SCM Contributors

B. Mitchell Carlson has been an SCM contributor since 1998. Our resident truck guy, B. Mitchell has been writing about the vintage-truck market for 30 years, including for Vintage Truck Magazine, This Old Truck magazine, Hagerty and Old Cars Weekly. The first vehicle he ever drove was his father’s 1968 Ford F-100 pickup. Learn more about him here.

Benjamin Shahrabani owns Vintage Car Posters. He’s written for a number of car publications, including Porsche Club of America (PCA), Petrolicious, Panorama, Thrillist, Car Blog, and Rennlist. Learn more about Benjamin here.

Danny Reynolds is a Midwestern Porsche enthusiast whose career in fashion retail has informed his buying and selling of more collector cars than he can count. Learn more about Danny here.

Dean Laumbach specializes in collector-car sales as a licensed dealer in the state of New Jersey. He is a longtime MBCA member who has been contributing to SCM since 2020.

Evan is an automotive freelance writer, and writes many of SCM’s Affordable Classics columns. He’s past Associate Web Editor for Automobile Magazine, and was responsible for writing, editing, and producing content for the GMC Life website.

Ivan Ruiz has been restoring and collecting Italian and British cars for over 40 years. In this time, he has owned close to 100 Maseratis, including examples of most every model. He operates www.thecarnut.com, which offers free downloads of vintage Maserati sales brochures, owner’s manuals and parts manuals. Learn more about Ivan here.

Jeff Lavery is founder of The Common Gear, a platform for automotive enthusiasts and collectors to organize, preserve and showcase their vehicle records. Jeff also writes for Barn Finds and Hot Cars.

Jeff is Editor in Chief at Sports Car Market magazine. He has a diverse background in consumer and enthusiast media, having written for many publications over his 20 years in automotive journalism, including the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal.

Jeff has written for a vast array of automotive publications, including Automobilia Resource, Performance Racing Industry, Eckler’s Chevy Classics, Maximum Drive, and many more. He’s judged at the Forest Grove Concours d’Elegance, and been the announcer for the Portland Historic Races, Rose Cup Races, and theAll British Field Meet. Learn more about Jeff here.

Jim Schrager has written about Porsches for SCM since 1997. He has also contributed to the 356 Registry, Panorama, and Excellence, and wrote two well-received books predicting the rapid rise in values for 356 and early 911 models, as well as co-authoring publisher Martin’s book on collecting Porsche. Learn more about Jim here.

John Boyle is a retired Air Force officer and award-winning television journalist and has been restoring and enjoying an esoteric collection of cars for the past 22 years. He has written for SCM since 2013. Learn more about John here.

John practices law in the Portland, OR, suburb of Lake Oswego, where he focuses on tax and estate planning, business organizations and transactions, and representation of collector-car owners. He is a past president of the Oregon region of the Porsche Club of America and served as the chairman of the PCA’s 2006 parade. An avid racer, he is a regular competitor in the SCCA Spec Racer Ford class. He is also a founding board member and past President of the non-profit Friends of PIR. His collection includes two Porsches, a Ferrari, an Alfa, a Lotus, a BMW daily driver, a John Deere tractor — and one increasingly famous Jaguar E-type. Learn more about John here.

Josh Jacquot is a seasoned automotive journalist with a career spanning more than two decades. His passion for cars has been the driving force behind his career, fueling his love for storytelling and technical work. Josh has held staff positions at Edmunds and Car and Driver, where he performed instrumented testing and wrote everything from technical breakdowns to long-form adventure stories. This hands-on enthusiast’s early fascination with cars evolved into a professional journey that blends his technical knowledge and deep appreciation for engaging driver’s cars. Learn more about Josh here.

Keith Martin has been involved with the collector car hobby for more than 40 years, and is the founder and publisher of this magazine. Keith has also written for the New York Times, Automobile, AutoWeek, Road & Track and other publications, has been an emcee for numerous concours, and had his own show, “What’s My Car Worth,” shown on Velocity. He has received many honors, including the Lee Iacocca Award, the Edward Herrmann Award, was inducted into the Concorso Italiano Hall of Fame, and more. He has served on the board of directors of The LeMay Museum and Oregon Ballet Theater, and was formerly the chair of the board of the Meguiar’s Award. Learn more about Keith here.

Ken Gross is a Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance Chief Class Judge and a founding member of the International Chief Judges’ Advisory Group (ICJAG). He served as Executive Director of the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, and his 15 critically acclaimed auto exhibitions have drawn record crowds at major fine-art museums nationwide. The author of 25 books, and a contributor to 40+ publications, Ken has been writing for SCM for more than three decades. Learn more about Ken here.

Lowell Paddock is a former General Motors executive. Lowell Paddock began his automotive career at Automobile Quarterly, becoming editor-in-chief before forming his own publishing company. He currently serves as the executive director of Sunday in the Park, the Lime Rock Concours. Learn more about Lowell here.

Mark R. Brinker is a Houston-based orthopedic surgeon, car collector and co-author of a multi-volume reference series on collectible Japanese cars, as well as co-authoring The Amazing Denzel Sports Car with James Perrin, co-authoring Vintage American Road Racing Cars 1950-1970 with Harold Pace, and writing Heroes of the Forest: The Complete History of the Pebble Beach Road Race. Learn more about Mark here.

Mike started his career in the automotive industry at Shelby American, designing car components. He’s been Editor in Chief at European Car magazine, is a contributor at Hotcars.com and The Drive, and has been on the testing team at Motor Trend. Learn more about Mike here.

Michael came home from the maternity ward in a custom, Candy Apple Red ’55 Chevy, and it’s been cars, cars, cars, ever since. Eclectic fare, from full classics to current exotics, always filled the family garage. After a stint as the commercial director of an auto racing team, Leven became a professional winemaker, a craft he practices to this day. He regularly drives his MB 280SL, and recently recommissioned a W123 Mercedes for his teenage sons. Learn more about Michael here.

Michelle has been collecting cars for more than 40 years, enjoying a variety of marques as restoration prospects, on the show field and in driving events. She’s also a contributor at Barn Finds. Learn more about Michelle here.

Miles C. Collier is a prominent collector and the founder of the Revs Institute in Naples, FL, which houses a collection of over 100 historical, exceptional automobiles as well as an extensive archive. Learn more about Miles here.

Paul Hardiman has written for a variety of British car magazines since 1983, including Classic and Sports Car. His motorsport career includes racing in the Goodwood Revival and navigating everything from an A35 to a 300SLR. He has been SCM’s English-car specialist since 2007. Learn more about Paul here.

Philip Richter writes the Turtle Garage blog and serves as chairman of the Turtle Invitational in Bedford, NY. Richter has been an SCM contributor since 2016. See Philip on the Collector Car Podcast, SCM’s Buy, Sell, Hold podcast, or on Cars Yeah. Learn more about Philip here.

Pierre is a Mercedes-Benz über-enthusiast. When Pierre is not turning wrenches on vintage Mercedes-Benz cars at his eponymous repair shop, he enjoys driving his own Mercedes classics. These include (but are not limited to) a 1972 280SE 4.5, a 1970 280SL and a 1985 300CD. Pierre also serves as a technical adviser to the Mercedes-Benz club of America. Pierre has a YouTube channel, “Mercedes Classics with Pierre Hedary“, with over 1000 videos. He’s also been featured on Cars Yeah in this video interview. Learn more about Pierre here.

Prescott Kelly is a past National President of the Porsche Club of America, and has been awarded lifetime achievement awards in both PCA and the 356 Registry, where he writes the “MarketWatch” column. He’s been a panelist at several events, including the Philadelphia Concours d’Elegance and the Philadelphia Concours Porsche Discussion at the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum. Learn more about Prescott here.

Reid Trummel is editor and publisher of Healey Marque magazine, the official publication of the Austin-Healey Club of America, and the author of the Austin-Healey Big Healeys: The Essential Buyer’s Guide. He has been an SCM contributor since 2007. Learn more about Reid here.

Robert has pursued parallel career paths for more than 50 years, first as a car designer, then as a writer specializing in design. The first car made to his sketches — a one-off known as the Parkinson Jaguar Special, which is still vintage-racing — was done when he was 15 years old. At 19, he was a General Motors designer, working chiefly on Corvettes, and he had been published in national magazines. From 1958 onward, he has been an independent designer, working for major car manufacturers in Europe and the U.S. and for small-volume specialists. He taught transportation design at the Art Center College of Design, is the editorialist for Italy’s Auto & Design magazine, and has written a popular car design column for Automobile Magazine for 25 years. Learn more about Robert here.

E. Roger Williams is the principal of Roger Wilco Productions and the producer of What’s My Car Worth? starring SCM Publisher Keith Martin. Roger co-founded the Speedvision TV channel. His garage has included a 1963 289 Cobra and a 1966 Shelby GT350 H. Learn more about Roger here.

Rory Jurnecka has been an SCMer since high school. He
spent 14 years at Motor Trend, Motor Trend Classic and Automobile before joining the SCM staff in 2020. Rory was the Classic and Features Editor at Automobile, penning auction reports and market features,
and writing about some of the world’s greatest cars. Born into an enthusiast family, he has attended Monterey Car Week since childhood. After abandoning a business degree to sell classics at a specialty dealership in Monterey, CA, he returned to college to study journalism at Cal State Fullerton. Rory owns a 2002 Mazda MX-5 Miata and a 2010 Porsche Cayman, and he recently acquired a 2017 Ford Fiesta ST.

Steve Ahlgrim cut his Ferrari teeth as general manager and vice president of FAF Motorcars, a former Atlanta-area authorized Ferrari dealer. Today he owns Italycars LLC, a Ferrari appraisal, inspection and consulting service. Steve is an IAC/PFA council member and judges Ferraris at many of the top concours, including Cavallino and the Del Ray Concours. He has been writing for SCM since 2002. Learn more about Steve here.

Thor Thorson is president of Vintage Racing Motors, a Seattle-area collector-car dealer and vintage-racing support operation he founded in 1989. He has been actively involved with racing for over 40 years, dealing with racers from Ferraris to Sprites, but is mostly seen driving Elva sports racers. He has been writing the race-car profiles for SCM since 2003. Learn more about Thor here.

Toby Ross first contributed to SCM in September 2011. His company, Ross Classic, has specialized in the sale of French and Italian exotica for over 30 years. He spends his time between France and the island of Malta. Learn more about Toby here.