VR: So, how did you first come to cars? Was it as a kid? MK: I was a car kid, I guess. Before I could recognize anything else and could name anything else, it was cars. So I think a lot of people can tell the same story but I was just fascinated by cars and loved them through and through. VR: You grew up on the East Coast? MK: I grew up in northern New Jersey. I grew up,…

Classic Center in Irvine (pictured) is one of two, the other being in Fellbach, Germany.
Photo: Mercedes-Benz