Mike Schultz

Mike Schultz was born in Detroit, Michigan in the year 1960. His father was an engineer for Chrysler Corporation from 1956 to 1979. Mike's mother was a stay at home mother, a very common arrangement in the 1960's. Mike has fond memories of his father bringing home of very odd cars and trucks, including 4 wheel drive trucks, early diesel pickups and even a turbine car.

Beginning the habit of working at a young age, Mike had what was a "typical" work experience. He help many jobs in his youth that included caddying at a local country club, mowing lawns, shoveling snow, and pumping gas. This brought Mike to the age of sixteen, the age in which Mike was picked to be on a Dodge brochure for the 1976 medium duty truck line. Shortly after this Mike got his driver's license as well as his first car, a 1966 Dodge Coronet with a 273ci small block and drum brakes. After driving for a short time, he wanted learn more about cars and repairing them. He went to the local service stations and was hired to do snow tire swaps and later went to fluid checks and general service.

Mike's studying in school led to a career in electronics. He began working in the computer field for large companies doing field repairs and even worked at TRW on the ground support crew for the Hubble Space Telescope project. Continuing to work in the communications field, Mike formed his own company dealing with networking and technical support.  Around this time the .com bubble was beginning to burst, so Mike went looking for a new endeavor in which to have fun and make a little money. After attending a SEMA show in Las Vegas, Mike knew classic cars would be it.

Mike began working with his father on many projects and started an impressive show record, the first of which was PebbleBeach with his father's 1935 V-12 Packard. Mike and his father have won Palos Verdes Concourse, Newport Beach Concourse, Packard meets, and Cadillac meets with his 1930 V-16.  They are currently restoring a 1931 Chrysler Imperial Custom bodied Victoria for his father.

Mike Schultz currently is an ASE Certified Master Automotive Technician

MSchultz@Iconengineeringinc.com