Keith Martin - 2013 Presenter

Keith Martin has been involved with the collector car hobby for more than thirty years. As a writer, publisher, television commentator and enthusiast, he is constantly on the go, meeting collectors and getting involved in their activities throughout the world.

His primary interest is exploring the cultural and intellectual underpinnings of collectibility, including examining why a society values some objects and not others, and how values are assigned to these objects. All of his magazines, books, television shows and web-based properties deal primary with the question of market values and how they have changed over the years.

In addition to being the founder and publisher of the monthly Sports Car Market and Corvette Market magazines, Martin's columns on collecting and reviews of exotic cars have appeared in the New York Times, Automobile, AutoWeek, Road & Track and other publications.

His Keith Martin on Collecting series, published by Motorbooks International, includes books on Ferrari, Jaguar, Alfa Romeo, Porsche, Austin-Healey, MG and Triumph, with more on the way. The 2nd edition of his overview of car collecting, Keith Martin's Guide to Car Collecting has just been released, the 1st edition being completely sold out. It is a compendium of information for collectors from entry-level to highly sophisticated.

The website for his magazine, www.sportscarmarket.com, contains the world's largest and most informative database of collectible cars, with more than 75,000 cars listed with serial numbers, photos, descriptive and valuation details.

Last year, Martin and eBay Motors released a proprietary value-tracking tool that will compile and evaluate the sales of all collectible cars on the eBay Motors web site. The Collector Car Price Tracker now contains verified results of nearly 700,000 collector car sales. This is the only real-time, actual-transaction-based price guide in existence.

On television, Martin has most recently hosted the show, "What's My Car Worth", shown on Discovery HD Theater, as well as series featuring the Russo and Steele auctions at Monterey and Scottsdale, for ESPN2 and ESPN Classic.

He is the Chairman of the Meguiar's Collector Car Person of the Year Award Committee, and is on the Board of Trustees of the LeMay Museum and the Hagerty-founded Collectors Foundation.

Martin is an avid if not particularly choosy collector; roosting in his garage currently are a 1965 Alfa Giulia Spider Veloce he's owned for the past 24 years, a 1964 Volvo 544 that is the family daily driver, a 2002 Boxster S pressed into service when his wife demands heated seats, a 1959 Mercedes 219 Ponton that he bought by mistake on eBay one wine-infused evening, and a 1973 Series III Land Rover 88 that offers a truly agricultural perspective on motoring.

Martin brings an eclectic background to his passion for cars. His academic history includes the study of Intellectual History at Reed College, in Portland, Oregon, and study as a Dance Major, emphasis Modern Dance, at the Juilliard School in New York City. He founded the first professional ballet company in Oregon, Ballet Oregon, was the director of it for over a decade, was awarded an Oregon Art's Commission Individual Artist's Fellowship for new choreography, and was director of dance for the Portland Opera.

He lives with his wife Wendie and their children Tyler, Alexandra, Drew, and Bradley in Portland, Oregon.

Donald Osborne - 2013 Presenter

Donald Osborne lives for old cars, especially those of the odd European variety. The principal of Automotive Valuation Services, he appraises and consults on classic and exotic cars across the US and Europe.

A longtime Contributing Editor of Sports Car Market magazine, he regularly attends major automotive events around the world, and his writing on classic cars has also appeared in The New York Times, Hagerty's magazine, Art & Antiques, BusinessWeek Online and Road & Track.

Donald has served as a judge or announcer at events including The Concours d'Elegance of America at Meadow Brook, Fairfield County Concours, Radnor Hunt Concours, Le Belle Macchine d'Italia, Dana Point Concours and others. He is a member of the Vintage Sports Car Club of America as well as many marque clubs including the American Lancia Club, for whose magazine, Lanciana, he serves as Editor.

A former Metropolitan Opera baritone, Donald lives in Palm Springs and divides his time between his offices there and in Farmington, Connecticut. Wherever he is, his singing of 'Happy Birthday' has become legendary.

Ken Gross - 2013 Senior Judge

Formerly Executive Director of the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, Ken consults for the Saratoga Automobile Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY, the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, the Portland (OR) Art Museum, LeMay: America's Car Museum, in Tacoma, WA, the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, the Utah Museum of Fine Arts in Salt Lake City and the Indianapolis Museum of Art. In 2007, he helped curate "Curves of Steel," for the Phoenix (AZ) Art Museum.

Ken was the Guest Curator for "Allure of the Automobile," a nationally-acclaimed exhibit, in the Spring of 2010, at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. He wrote "The Allure of the Automobile" catalog, published by Rizzoli, for that exhibit and developed a revised version of the "Allure of the Automobile" exhibit and catalog for the Portland Art Museum in 2011. He was the Guest Curator for the opening exhibit for LeMay: America's Car Museum in Tacoma, WA, in June 2012.

Ken developed Speed: The Art of the Performance Car, which opened in 2012 at the Utah Museum of Fine Art, Salt Lake City; he is the Guest Curator for "Sensuous Steel: Art-Deco Automobiles" for the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, opening in June, 2013. He's also the Guest Curator for "Porsche By Design: Seducing Speed," for the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, NC, opening in October, 2013, and he is responsible for "Spark: Innovative Automotive Visions," scheduled for April, 2014 at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta.

An automotive journalist for 40 years, Ken contributes to AutoWeek, Playboy, American Car Collector, Hagerty's Magazine, Sports Car Market, Motor Trend Classic, Popular Mechanics, The Rodder's Journal, Street Rodder, Hot Rod Magazine, Hot Rod DeLuxe, Bimmer, msnautos.com and Old Cars Weekly.

His work has appeared in Hemispheres, AARP Magazine, The Robb Report, Road & Track, Special-Interest Autos, Automobile Quarterly, New York Magazine, Diversions, Cavallino, Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car, USA Today, Fortune, Details, Edmunds.com/Inside Line, and Hemmings Muscle Machines.

Awards include the 2009 IAMA Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2009 Lee Iacocca Award, the 2008 Washington Auto Press "Golden Quill Award," the Society of Automotive Historians' "Cugnot Award," and "The James Valentine Memorial Award" for excellence in automotive historical research.

Ken's books include "Hot Rods and Custom Cars: Los Angeles and The Dry Lakes," featuring the long-lost photography of the late Strother MacMinn. He wrote the IAMA award-winning book, "Art of the Hot Rod," as well as "Milestone Hot Rods," "The Illustrated BMW Buyer's Guide," and "Ferrari 250GT SWB." In conjunction with author Tom Cotter and photographer, Michael Alan Ross, Ken has just completed "Rockin' Garages," about famous musicians who are car enthusiasts. He is writing a biography of Howard "Dutch" Darrin, scheduled for 2014, by the SUNY Press.

He has judged at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance for 25 years. Ken also judges at the Amelia Island Concours. He was the Chief Judge at the Rodeo Drive Concours d'Elegance and he has judged at Kirkland Island, Meadow Brook Hall, Keels and Wheels, and the Louis Vuitton Concours d'Elegance in New York City.

Working with WATV Productions in Los Angeles, Ken wrote "Behind The Headlights," an acclaimed 13-episode, SPEED/TV series. He has appeared on ESPN/2 as color commentator for the RM Auctions Show.

Ken has been a jurist for the North American Car of the Year (NACOTY) since the award's inception. He has served for seven years on the Collector's Foundation Board of Directors. He was Chairman of the Meguiar's Award for ten years, honoring the "Person of the Year" in the collector car hobby. And he is a longtime juror for the International Engine of the Year.

He lives in Hamilton, VA with his wife, Trish Serratore, Senior Vice-President of ASE, (The National Institute for Automotive Service Excellence), and their children, Jake, 18, and Kayla, 17. He has two older sons: Chris, 45, is lead singer of the Platinum-award winning rock group, "Spin Doctors," and Jeremy, 43, is a computer systems analyst.

Ken's extensive automotive library numbers over 25,000 pieces. He also collects rare Ford flathead V-8 speed equipment. An ecumenical enthusiast, he's a member of the Classic Car Club of America, the Antique Automobile Club of America, the National Street Rod Association, The Goodguys Hot Rod Association, The Lincoln-Zephyr Owner's Club, The American Bugatti Club, The Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Club, The Early Ford V-8 Owner's Club, The National Woodie Club, The Vincent Owner's Club and the Secrets of Speed Society.

Although he's owned Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Porsches and Morgans, as well as several Ducati and Vincent motorcycles, his present collection is comprised of early Fords: a '32 roadster (chosen in 2007 as one of the Top 75 '32 Fords of all time), a '40 DeLuxe coupe, and '39 Convertible coupe (with an early Chrysler Hemi V-8).