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Raffi Minasian is a designer, professor, and automotive journalist specializing in the dynamic convergence of Design and Culture. He’s a frequent speaker and panelist for automotive themed conferences, a concours d’elegance judge, and vintage sports car enthusiast. Over the past 30 years, Raffi has designed and built several award-winning show cars, hundreds of scale model cars, thousands of automotive accessories, and worked in partnership with a wide range of fabrication studios building custom cars, hot rods, and advising on concours restoration projects. As part of his work in the vintage car industry, Raffi consults on car restorations, performs vintage car inspections for collectors, advises on collection management, and offers assistance to clients buying or selling vintage cars. Raffi recently helped me sell my long-held Porsche Turbo, the one I called my Orange Crush.
SHOW SPONSORS
Covercraft • American Collectors Insurance • Autogeek • Linkage Magazine • Techforce Foundation • RPM Foundation • Zengine
INSPIRATION
Being inspired by the culture and passion that surrounds the automobile and especially older vehicles.
CHALLENGE
Helping people with their collections, either growing them or selling off vehicles can be emotional.
SPECIAL VEHICLE
1953 Giaur Race Car
BOOK RECOMMENDATION
Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isickson
WORDS OF INSPIRATION
Automobiles are invitations for us to enjoy experiences in life.
SHARE THE INSPIRATION
If you enjoyed this show, please go to Apple Podcast and leave me a five-star review. That would help tremendously in getting the word out and help others to be inspired by Cars Yeah. * indicates a past Cars Yeah guest.