SCM Contributors

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Contributor	Photo	Biography
Paul Hardiman Senior Auction Analyst - 18 days ago		PAUL HARDIMAN still has the old-car madness well into his forties, reinforced by his claim that he is never happier than when checking out the heat exchangers under a 911. After half a lifetime in a staff job, he now writes for all the leading U.K. classic car magazines, a feat he puts down to “being cheaper, and anonymous.” When he’s not working as SCM’s European correspondent, he lives quietly near Oxford, England, with an old race car, these days most often spotted on the school run. This month he profiles 'The Most Famous Car In The World' - James Bond's Aston Martin DB5.
Jerome Hardy Auction Analyst - 6 months ago		JÉRÔME HARDY is a lifelong gearhead whose best memories have always been linked to cars. At age 17, his first mistress was an Italian in the form of a 1971 Lancia Fulvia, followed by more costly Europeans, represented today by a 1961 Ferrari 250 GTE. His first engine rebuild was the 350-ci small-block in his 1970 Buick Skylark, which he acquired during a seven-year stint in New York City. Now based in Paris, Hardy enjoys the sheer size of his Mercury Grand Marquis Colony Park wagon.
Dave Kinney - - -		David Kinney, ASA is an American Society of Appraisers Accredited Senior Appraiser, currently serving as the Personal Property representative on its Board of Governors. He is the owner of USAppraisal, an automotive appraisal firm located in Great Falls, VA. Dave has been involved in almost every facet of the collector cars world including buying, selling, restoring and owning an amazing variety of automobiles, most of which have yet to increase in value despite his impassioned pleas to others. The publisher of Cars That Matter price guide, Dave also writes for a variety of other automotive magazines, as well as occasionally contributing to the New York Times automobile section. In his spare time, Dave catches up on sleep.
Julius Kruta - - -		JULIUS KRUTA was born in Berlin and studied economics in Frankfurt. In 1994, he started the company EB Club, which specialized in handbuilt Bugatti models. While still at university in 1998, Kruta began working for VW, following its acquisition of the Bugatti brand, as the marque historian and consultant. Having completed a thesis on Bugatti, he began his career as a marketing assistant at Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S. and in 2003 became Bugatti’s Head of Tradition. He has been a regular judge at Pebble Beach for the last seven years and is the author or co-author of several books on the marque, including The Bugatti Type 57S, Bugatti eine Renngeschichte von 1920–1939 and Bugatti: From Milan to Molsheim. Julius lives with his wive and two chilrden in Rheinau.
Chip Lamb Auction Analyst - -		WILLIAM “CHIP” LAMB has been writing to an international audience on the collector car hobby for over ten years. Apart from being the owner of West of Sweden SAAB and supplying new and “previously enjoyed” parts to thousands of vintage SAAB owners worldwide, Chip consults to a number of collector automobile auction companies, writing and editing color descriptions and aiding in PR capacities. Pigeonholed for years as the SAAB guy, Chip's tastes run to the eclectic, owning not only quirky veteran Swedes but a broad selection ranging from pre-war American to modern sports cars. He has been an Auction Analyst for SCM for nearly three years.
Jeff Lane - - -		JEFF LANE grew up in an automotive family in rural southern Michigan. His grandfather owned a Ford dealership in the 1940s, and his father started an automotive manufacturing business with his high school friend in 1958. Lane spent countless hours in the family garage, and by the time he was ten he was helping his dad restore a 1954 MG TF. At age twelve, his father gave him a disassembled TF for Christmas; four years and many hours in the garage later, Lane took his driver’s test behind its wheel. Now director of the Lane Motor Museum in Nashville, Tennessee, he spends his hours searching for unique cars to add to the collection
Robert Malke Auction Analyst and Contributor Porsche 7 days ago		Robert Malke's passion for cars started at about age 4. Growing up as a child in northern California, cars were the “in thing”. Inspired by cool hot rods, cruisers and sports cars he began building car models as a hobby. Robert’s strong interest in foreign cars stems from his time spent living in Europe off and on as a child and teenager. Back in the states Robert’s first car was a beater 1965 Austin Healey 3000 MKIII Phase I. His second car was a 1957 Thunderbird that he painted in traditional California rattle can flat black with American 5 spoke mags, metal flake red steering wheel, no carpet or door panels , 312 cid, headers, 4spd and a 7 que ball for a shift knob. Being a hard worker and thrifty, at 19 he found and bought his first Shelby, a 1969 GT 350 rag top 4spd. The list of motorized gismos goes on from there with numerous Porsches - 356, 911, 928, 930’s, assorted Shelbys - GT350, 500’s, Boss 302, 351, 429’s, Pantera, Torino Cobra 429CJ’s, BMW Isetta, 2002’s, Triumph TR6, Vettes LT1, 427, 454, Hemi GTX, Camaro Z28’s to name a few. He’s owned motorcycles such as Harleys, Can-Ams, KTM, Husky, Maico, Kawasaki, Elsinore and a Honda mini trail 50. His preference for cars are those of driver quality, survivor original cars even in edgy condition because they are only original once. Robert's automotive background is quite extensive. He started his first business at age 26 - a vintage Mustang salvage yard which contained approximately 200 classic Mustangs. He then established additional auto salvage yard businesses, where the big toys were loaders, tractors and trucks and the inventory was both vintage and late model cars and parts. Robert was a licensed independent car dealer and appraiser for over twenty five years. He has been a member of various car organizations: SAAC, PCA, SVRA, HSR, SCCA. He has also been involved with building, restoring and club racing vintage cars both foreign and domestic. Robert currently operates Gulfstream Motorsports and provides rolling stock appraisals, pre-purchase inspections, and diminished value reports. He also produces and hosts a weekly motorsports radio show, Nostalgic Radio and Cars. This is an interesting and informative show featuring interviews with prominent people in the motorsports world along with some cool classic music. Topics cover collector car shows, concours, auctions, vintage and professional motorsports racing events as well as swap meets. Some of the guests have been Carroll Shelby, Roger Penske, Mario Andretti, Dan Gurney, Parnelli Jones, Johnny Rutherford, Sam Posey, Bobby Rahal, Lyn St James, Shirley Muldowney, Don Garlits, Don Prudhomme, "TV Tommy" Ivo, Barry Meguiar, Sam Memmolo, Adam Carolla, Ted Nugent, Dave Despain, Stacie David, Dennis Gage and Dan Woods to name a few.
Tom Mann SCM Sales Executive - 2 years ago		Tom Mann, the son of a harbormaster on the Oregon coast, grew up around 4-wheel-drive pickups. He busted knuckles with his father on a 1978 Ford F-250, and at age 17, restored a 1971 Toyota Land Cruiser FJ40, which he eventually swapped for a 1970 Ford Bronco while serving as an operations specialist in the U.S. Navy. Mann has been in print advertising sales for the better part of a decade, and he loves the chance to mingle with car people of all stripes.
Norm Mort Auction Analyst - -		Norm Mort graduated from the University of Toronto and became a public school teacher, librarian, and art instructor. His interest in cars resulted in the publication of his first article on MGs in 1985. After taking early retirement from teaching, Norm became a full-time freelance automotive journalist living in a small village in eastern Ontario, Canada. Having written about classic, antique, special interest, hot rod, custom and collectible automobiles for over 30 years, he currently freelances for The Toronto Sun Saturday and Sunday AutoNetDrive Sections, and his work appears throughout the Sun Media chain. He specializes in collector cars, new car and product reviews, road tests, and book reviews. He was one of the first columnists for Canada’s Old Autos newspaper, in which he has numerous columns to this day. He became a contributor to Sports Car Market magazine after a chance meeting with Keith Martin at the Detroit International Auto Show in 2004. Norm also owns CIA Car Appraisals, which has been providing insurance evaluations on collectible vehicles for 15 years. He is also a partner and the Chief Editor in a soon-to-be-launched website known as CarReviewCanada. He currently owns a 1949 Allard M-Type drophead coupe, a 1962 Sunbeam Harrington Le Mans, a 1967 Reliant Regal 21E, a 1981 Datsun 280ZX, and a 1985 AMC/Renault Alliance convertible known as “my baby car” by its principle—his wife Sandy. His latest acquisition is a partially-restored 1958 Frisky Sport that was purchased because it was British, a convertible, and so he can brag that he’s a Frisky fellow.
Ray Nierlich - - -		RAY NIERLICH’s addition to anything with a motor started in earnest when his father bought him his first mini bike at age 11. In high school, he worked as an apprentice mechanic at Armando’s Foreign Sport Car in Youngstown, Ohio. He escaped Cleveland in 1978 and moved to California, where he worked as a lead technician at Sun Datsun in Whittier, and later as a Jaguar mechanic at California Coventry in Costa Mesa. He soon moved to Doctor Jaguar and eventually bought the business. Nierlich’s first Jag was an E-type, and his love affair with (mostly British) cars continues to this day. He also tinkers with English motorcycles from time to time. Nierlich sold Doctor Jaguar in 2006 and semi-retired to Salinas, California, where he has a hobby shop to play with his collection of cars and motorcycles. He has done extensive work on most of the smaller English cars and is most familiar with XK Jaguars and E-types

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