2021
Richard Lentinello
2020
Peter Mullin
2019
Nicola Bulgari
2018
Jeff Godshall
Doug Nye
2017
Robert R. Ebert
2016
Susan S. Davis
2015
Jack C. Miller (deceased 2020) acceptance video with Jack Miller
2014
James Douglas Muir “Jay” Leno
2013
Frederick A. Simeone
2012
Joseph S. Freeman
2011
Kit Foster
2010
Miles C. Collier
2009
G. Marshall Naul (deceased 2015)
2008
Thomas H. Brownell (deceased 2009)
2007
Malcolm Jeal (deceased 2016)
2006
Bobbie’dine Rodda (deceased 2017)
2005
Leroy D. Cole
2004
Maurice D. Hendry
2003
Z. Taylor Vinson (deceased 2009)
2002
Richard M. Langworth
Karl E. Ludvigsen
2001
John Martin Smith (deceased 2012)
2000
Paul Berliet (deceased 2012)
Thomas E. Warth
1999
David W. Brownell (deceased 2021)
1998
Michael Worthington-Williams MBE (deceased 2021)
1997
Lord Montagu of Beaulieu (deceased 2015)
1996
L. Scott Bailey (deceased 2012)
1995
Chester L. Krause (deceased 2016)
1994
Walter O. MacIlvain (deceased 1998)
1993
Frederick D. Roe (deceased 2009)
1992
John A. Conde (deceased 2008)
1991
David L. Lewis
1990
Michael Lamm
1989
Ralph Dunwoodie (deceased 2003)
1988
Keith Marvin (deceased 2009)
1987
Peter Helck (deceased 1988)
1986
Beverly Rae Kimes (deceased 2008)
1985
Richard and Grace Brigham (Richard deceased July 1995, Grace 2009)
1984
Charles L. Betts, Jr. (deceased 1997)
1983
Henry Austin Clark, Jr. (deceased 1991)
Honorary Memberships
Prior to the Friends of Automotive History Award, these individuals were recognized with Honorary Memberships:
George Risley of the Detroit Public Library
Jerry Gebby of the Detroit Public Library
Duesenberg historian Raymond Wolfe
Automotive artist Peter Helck
Walter Spencer Huffman, who saved the personal papers of Elwood Haynes
Mary Cattie of the Automotive History Collection at the Free Library of Philadelphia
Strother MacMinn of the Art Center College of Design
William Harrah of the Harrah Museum
Roy Chapin, Jr. of American Motors
John R. Bond of Road & Track
Owen Bombard of the Ford Motor Company