Bill Warner has been around cars his whole life, from worked at the local VW dealership, to Sports Car Graphic magazine and Road & Track magazine. He did the Cannonball Run in 1975 in a Porsche 911, and has raced many cars including a Datsun B210 and a Brabham BT8.
Bill is the founder of the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, and he is on the steering committee of the LeMay-America’s Automobile Museum.
Bill has served as Grand Marshal for the SVRA Sebring SpeedTour, Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, Lake Mirror Classic, and the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix.
Awards
- Enthusiast of the Year from Concours d’Elegance of America
- Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2021 Historic Motoring Awards ceremony
- Nicola Bulgari Award from America’s Automotive Trust
Podcasts
Books
Articles in Sports Car Market
Here are the latest articles from Bill:
Drive It Like You Stole It! – In 2005, I bought a Ford GT in what I consider the heritage colors — Midnight Blue with white stripes. These echo the Guardsman Blue with Wimbledon White stripes livery of the 1964 GT40 that won the Daytona 2000 km Continental. Even after more than 18 years and 20,776 miles, my car is a thrill… Read more
1980 BMW M1 – In 1977, BMW found an unlikely partner in Lamborghini and started to design a mid-engine supercar featuring their strong 3.5-liter, 24-valve, straight-6 engine, which would be primarily used in sports-car racing. In order to homologate the car, 400 road cars had to be built, and an initial tubular chassis design was drawn by Giampaolo Dallara… Read more
2000 Mercedes-Benz E320 Pickup – Sold at $47,300Gooding & Company Geared OnlineAugust 3–7, 2020, Lot 54 Chassis number: WDBJH65J1YB094941SCM Condition for this car: 2 This one-off Mercedes-Benz E320 pickup, commissioned by a Mercedes dealer and built by historically important Mercedes coachbuilding affiliate Binz, was sold through Gooding & Company’s Geared Online auction platform for $47,300. This just eight months after… Read more1953 Muntz Jet – In the annals of automotive history, there have been few hucksters, snake oil salesmen, and promoters as bizarre as Earl “Mad Man” Muntz. Muntz made and lost a fortune in the automobile business, first selling used cars to service men returning from WWII and later as a Kaiser-Frazer dealer in Chicago. After WWII you could… Read more