Jeff Zwart Film director, author and racer
SOME PEOPLE CRAM SO MUCH INTO their lives that you’d have to conclude they have the power to be in three different places at once. California-born Jeff Zwart is one such time-bender. Over the years he has been a keen racing cyclist, potential veterinarian, magazine and advertising photographer, film maker and director of commercials and movies, rally driver and eight-times Pikes Peak class champion, catcher of up to 200 flights a year, author of motoring books, director at a global media business (Radical Media) and a serial Porsche owner. And yet still he finds space in his manic schedule to strap a canoe to the roof of his Porsche 356, pile his wife and Bernese Mountain Dogs inside, and mosey on out into the serene wilderness of the Rocky Mountains.
That the soft-spoken and convivial American could devote an hour and a half to an evo interview, and then dig out the pictures to illustrate it, is further proof that Zwart’s relationship with the space-time continuum is different from the rest of ours. And his passion for cars in general, not just for the Porsches with which he is most often associated, is of an intensity we might all aspire to, yet seldom achieve. But then, Zwart was born
