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Ryan Noble is a vintage automobile expert and mechanic who tests, evaluates, and builds engines for collector cars and vintage race cars at Phil Reilly & Company in San Francisco, California. Phil Reilly & Company is well known in the vintage racing community as a premier go-to source for your vintage race car needs. Ryan and the talented team of craftsmen work on every kind of vintage race car imaginable. Ryan has been a Conservator for the LeMay Museum in Tacoma Washington and he cared for collector cars in a private collection as well.
SHOW SPONSORS
Christopher Kimball Financial Services
SUCCESS QUOTE
“Yes, I can do that.”
CAREER CHALLENGE
Getting the experience he needed early in his career.
AH-HA MOMENTS
At the beginning of his path toward restoring old cars, he took on a neighbor’s Mustang and spent summers restoring it for free. Upon completion Ryan realized he could do this for a career.
FIRST SPECIAL AUTOMOBILE
A 1947 Flexible Bus
BEST AUTOMOTIVE ADVICE
Don’t try and reinvent the wheel.
GREAT RESOURCES
FAVORITE BOOKS
Shop Craft As Soul Craft by Matthew B. Crawford
Old Tractors And The Men Who Love Them by Robert Welsch
PARTING WORDS OF ADVICE
Hard work and determination will get you a long way.
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