Our staff is composed of a wide variety of craftsman, business minds and skilled organizers. We all share one thing in common – a passion for classic, vintage and collectible cars. Jack and Trina Farland, the owners of the shop, will only trust our customer’s valuable assets to the best classic car specialists around. From upholstery to metalwork to paint and assembly, our team is second to none.
JACK FARLAND
Shop Owner
Jack’s family was in the car business since long ago. His father Fo Farland and uncle Temple Buell Jr. owned a Chrysler dealership in Denver, Colorado; Farland-Buell Chrysler Plymouth. Jack started working at the dealership after school and on weekends at age of 12. In addition to Chrysler, Fo and Temple were dealers for Ferrari from 1967-1969 and they collected antique cars. Jack was exposed to rare cars from Europe as well as the muscle cars we all love today. What could be a better education than working on an old Chrysler one day and a Ferrari or Maserati the next.
That tradition is carried on today. Take a tour of the shop and you’ll find quite a mix of unusual cars from all over the world. Jack enjoys the challenge of learning about each car and figuring out how to make it better than new.
DOUG BROWN
Operations Manager
Doug’s passion for cars began very early in his life. His dad owned two Mustang Convertibles by the time Doug was 12. He then talked his Dad into buying a GT-350 one year later. That was in 1980. He has been a Shelby American Automobile Club member since. Doug went to Alfred State College in upstate NY and received his Associates Degree in Automotive Parts & Service Management in 1986. He began in dealership service operations in 1985 – first as a Parts counterman at Potamkin Chrysler in NYC, then as a Service Advisor, finally becoming a Service Manager at Denver Jeep, Phil Long Ford & McDonald VW beginning in 1996. Doug joined the Farland Classic Restoration team in 2007 when we moved into our new building and was here until 2017. After being gone for 7.5 years, Doug has returned to resume his role as our Direction of Operations. In his spare time, Doug enjoys sport bike motorcycling and spirited driving in his Superformance Cobra replica.
Bill Orth
General Sales Manager
Bill was predestined to be in the automobile business. His grandfather owned a livery stable in the late 1800s which his father turned into a Ford dealership in 1919. As a teenager, his dad taught Bill successful sales techniques and by high school, Bill was buying older cars needing work out of the classifieds, fixing them up after school and reselling. The sports car bug bit hard after college and he started finding derelict Ferraris to rehabilitate, while owning an off-road motorcycle dealership and working as a new car salesman and manager for Volvo, BMW and Mercedes. By the late ’80s he was the sales manager of Denver’s Rolls-Royce, Bentley and Alfa Romeo dealership. The Ferrari franchise was added and he became a Ferrari specialist and general sales manager. Personal Ferraris came and went, he became active with the Ferrari Club of America as a track instructor and concours judge at FCA nationals and Cavallino. He is an editor-at-large for Prancing Horse magazine, writing Ferrari-related articles that draw on his 47-year history.
Tom Van Ness
Marketing Director
Tom is a Colorado native who has always had a passion for vintage and collectible cars. After 20 years as a writer and creative director in a wide assortment of advertising agencies, Tom joined the Farland team as Marketing Director. Now, he’s in charge of telling the stories of all the amazing cars that we work on, as well as the ones in our showroom. Tom’s past professional experience working on Audi, Volkswagen and Porsche advertising gives him the experience to help Farland Classic Restoration embrace the digital age with vintage autos and restoration.
Tessa FARLAND
Office Manager
Tessa is exactly the same age as Farland Classic Restoration, both born in 1991. She grew up riding her tricycle around the shop and helping her dad do touch up paint on cars. She worked as an Office Assistant at the shop though her college years. After moving to NYC for a few years, where she worked in Restaurant Management, she moved back to Denver to be a part of the Family Business. Tessa took over as Office Manager in 2019. She loves working side by side with her family in a business that truly means something to all of them.