Classic Auto Mall Show #183 - McPherson College 4 Year Auto Restoration Degree with Director Brian Martin | Plus Keith Martin from Sports Car Market Magazine

CAM Show #183 airdate 03-05-25 Stewart welcomes Brian Martin, Senior Director of Automotive Restoration at McPherson College discussing what the program is, how they grew it to a four year degree program, and what the future holds for students and the program.   Plus, our inaugural Sports Car Market segment with publisher Keith Martin (no relation) bringing his blog to life talking about the "best buy of the week" and insight on a very good Porsche buy currently in the market. www.SportsCarMarket.com @Mac_College @Porsche @Mercedes 

If you're interested in automotive restoration, welding, metal fabrication, painting and how to start a career in auto body and auto restoration, you need to listen to this interview with Brian McPherson, the Senior Director of Auto Restoration at McPherson College, the only school that offers a Four Year Degree in Automotive Restoration in the country. This is also the debut of a new segment with Keith Martin, the Editor and Publisher of Sport Car Market Magazine (SCM), the Insider's Guide to Collecting, Investing, Values and Trends in the collector car market.

Host Stewart Howden talks to Brian Martin of McPherson College about their automotive programs, growing and expanding the school and how they grew their restoration program from a two year degree to the only four year degree in the country for car restoration. They talk about the cars they work on during class, the skills they learn and how the program works.

The students at McPerson College even built an amazing 1953 Mercedes-Benz 300S Cabriolet that placed 2nd in Class at the 72nd Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance in 2023, an incredible achievement considering the were competing against the best builders and most amazing cars in the world.

They talk about students not knowing how to drive a manual transmission because nobody they know has ever owned one. They discuss the importance of simple skills like jumpstarting a car or even how to strap down a car on a trailer. They show us a 1972 Ferrari 365 that was recently gifted to the school. They mention the large list of backers and supports of McPherson.

Keith Martin, Founder, Editor and Publisher of 'Sports Car Market' Magazine joins the show for the first time for a new reoccurring segment based on his weekly blog you can read on their website or have delivered to your email each week.

In this first installment we are introduced to Keith and his amazing magazine that is jam packed with information on the collector car market. It's like a flashback to a time when magazines were king and offered the best information you could find.

The first segment focuses on 'Keith's Best Buy Last Week' where he shows us the car he thinks would have made the best purchase in the previous

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Recorded in our Showcase Studio just inside the entrance of the Classic Auto Mall in Morgantown, PA, Host Stewart Howden, Classic Auto Mall President and Classic Car Specialist Steve Saffier talk about this unique and amazing place often with amazing guests.

YES...Classic Auto Mall is a REAL former shopping mall that covers almost EIGHT football fields with an average of nearly ONE THOUSAND classic vehicles under one, climate controlled roof and they're all FOR SALE!

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