Los Angeles-based feature writer Mike Daly has enjoyed an ongoing love affair with the automobile since the days of his earliest matchbox memories. Now regularly featured in national lifestyle and automotive publications, he strives to bolster the motorcar’s status as a cultural and historical icon worthy of the most pedigreed recognition. In addition to more than 10 years of freelance writing, he has cut his teeth in a variety of posts within the collector car industry, including positions at a leading auction company, a highline brokerage, and an automotive museum. Particularly versed in prewar coachbuilt cars, postwar European sports cars and modern exotics, he conducts test drives, covers new model unveilings and classic car concours d’elegance, and interviews recognized figures in the automotive industry and collector car niche.