The NextGen Guide to Car Collecting How to Buy, Sell, Live With and Love a Collectible Car

Robert C. Yeager has loved cars ever since his first $250 purchase at 16: a “raked,” baby-blue 1940 Ford coupe with headers. As an adult, he has owned a series of Alfa Romeos and currently enjoys a 1972 Mercedes-Benz 450 SL. Yeager spent his professional life as a writer for such outlets as Readers Digest and Business Week and numerous newspapers including Chicago Tribune and New Orleans Times-Picayune. Yeager has also authored works of fiction and nonfiction for publishers like McGraw-Hill. For the past decade-plus he has covered classic cars for The New York Times. Yeager brings a seasoned collector’s eye to the quickly growing “youngtimer” segment of the car hobby. He lives in California.
 

McKeel Hagerty is a lifelong car lover and the Chief Executive Officer and driving force behind Hagerty, the world’s largest specialty automotive insurance provider. Under his leadership, Hagerty has grown from a local insurance agency operating from his parents’ basement in Traverse City, Michigan, to a global market leader. Hagerty is the leading provider of specialty insurance protecting nearly 2 million classic and enthusiast vehicles. In 2017, McKeel broadened the company’s mission to saving driving and growing the car community for future generations. To support those goals, the company has made a series of strategic partnerships, acquisitions, and expansions including the Hagerty Drivers Club (620,000 members), Hagerty Drivers Club magazine (600,000 circulation), Hagerty YouTube (1.3 million subscribers), DriveShare (peer to peer rentals), the Greenwich Concours d’Elegance, and the industry gold standard for vehicle values, the Hagerty Valuation Tool. His favorite car is his first, which he drives to this day—a 1967 Porsche 911S that he found in pieces in snowbanks behind a barn near his boyhood home and restored with the help of his dad.