MEET THE JUDGES
Classics and Customs
Reggie Tibbetts has owned and built more than 150 vehicles over the years to include Street Rods, Trucks, Mustangs, Corvettes, Chevelles, Novas and VW’s. Being a tradesman in the early days, Reggie was trained in welding, woodworking, and millwright work, giving him skills to fabricate and use many types of equipment and materials on the cars he built. In the early 70’s he built and showed a Tubular Sand Buggy with his wife Margret, named “Good Vibrations”, winning 89 Best of Shows in 13 years. Reggie stayed heavily involved in building classic and custom cars, judging, or managing over 33 automotive events each year for over 30 years. He is the co-owner of a nationally recognized event, thesupernationals.com in Albuquerque New Mexico celebrating its 25th anniversary. He has officiated for Super Chevy Magazine, the International Show Car Association (ISCA) and the National Rod & Custom Association (NRCA), Hot August Nights, as well as many independent events.
Steve Mank has been working on cars since he was 15 years old, inheriting his love of car building from his father. Steve was involved in building, transporting, showing, etc. all the great TV cars such as General Lee, Knight Rider, A-Team, & Others. Then in 1989, what Steve called his ‘dream job” came along. He was asked to be one of the builders on the team for Hollywood Productions for the “Batman” & “Batman Returns” movie cars. Steve was also a co-host of a great TV show called MuscleCar, owned by RTM Productions, the Power-Block home to many great automotive shows. Steve was also a builder on the “Search & Restore” TV Show with Tim Strange. Steve judged ISCA and Super Chevy shows until the early 2000’s and continues to judge several shows nationwide for many associations today.
Modern, Import, Motorcycles
Dino Martinez will be our judge for the modern, Import, and the motorcycle classes. Dino has a long history of judging custom Car Shows, as well as building his own custom creations. Dino currently works at Nagy Automotive custom auto body shop in Metuchen, New Jersey, and he is a photographer for Navajo magazine, as well as ECS magazine. Dino also spends his time traveling the country attending and documenting custom Car Shows throughout the year. Dino will be bringing a few of his team members that include a shop, fabricator with 25 years of experience (George-Lucky Fab), as well as, Rob Nagy, shop owner with over 30 years in the auto body industry and a former competitor in the DIY Channel Build Off Competition.