{"id":494583,"date":"2015-07-01T00:50:57","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T07:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=11928"},"modified":"2024-01-08T14:03:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T14:03:25","slug":"john-campion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/john-campion\/","title":{"rendered":"John Campion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<p>John Campion is a high energy guy and radiates that energy everywhere he goes. Perhaps it\u2019s because he started his business career providing power for rock shows, but whatever it is, his sense of energy permeates his enthusiasm for his car collection, the centerpieces of which are four rare and powerful Lancia rally cars, each of which dominated rallying in the 1970s and 1980s. John Wright caught up with Campion at the 2015 Amelia Island Concours D\u2019Elegance where his Lancias were a featured attraction.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_521157\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-521157\" style=\"width: 1080px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_6420_rashba_com-copy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-521157\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_6420_rashba_com-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_6420_rashba_com-copy.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_6420_rashba_com-copy-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_6420_rashba_com-copy-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_6420_rashba_com-copy-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_6420_rashba_com-copy-770x578.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_6420_rashba_com-copy-293x220.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-521157\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Campion and friends take his four Lancia rally cars out for a little excercise during the Amelia Island weekend.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>VR:<\/strong> John before we get to the Lancias, let\u2019s spend a few minutes on a highlight of your former life, that is lighting rock concerts for various rock groups. What was one of your toughest and most stressful moments in lighting a concert?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n        .memberful-global-teaser-content p:last-child{\n            -webkit-mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n            mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n        }\n    <\/style>\n<div class='memberful-global-marketing-content'>\n<div class=\"a07online-global-marketing-content-wrapper\">\n<h2 class=\"a07online-global-marketing-title\">No Subscription? 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John Wright caught up with Campion at the 2015 Amelia Island Concours D\u2019Elegance where his Lancias [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":521155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11272,18114],"tags":[18435,16462],"class_list":["post-494583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-members-only","category-people","tag-people","tag-interview"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>John Campion<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Interview with John Campione: CEO APR Energy, Lancia rally car collector\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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