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Dr. Mark Brinker is a world-renowned orthopedic surgeon with a lifelong passion for helping others and for automobiles. In addition to his medical career specializing in complex fractures, Mark is an automotive enthusiast, collector, vintage racer, historian, and journalist. Mark’s current car collection includes 35 carefully curated postwar sports cars primarily from Italy, the U.S., and Japan. He co-authored Vintage American Road Racing Cars: 1950-1970 which was nominated for the Motor Press Guild’s Dean Bachelor Award. He also co-authored, with Myron Vernis a past Cars Yeah guest, A Quiet Greatness: Japan’s Most Astonishing Automobiles for the Collector and Enthusiast which was awarded a 2023 Motorworld Buchpreis Award. His third book is entitled The Amazing Denzel Sports Car. He’s penned a monthly column for Vintage Racecar, is a masthead contributor for Sports Car Market, and written feature work for Octane magazine and numerous other automotive publications.
SHOW SPONSORS
American Collectors Insurance • Linkage Magazine • Techforce Foundation • RPM Foundation
INSPIRATION
Finding the unique, rare, and forgotten vehicles and bringing them, as well as their stories, back to life.
Mark will bring his 1953 Kurtis Sorrell SR-100 Prototype and his 1952 Fageol Pataray to Pebble Beach this year.
ULTIMATE DRIVE
Driving the Mille Miglia in his1949 Fageol Supersonic with his wife.
SPECIAL VEHICLE
A 1949 Fageol Supersonic
BOOK RECOMMENDATION
A Quiet Greatness by Mark Brinker* and Myron Vernis*
The Amazing Denzel Sports Car by Mark Brinker and James R. Perrin
WORDS OF INSPIRATION
A lot of people limit themselves. Choose not to live your life that way. Failing is a part of success.
If you hear “no because” you should answer that with “yes if”.
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.