Keith Martin

Editor and Publisher

Keith Martin has been involved with the collector car hobby for more than thirty years. As a writer, publisher, television commentator and enthusiast, he is constantly on the go, meeting collectors and getting involved in their activities throughout the world.

In addition to being the founder and publisher of the monthly Sports Car Market magazine, Martin's columns on collecting and reviews of exotic cars, including the Ford GT and the Bentley Continental GT, have appeared in the New York Times. He also has regular columns on the collector car market in AutoWeek and Automobile.

His Keith Martin on Collecting series, published by Motorbooks International, includes books on Ferrari, Jaguar, Alfa Romeo and Porsche, with another dozen books planned.

The website for his magazine, www.sportscarmarket.com, contains the world's largest and most informative database of collectible cars, with more than 40,000 cars listed with serial numbers, photos, and descriptive and valuation details.

In an effort to foster connoisseurship in the collector car world, Martin has developed a rating system by which his team has rated over 2,000 collectible cars and assigned them a "Martin Rating" on a 100-point scale. A comprehensive guide to the hobby, containing these ratings and more, the "Martin Price Guide", will be published this spring.

He is a commentator on the Speed Channel, has hosted numerous specials on collector cars, and has been co-host of the live coverage of the Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale auction for the past ten years.

He is the Chairman of the Meguiar's Collector Car Person of the Year Award Committee, becoming only the second chair in the history of the award, the first being Ken Gross. He has also been named to the Board of Trustees of the LeMay Museum and the Hagerty-founded Collectors Foundation.

Martin brings an eclectic background to his passion for cars. His academic background includes the study of Intellectual History at Reed College, in Portland, Oregon, and study as a Dance Major, emphasis Modern Dance, at the Juilliard School in New York City. He founded the first professional ballet company in Oregon, Ballet Oregon, was the director of it for over a decade, was awarded an Oregon Art's Commission Individual Artist's Fellowship for new choreography, and was director of dance for the Portland Opera.

Martin and his 15-year-old daughter, Alexandra, live in Portland, Oregon.