The designer of the Laforza's, Tom Tjaarda, is also an Honorary Judge at the Concours d'Elegance which occurs the day after the Concorso Intaliano at Pebble Beach, California each year.
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Posted on Thu, Aug. 15, 2002
Who's Who behind the scenes
From management to judges, who's who at the Concours
When you read the list of people involved in the management and judging of the Concours d'Elegance, it reads like a Who's Who of the automotive world.
The judges for this year's event includes automotive designers and executives from the United States, Germany, France and Italy; as well as automotive writers, museum directors and auto enthusiasts of all stripes.
Here are the people responsible for Concours 2002.
Members of the Concours Advisory Board for the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance include: Richard Adatto, Gordon Apker, Chris Bock, Craig Davis, Ed Gilbertson, Winston Goodfellow, David Gooding, Ken Gross, Alan McEwan, Bruce Meyer, Don Williams and Peter Hageman.
Executive Committee
- Glenn Mounger, Co-Chairman, Bainbridge Island, Wash. - Mounger first joined the executive committee of the Pebble Beach Concours in 1999, and he stepped into the role of chairman in 2000. He now shares that role with Sandra Kasky.
A classic car collector since 1972, his 1929 Duesenberg convertible sedan won its class at the 1993 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, and he is recognized as an authority on the Duesenberg automobile. Mr. Mounger is a past regional director of the CCCA, and he actively participates in CCCA tours and other motor events throughout the country. He previously owned Pacific Trail Sportswear, and he has served as the chairman and CEO of MAGIC, the world's largest international sportswear trade show.
- Sandra Kasky, Co-Chairman, Carmel Valley - Kasky has been associated for 17 years with the Concours, most recently as executive director, overseeing all operational aspects of the event. In addition, she is editor-in-chief of the Concours magazine. Formerly the Pebble Beach Company's director of special events, she is an avid automobile enthusiast, saying her love affair with the motoring world and its history dates back to her first car, a 1965 Ford Mustang.
- Jules Heumann, Chairman Emeritus, San Francisco - Heumann added the word emeritus to his title in the year 2000 and remains a very active member of the executive committee. Prior to that he was a judge at Pebble Beach for several years as well as an exhibitor, having won Best of Show in 1972. He is known worldwide as an authority on and collector of Hispano-Suizas and was chief designer and co-owner of Metropolitan Furniture Corporation before his retirement. He is president of the Hispano-Suizas Society and was the first president of the Candy Store, a private car club in California.
Chief Judge
- Ed Gilbertson, Chief Judge, San Francisco - Gilbertson brings a lifelong passion for classic automobiles and motorcycles to the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance. His 1950 Ferrari I66MM Touring Barchetta won the Hans Tanner Trophy for outstanding Ferrari at Pebble Beach in 1979. He has served as the chief class judge for the Ferrari Class at Pebble Beach since 1984. He is the chief judge and preservation chairman for the Ferrari Club of America and is chief judge for the Cavallino Ferrari Classic in Palm Beach. He is a graduate engineer and a retired business executive.
Honorary Judges
- Bill Dobson, Chief Honorary Judge, Azusa - A commercial artist specializing in automotive technical illustrations, including the road test cutaway drawings of Road & Track magazine. He is an authority on coachbuilders, both European and American.
- Dr. Ulrich Bez, Newport Pagnell, England - Bez was recently named the new chief executive of Aston Martin Lagonda. His track in the automotive industry spans nearly three decades. While with Porsche, he directed the design, development and introduction of the 911 Turbo, the Carrera RS, the 968 and the 993. He has also been responsible for product design
and development at BMW and Daewoo, and he has served as an independent business adviser to ABB and Ford. Bez has a doctorate in engineering from the University of Stuttgart. He has written more than 40 scientific publications and his research on side impact protection and aluminum structures has received an NHTSA award.
- Wayne K. Cherry, Bloomfield Hills, Mich. - Cherry is the vice president of General Motors Design, only the fifth person to lead the organization in the company's history. Spending most of his career overseas, Cherry was director of design at Vauxhall in England and, later, at Adam Opel AG where he was responsible for the design of all GM passenger cars in Europe. Cherry has headed GM Design since 1992.
- Miles C. Collier, Naples, Florida - Collier is a widely respected connoisseur of automobiles and a knowledgeable student of their history. He personally pieced together what the New York Times has called "the finest sports car collection in America" now housed in The Collier Automotive Museum in Naples, Florida. Collier now pursues his interest in painting. He remains the managing partner of Collier Enterprises, overseeing his family's financial assets, real estate, and agricultural products. He is also an active philanthropist.
- Darrell L. Davis, Southfield, Mich. - A graduate of Youngstown State University, Davis joined Chrysler in 1966. He served in many positions with Chrysler, and is now senior vice president of Global Service and Parts. He is an avid longtime car collector with a total of 14 antique and classic vehicles.
- Jackie Frady, Reno, Nev. - Frady is executive director of the National Automobile Museum (The Harrah Collection) in Reno, which exhibits more than 220 automobiles. Frady is president of the National Association of Automobile Museums and serves on the Advisory Board of America's Packard Museum in Dayton, Ohio. She is active in various museum and professional organizations, and is a past president of the Nevada Museums Association.
Paul Frere
- Paul Frere, Monaco - Frere has been actively involved in all aspects of the automotive industry. He is perhaps best known for his success as a race car driver; he was seventh in the 1956 Drivers World Championship, he drove a Ferrari to victory at Le Mans in 1960 with O. Gendebien, and he continues to drive for Porsche, Aston Martin, Jaguar, and Ferrari in sports cars and Formula 1. Frere has also been an automotive journalist since 1945. He has been the European Editor for Road & Track since 1977.
- T. C. Gale, Rochester, Mich. - Gale is a native of Flint, Mich. He graduated from Michigan State University in 1966 and later received both a master's degree and MBA from MSU. He joined Chrysler in1967, working in various engineering and interior and exterior design positions. He became vice president of design in 1985 and has since served in a series of executive management positions. He was appointed to the board of management of DaimlerChrysler AG, and is also executive vice president for Chrysler product development, design and passenger car operation of DaimlerChrysler Corporation.
- Fabrizio Giugiaro, Turino, Italy - Giugiaro, the son of Giorgetto Giugiaro, chairman of Italdesign, studied architecture at the University of Turin and holds a master's degree in business administration. In 1990, he joined Italdesign, where he has been responsible for the company's styling area since 1996. Giugiaro introduced the concept of a technical approach to styling as a working method at Italdesign.
- Tony Gott, Cheshire, England - Gott has served as Chief Executive of Rolls-Royce & Bentley Motor Cars Limited since January 1999. He first joined the company back in June 1985 as a Senior Design Engineer. He became Director of Engineering in April 1997 and was invited to become a member of the Board later that same year. Prior to joining Rolls-Royce & Bentley Motor Cars, Gott had worked as an engineer at T. I. Limited and Lotus Cars Limited.
- Michael Hay, Southhampton, England - Hay is the author of four books on the vintage Bentley, including "Bentley - the Vintage Years" and "Bentley Factory Cars." Between 1983 and 1990 he built a 3 Litre "bitsa" from the remains of a scrapped car, gaining intimate knowledge of Bentley engineering on the way, and has managed to keep it going for 40,000 miles in the last 11 years.
- Phil Hill, Santa Monica - Hill was the first American world champion in Grand Prix racing in 1961. He won the first Pebble Beach Road Race in 1950, then again in 1953 and 1955. He took Best of Show honors at the Pebble Beach Concours in 1955 and 1977.
- Jyrgen Hubbert, Stuttgart, Germany - Hubbert has had primary responsibility for overseeing the development, production, purchasing and sales of Mercedes-Benz passenger cars (the S-, E-, C-, A- and M-Class) for more than a decade. He was appointed to DaimlerChrysler"s Board of Management in November 1998, having previously served on the Board of Management for Mercedes-Benz and then Daimler-Benz.
- Len Hunt, Oakland Township, Michigan - Hunt is vice president in charge of Audi of America, Inc., with responsibility for all Audi sales, marketing and product planning throughout the United States and Canada. Prior to assuming this responsibility in January 1999, he had been the director of Audi UK since joining the company in 1994.
- Charles Jordan, Warren, Mich. - Jordan is an internationally recognized automobile designer. He started his career at GM Styling as a junior designer in 1949. Forty-three years later, in 1992, he retired as vice president of General Motors in charge of design, following in the footsteps of Harley Earl and Bill Mitchell.
- Beverly Rae Kimes, New York - Life Magazine has referred to Kimes as "the nation's foremost automotive scholar." Her published works have six times won the Cugnot or Benz awards of the Society of Automotive Historians for best book or magazine article of the year, respectively. Former editor of Automobile Quarterly, Kimes has edited the Classic Car Club of America publications since 1981. Whenever possible, she and husband Jim Cox joyfully travel the countryside (30,000 miles so far) in their 1930 Auburn.
- Ricardo Legorreta, Mexico City - Legorreta is the principal of Legorreta Arquitectos in Mexico and founder and president of Legorreta Arquitectos USA in Los Angeles. He has lectured at many universities in both Europe and America, and has served as professor at Harvard, UCLA, University of Texas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México and Universidad Iberoamericana. He is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the Gold Medal Year 2000 of the American Institute of Architects and the UIA Gold Medal awarded in Beijing China, 1999.
- Robert Lutz, Ann Arbor, Michigan - Robert A. Lutz has been chairman and chief executive officer of Exide Technologies since a few months after he retired as Chrysler Corporation vice president in 1998. He had previously been president and chief operating officer responsible for Chrysler car and truck operations worldwide. He initially joined Chrysler in June1986 as executive vice president of Chrysler Motors Corporation. Lutz also served on the Boards of BMW, Ford and Chrysler.
- J Mays, Bloomfield Hills, Mich. - Mays is vice president of design for Ford Motor Company. He led the development of the Ford Thunderbird and Lincoln Blackwood 1999 concept cars. Before joining Ford in 1997, Mays was vice president of design development at SHR Perceptual Management in Scottsdale, Ariz. Earlier, he worked at Audi and Volkswagen in Germany, designing aerodynamic research vehicles and working on full-scale model proposals for the Audi 100, VW Golf, VW Polo, and Audi Cabrio. He was chief designer at the Volkswagen of America Design Center in California and was responsible for the design of the Volkswagen Concept 1, the precursor of the new VW Beetle.
- Denise McCluggage, Santa Fe, N.M. - McCluggage is a pioneering race driver, author and sportswriter. Her competition cars included Ferrari, Porsche, Lotus, Maserati, Osca and Jaguar. Her successes ranged from a Gran Turismo victory at Sebring, a class win in the Monte Carlo Rally to the Ken W. Purdy Award for Automotive Journalism. McCluggage writes for AutoWeek, and edits an Internet magazine called www.roadrunning.com.
- Sir Stirling Moss, London, England - Sir Stirling Moss, 10-time British National Champion, took part in more than 500 races, rallies, hill-climbs, speed records and endurance runs, finishing in 386 and winning 217 of them. Moss is holder of the 1500-cc World Speed record at 240 mph set in Utah and has won 30 GP races.He was knighted in The Queen's New Year's Honours in 2000.
- Jacques A. Nasser, Dearborn, Michigan - Nasser is president and CEO of Ford Motor Company and a member of the board of directors. Prior to January 1, 1999, he was executive vice president at Ford Automotive Operations, and chairman of Ford Europe.
- Dr. Karl-Heinz Neumann, Wolfsburg, Germany - Neumann is executive director of Power Train Development for Volkswagen AG, and president and technical director of Bugatti Automobile S.A.S. Neumann joined Volkswagen as a US Certification Engineer back in 1965.
- Robert E. Petersen, Beverly Hills - Petersen founded Hot Rod Magazine in 1948 and Motor Trend magazine in 1949 plus many other automotive enthusiast magazines and is currently chairman emeritus of Petersen Publishing Company. He and his wife Margie are
the major benefactors for the nonprofit Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles and their collection of automobiles ranges from a rare Rolls-Royce Derby speedster to the modern Lamborghini Diablo.
- Peter Pfeiffer, Germany - Pfeiffer is presently vice president of passenger car and commercial vehicle design at DaimlerChrysler AG. His career started at Ford Werke AG as a designer in 1963. In 1968, he joined Daimler-Benz as a designer, and has held a progression of managerial positions. His responsibilities have included the designs for S-, E-, C-, A-, M-classes and SLR vehicles.
- Christian Philippsen, Monaco - Philippsen is an internationally renowned automobile specialist. He is a consultant and an auctioneer with Christie's. He started his career 30 years ago in assisting Jacques Swaters, the Belgian Ferrari importer, of Ecurie Francorchamps fame. Eleven years ago, he co-founded the Concours Automobiles Classiques & Louis Vuitton in the Parc de Bagatelle in Paris. He is an active participant in historic rallies.
- Sergio Pininfarina, Turin, Italy - Pininfarina is President of the Pininfarina Company, which was founded by his father, Battista "Pinin" Farina. Under his leadership the company has expanded, modernized and continues to grow and prosper today. He was awarded the French Legion of Honor in 1979.
- Antoine Prunet, Paris - Author of several historical books on motoring including, "Ferrari, Sport and Prototypes" (1978), Prunet is founding chief editor of the magazine Automobiles Classiques. He also co-founded the Academie Bellecour, which presents an award each year to the author of the best book on an automobile subject, and the Concours Automobiles Classiques Bagatelle in Paris.
- Piero Rivolta-Barberi, Sarasota, Florida - As president of Iso Rivolta, a Ferrari/Maserati competitor, from 1965 to 1973, Rivolta produced some of its most admired gran turismos, including the Iso Grifo, the Fidia and the Lele. In 1973 he took Iso into Formula One racing, with the Iso-Marlboro team, and developed the mid-engine Varedo.
- Donald L. Runkle, West Bloomfield, Mich. - Runkle is executive vice president of Delphi Automotive Systems, president of Delphi's Dynamics & Propulsion Sector, and member of the Delphi board of directors. Earlier, he was chief engineer at Chevrolet and chief engineer of powertrain and racing at Buick. He has been involved with the development of a variety of GM concept vehicles, and was the chief design engineer for the 1982 Camero. Runkle was instrumental in developing the GM Vehicle Launch Center, which established how GM brings vehicles from concept to production.
- Jack Telnack, Dearborn, Mich. - Telnack was vice president of design for Ford Motor Company from 1987-1997. Recently retired, Telnack was primarily responsible for the popularization of aerodynamic design, first embodied on the 1983 Ford Thunderbird and 1986 Taurus models and subsequently adopted throughout the auto industry. He is also credited with introducing "New Edge" design featured on the European Ford KA as well as the Ford GT90, Lincoln Sentinel and Mercury MCA concept vehicles.
- Tom Tjaarda, Torino, Italy - Tjaarda is one of the postwar era"s most prolific stylists. Starting his career in 1959, he first worked at Ghia and Pininfarina. He then was Ghia's chief designer under DeTomaso, Fiat"s advanced design chief and Rayton Fissore"s design director. Some of his more than 70 creations include the Pantera, Fiat 124 spyder, Ford Fiesta, Ferrari California and the Laforza 4x4. Today he has his own studio and contributed to the new Honda Civic interior and exterior concept just recently shown in the Paris Auto show. He also created prototype studies for Suzuki, Fiat and Bugatti.
- Max-Gerrit von Pein, Stuttgart, Germany - von Pein is responsible within DaimlerChrysler AG for the DaimlerChrysler Classic division. This includes the Mercedes-Benz museum with more than 500,000 visitors annually, the Mercedes-Benz Classic Center where Mercedes-Benz vintage cars are restored and placed, and the company archives, as well as DaimlerChrysler business units such as Deutsche Aerospace (DASA), Debis, and MTU.
- Hartmut Warkus, Wolfsburg, Germany - Warkus has headed up Volkswagen Design, also overseeing Volkswagen's "Design Centre of Excellence" since 1993. Under his leadership, Volkswagen initiated a design study reinterpreting the legendary Beetle shape. The resulting Concept 1, which debuted at the 1994 Detroit Motor Show, was an instant success and eventually led to the development of the series car known as the New Beetle. Warkus began his career in 1964 as a designer at Mercedes-Benz, and later worked for Ford and Audi.
- Andrea Zagato, Milan, Italy - Zagato is the third generation Zagato to head Coachwork Zagato since its founding in 1919. In his time, the firm has built solidly on its reputation for innovative styling that embodies advanced engineering. Under his leadership, the firm has also expanded on its traditional coachbuilding business, and Zagato now provides comprehensive styling, engineering, and prototyping services for not only automobiles, but railway transport systems, heavy equipment, agricultural vehicles, car accessories, fashion and other industries. |
