Over the years I’ve given informal talks to clubs and schools that I enjoyed tremendously but in the last few years this activity has evolved and increased in depth to a more professional level. This has happened for two reasons: First, Gayle has been going thru all of our BRE materials; organizing and archiving them. This collection has provided us a wealth of visual material that wasn’t readily available to me before. Second, Gayle is a presentation master. During one period of her time at Microsoft, she was in charge of keynote presentations for Microsoft executives and she’s applied these skills to my talks which have improved them considerably. For BRE, and our clients, she’s been able to scan our archive images and create professional presentations that have allowed me to convey some really interesting pieces of history of which few have been aware. Some of my more recent presentations have included:
• The History of Automotive Design, America and Europe
• The History of BRE Datsuns and the Rise of Japanese Racing in America
• The History of the Shelby American Daytona Cobra Coupes
• Origins of the 1963 Split Window Corvette Sting Ray