is no longer enjoyable. Colin has the opposite opinion. Being immersed in cars all day long has only fueled his high-octane obsession. Colin maintains an eclectic collection that has been called brilliant, masochistic, insane, and incredible (sometimes all at once). Colin's collection of "keepers" includes an Alfa 750 Spider Veloce, a Jaguar XK 120, a S1 E-Type OTS, a FJ-40 Land Cruiser, a gaggle of Pontiac GTOs, a 69.5 "Lift Off" Road Runner, a Ferrari 246 Dino GTS, original 289 and 427 Cobras, and a selection of Shelby Mustangs (not to mention the collection of mini-bikes, go-karts, and motorcycles). Moments not spent maintaining cars may find Colin vintage racing his Group 6 Trans Am car, participating in vintage road rallies, or attending auctions and shows throughout the year.

John is a Portland, Oregon attorney who has practiced primarily in the tax and business area since 1977. One of his first estate planning projects was to create a trust to own a Ferrari Daytona, and he has handled a number of car-related projects since. John is an active SCCA racer in the Spec Racer Ford class, organizes the Sunriver Exotic Car show, served for two years as President of the Oregon Region of the Porsche Club of America, and Chairs PCA’s 2006 Parade that will be held in Portland. He drives a 1980 Porsche 911 Targa every day (except snow days), and also owns a 1959 Porsche 356A Coupe, a 1957 Alfa Giulietta Spider, a 1983 Ferrari 308GTSi, a Lotus Elise that will arrive any month now, and a half-interest in "Lucky", a 1965 Saab 96 made famous by its other owner, SCM Publisher Keith Martin.

Martin Emmison is an English lawyer at the London firm of Goodman Derrick LLP. He specializes in transactions and disputes in the historic car field, handling domestic and international purchases and exchanges of expensive vehicles. Together with issues of title, provenance, import, taxation and registration; he also handles disputes concerning replicas, fakes, restoration and race preparation.

In the 24 months leading up to October 2006, Martin was involved in transactions with three 1950s Maserati 250F GPs, two Ferrari F1s, several Ferrari Daytona and F40 models, three Jaguar C-Types, two D-Types, four AC Cobras, an Aston Martin DBR2 and DB3S, a Porsche 917, 908 and 904/6, a Ford GT40, a Gulf Mirage, a McClaren F1 GT, a Pagani Zonda, and an Alfa Romeo 8C/2300 and 8C/2900, among others.

Martin has owned a 1952 Morgan Plus Four for some 30 years. He bought an XK140 roadster in San Francisco in 1978, drove it across the country, and shipped it back to England. In the 1980s he got hooked on V12 Ferraris, including a 275 GTB and a LWB Spyder California that he had restored from a basket case. Now deeply into AC Cobras, the current love of Martin's motoring life is a 1963 CSX car that he often enters in European long-distance events.

When not writing about cars, he is the Chief Information Officer for an East Coast financial institution.

For 29 years, Tom Glatch has contributed hundreds of texts and photographs to many automotive publications. Interests in architecture and design, history, and engineering combine with talents as both a writer and photographer to produce stories that reveal the heart and soul of an automobile, or the people that create, collect, or race them.

Tom has contributed stories to all of the major Corvette, Mustang, Musclecar, and Mopar magazines. His large-format photographs are frequently in Collectible Automobile magazine, and have been used in a number of books and calendars.

Tom works full-time for a Fortune 500 corporation as a data- and systems-analyst. He met his wife, Kelly, while photographing a 1958 Corvette, and they live with their daughter, Keara, (age 18) and son, Sean, (age 14) in southeastern Wisconsin.

Current vehicles in Dan’s collector stable include a 1949 Chevrolet pickup, a 1964 Pontiac LeMans Convertible, a 1966 Nova, a 1967 427 Corvette Cpe, a 1970 454 Corvette, a 1939 BMW R-12 motorcycle, and a 1971 Triumph 650.

Dan’s field of expertise includes Corvettes and American Muscle cars, along with a smattering of British steeds. Dan says that the best part of being an SCM analyst is "seeing these incredible automobiles, and meeting really great people who have encyclopedic knowledge. Most of those people are willing to share their knowledge and stories with me. Every day is a learning experience."

And what’s the worst part of being an SCM analyst? "Having to kneel down and crawl around looking under 50 or more cars in a weekend, and then having to walk around using those same knees. Also, not being able to own those great cars."