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Bob Merlis is the founder of FeralCars.com and its more recent offshoots, Feral Cars on Instagram and Feral Cars on Facebook. Bob has had an ongoing career in the music industry dating back to the late ‘60s but his abiding interest in automobiles and automotive history dates back even further. He is currently a contributing writer at Automobile Magazine where his Collectible Classic features run regularly. He has been a regular contributor to Car and Driver and has also written for the New York Times, New West, Feature and served as Car Culture Editor for LA Style. He contributed automotive chapters to The Catalog of Cool(Warner Books) and its sequel, Too Cool(St Martins). He was the curator for The Petersen Auto Museum’s Cars and Guitars of Rock ‘n’ Roll exhibit in 2001 and, again, for Cars & Guitars of Rock ‘n’ Roll 2 in 2006.
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INSPIRATIONAL QUOTE
This is the best of all possible worlds. – Voltaire
CAREER & LIFE CHALLENGES
In the music business, every single that is release has the potential for failure. When my career at Warner Brothers Records came to an end, I was sort of a lost soul because I never anticipated it would end. I had worked there for 27 consecutive years, 29 total. I was used to working in a corporate environment, but I had to find something else to do. I had to take a step back I bounced back and found a way to continue forward. Before I even left Warner Brothers, I had a plan for what I wanted to do.
FIRST SPECIAL VEHICLE
The first special car to me was my mother’s 1960 Peugeot 403 with 4 speeds on the column.
BEST AUTOMOTIVE ADVICE
Let someone who knows what he’s doing do it.
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