Steve & Carol Memishian
Stephen (Steve) Memishian is a former mechanical engineer, management consultant and motion picture executive who eventually found his way to Wall Street. He co-founded DSM Capital Partners in New York in 2000, and retired from the firm in 2020. Steve sketched deuce coupes and roadsters on his high school notebooks but doesn’t remember seeing any in Winchester Massachusetts in the 1950’s and ‘60’s. When he finally got into hot rodding much later in life (and boy, did he get into it!), he was shocked to find that no one had recorded the histories of hot rodding’s amazing pioneers on film or videotape. That immediately led to Steve, his wife Carol, and his brother Jack committing to start up and support the American Hot Rod Foundation. Eventually, the AHRF crew recorded on videotape over 130 Pioneers of hot rodding active before WWII.
Carol Memishian, Steve’s wife, is a retired interior designer whose hobby is historic collectibles. As a collector, Carol is fascinated by the history of hot rodding in America which was largely ignored by historians. She believes that recording the Pioneers’ stories and properly archiving their photos and memorabilia is of the highest priority.
Jack Memishian
John (Jack) Memishian retired recently as a senior analog circuitry designer at Analog Devices in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The minuscule accelerometers that he and his design team have created assist almost everyone – they are in most automobile airbags, many toys, many hand-held devices, as well as an exploding world of industrial sensors. To this day, Steve doesn’t understand how Jack does what he does, but he grew up wrenching on cars with him, and knows that was the start! Jack clearly appreciates the mechanical ingenuity of the early hot rodders, and he believes their uniquely American story must be preserved and told to future generations.
