7 Acknowledgements Our Thanks To The Many People Who Contributed To This Book Ken Gross is an award-winning automotive journalist and has contributed to almost every car magazine you’ve ever enjoyed reading. Following a career in advertising and marketing, he was the Executive Director of the Petersen Automotive Museum and has served as Guest Curator for numerous other prestigious museums around the country. Ken has written fifteen automotive books and has been a Chief Class Judge for 25 years at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. He also serves on their Selection Committee. He’s judged numerous other Concours events across the country from Amelia Island to Rodeo Drive. Michael Lamm became a member of the Society of Automotive Historians over 50 years ago. Mike went on to express that: “In my experience, the great accomplishment of the SAH has been to legitimize automotive history—to make it a serious cultural and academic presence. People—and I’m talking now about everyone from scholars to tinkerers—have come to recognize the automobile and the auto industry as valuable expressions of modern history and human understanding. Automotive history, in my view, now enjoys the same cultural value as architectural history and the history of industrial design. Mike along with David Holls’s wrote A Century of Automotive Style (1996), remains perhaps the most comprehensive and detailed account of the history of American automobile design. Raffi Minasian is a freelance designer working with a wide variety of clients. He holds a BFA from University of California at Los Angeles in Product Design and a BS in Transportation Design from ArtCenter College. His experience includes aircraft interior design for The Boeing Corporation, toys for Mattel and McDonald’s, consumer products for Microsoft, Polaris, and Rainbird, and car designs for Toyota, Subaru, The Franklin Mint, and Moal Coachbuilders. Over the past twenty years Raffi has designed more than 300 different model cars, and hundreds of consumer products, toys, and home accessories. Stewart Reed is the Chairman Emeritus of the Transportation Design Department at ArtCenter, where he overseed the undergraduate and graduate programs for over twenty years. A 1969 graduate of ArtCenter, Reed has had a distinguished 35-year career in transportation design. Reed has designed and developed more than 30 concept vehicles throughout his career. In 1994, he established Stewart Reed Design and became consultant to the manufacturing industry in automotive and consumer products, with clients including Michelin, Icon Aircraft, Herman Miller, Nissan, Hyundai, Ford and Lockheed Martin. Recently, the Mullin Automotive Museum sought him out for coachwork design of a historically significant Bugatti. Dr. Paul Sable is a retried university professor at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. He an automotive historian, author, collector and overall car enthusiast. Paul has been a chief judge at nearly every major Concours in the United States. He collects hybrid cars of the 50’s such as Dual Ghia, Hudson Italia, Nash Healey and Facel Vega. He is a Ghia expert and is currently researching homemade cars of the 1950’s and early 60’s. He is part of the founding group of a relatively new Concours in Hershey Pennsylvania – The Elegance at Hershey. Paul is the Honorary Chief Judge at the prestigious Arizona Concours. i
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