Matt Anderson - Mr. Anderson has a Master of Arts degree in Public/Applied History from Western Michigan University; he currently serves as the John and Horace Dodge Curator of Transportation at The Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan, where he oversees the development, care, and interpretation of the museum’s collection of nearly 300 significant motor vehicles. Matt also oversees the museum’s collection of railroad locomotives and rolling stock, as well as aircraft. Previously, he has served as Archivist & Assistant Director of Collections at the B&O Railroad Museum; was Curator at the Minnesota Historical Society; and was Collections Assistant at the Studebaker National Museum. Matt is a past president of the National Association of Automobile Museums and currently serves on the board of the Society of Automotive Historians.

Madison Auten - Madison Auten is the Collections & Education Manager at the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum, where she gets the best of both worlds—helping care for a world-class collection of automobiles, archives, and artifacts while sharing their stories through exhibitions, tours, and programs. She is a museum professional with a background in anthropology and museum studies and has worked with a variety of collections at institutions including the Milwaukee Public Museum, Field Museum, UWM Union Art Gallery, and the Penn Museum. She also serves on the board of the Association of Indiana Museums.

Tom Cotter - Tom Cotter is a lifelong automotive enthusiast, author, vintage racer, and television host best known as the “Barn Find Hunter.” Born in New York City and raised on Long Island, Cotter developed a passion for cars at an early age, buying his first car — a 1940 Ford Convertible — at just 14 years old. A year later, before he could legally drive, he purchased a 1939 Ford Woody Wagon that he still owns and drives today.

Over the past four decades, Cotter has built a remarkable career across nearly every aspect of the automotive industry, including racing, restoration, journalism, marketing, and public relations. In 1989, he founded the Cotter Group, which grew into the nation’s largest motorsports management agency before being sold in 2000.

Cotter is the author of ten popular “barn find” books, beginning with The Cobra in the Barn, and has written for Road & Track, Vintage Motorsport, and The New York Times. He also hosts the acclaimed video series Barn Find Hunter, traveling across the U.S. and abroad in search of forgotten classic cars. An active vintage racer and marathon runner, Cotter proudly maintains what he calls “a collection of leaky cars.”

Tim Dye - Tim Dye is the former editor of Smoke Signals magazine of the Pontiac-Oakland Club and the author of many articles and publications related to Pontiac cars and their history. He is also Executive Director of the Pontiac-Oakland Museum in Pontiac, Illinois, and Collections Manager at the Pontiac Transportation Museum in Pontiac, Michigan. Tim has been part of the Pontiac hobby for decades, working tirelessly to learn and share as much as possible. As an extreme collector, he has amassed a large library and an equally large and ever growing collection of memorabilia. He is an entertaining, and enlightening speaker that can be seen at many of the major Pontiac events around the country. Tim and his wife Penny have a modest collection of Pontiac related vehicles and their residence rotates between two Pontiacs, Michigan and Illinois.

Bob Elton - Bob Elton is a member, and board member, of the Society of Automotive Historians, and he serves on the SAE Mobility History Committee. He started his career as a coop student at the Hydra-matic division of GM in 1965. He has worked in the automobile industry for 50 years, in engineering and design. He has presented historical and technical papers at the SAE World Congress (now WCX) and has written articles for the Michigan History Magazine and the SAH Automotive History Review.

His technical work has involved almost every facet of automotive engineering, and he has worked for all the Big Three, as well as many suppliers and engineering firms. Retired in 2015, he lives in Ann Arbor, 15.2 miles from the site where the Hydra-matic transmission in his 1970 Eldorado was assembled, with his wife, and spends his time creating his own cars.

Eric Monterastelli - An avid Motorsports Enthusiast, Racer, and Coach. He hosts the wildly successful Break/Fix Podcast (and founder of the Motoring Podcast Network) with over 600+ episodes in its catalog. Break/Fix is all about capturing the living history of people from all over the autosphere. From wrench turners, to artists, authors, racers, designers and everything in between. Their goal is to inspire a new generation of petrol-heads that wonder ”How did they get that job? or Become that person?”

Jon Summers - Jon Summers is the motoring historian. He was a company car thrashing technology sales rep that turned into a fairly inept sports bike rider hailing from California. He collects cars and bikes built with plenty of cheap and fast and not much reliable. On his show, he gets together with various co-hosts to talk about new and old cars driving motorbikes, motor racing, and motoring travel. www.jonsummers.net

John Weiss – John’s passion is historic preservation, he has been the chairman of the Illinois Route 66 Preservation Committee since 1993. He has received the John Steinbeck award for preservation accomplishments. John is the author of the only travel guide of Illinois Route 66, now in its 11th updated edition. He has written additional books covering stories from the road along with information on the Lincoln and Dixie Highways. John has been inducted into the Illinois Route 66 Hall of Fame and received the Ambassador award. Has conducted talks and bus tours of Route 66 for over 30 years. He was among the first to be placed on the Kingman, Arizona Route 66 Walk of Fame. (Honoring those who saved Route 66). John believes that, “What we are enjoying today is the history of yesterday, but what we do today will become the history of tomorrow.”