Editor's Bio

In Southern California, it's tough to straddle the line of professional passion for all things motive. Yet, Ricardo Rodriguez-Long has done so since arriving from Argentina, combining his education (BS in Automotive Science) with his ardor for all forms of mobilized art. Ricardo's career has taken him from broken fingernails to broken records.
Ricardo opened the first automotive fine art gallery in Long Beach (The Automobile in Art) and, together with Emil Leung, was instrumental in creating Route 66 restaurant on that Mother Road in Pasadena.
Ricardo's photojournalism excellence allows him to supply copy and images for newspapers and magazines around the globe in both English and Spanish. His work also appears in Japanese and Italian publications. He is the first Hispanic photographer to be granted a solo show at LAPC in Los Angeles.
To keep his driving and mechanical skills sharp, Ricardo contends successfully in vintage racing throughout the Southwest region, holding competition licenses with three sanctioning bodies. Ricardo has been Test Driving motor vehicles for manufacturers since 1990. From new cars to race cars he has driven over 1000 different cars in the last 10 years.
In 2006 he became the first Hispanic spokesperson for the tire manufacturer Uniroyal Tires, one of the oldest tire manufacturers in the world (1892) and part of the Michelin group.
Ricardo is the first Hispanic to receive the Golden Award for journalism by the Truck Writers Of North America.  This prestigious award is coveted by more than 250 journalists in the Commercial Truck market in Canada, United States and Mexico.

Anne Proffit / Auto Resources