Ezekiel Wheeler has worked all around the auto industry — as a journalist, PR guy, ad agency guy and car designer. Remember the Faraday Future FFZERO01? He helped launch that, for instance. He’s designed SEMA show cars and, when he was 16, he painted cars at a body shop in Arizona, the latter following the suggestion of Chip Foose. He attended Art Center College of Design in Pasadena for a few years and dropped out (who can afford that much tuition?) to pursue a circuitous automotive route for the next couple decades.
“I can do everything, which is sometimes a problem,” the 34-year-old Wheeler joked.
Now he is full-time into his latest venture, Auto Conduct.
The idea with Auto Conduct is to create curated pop-up auto shows with different themes at each one, something unlike your typical Cars ‘N’ Coffee but not quite Pebble Beach. So far there have been 14 of them. The last one was March 23 at Art Center’s new South Campus, a location that offered a display of Art Center benefactor Peter Mullin’s collection, including a Delahaye Type 135 M and the very Voisin C27 Aerosport with which Mullin won Pebble Beach in 2011. Those cars are on semi-permanent display in South Campus main building’s first floor, with the doors open on show day leading directly to the rest of the Auto Conduct festivities.
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