MEET THE TEAM
Guy Trigaux
Co - Owner
Guy holds a degree in production and distribution of electrical power. Thirty-six candidates began this cycle, eleven succeeded to get the diploma. Guy was the first of those eleven candidates and the only one with the top of the class distinction. He also holds a degree in thermodynamic and thermal engines: gas engines, diesel engines, turbines, and jet engines. At the end of the cycle, he wrote an essay covering the treatment of supercharged engines. He had to defend this essay in front of the Jury.
He spent fourteen years in Africa, twelve for a Railway Company. Just before turning thirty years old, he was chosen as head of the diesel - electric and diesel - hydraulic locomotives main workshop. When he left the Railway Company due to political unrest (1976), he got the distinction of "Agent d'Elite" from the Company.
In Belgium, aside of the Chrysler-Jeep Dealership and later the Ferrari Dealership, a branch of his business was tuning two De Tomaso Panteras for the BeNeLux Championship; many podiums rewarded his efforts and in 1979 Guy won the FIA Group Four driving his own Light Weight Pantera.
Following this success, customers came to ask him to prepare BMWs for the European Touring Championship (1982 and 1983). They earned their first podium at the first race (Sicily) followed by many others.
Right after the last lap of the last 1983 race, a Director of Volvo Belgium met him in the racetrack paddocks and asked if he wanted to prepare two Volvo 240 Turbos for the 1984 European Touring Championship. After a (not too easy) meeting in Göteborg, Sweden, he accepted this serious challenge. The reward came in February 1985 in Wellington, New Zealand, when one of the two Volvos won the four-hour race, beating all the BMWs and Rovers Vitesse of New Zealand despite arriving on the scene after the last Saturday qualification due to an Airline problem, and starting from the last line on the starting grid.
In 2003, he decided to retire and moved with his wife to South Carolina in May 2004, finally enjoying a quiet life, his GT cars, his aerobatic airplane for four years until... His son Gregory joined him in SC, and they started a new GTM - GTM and SON - during the 2008 depression year. It was a success right from the start!
Terrance Hightower
Terrance is a graduate of James F. Byrnes High School and attended Greenville Technical College where he studied drafting and computer aided design. He worked for Ware's Auto and Truck Parts in Simpsonville for ten years before joining GTM in 2014. He enjoys working on the difficult tasks and details of making a car what it should be... enjoyed art.
In his free time, Terrance enjoys spending time with his wife and their little girls.
Kurt Lang
Born and raised in northern Illinois, Kurt always had a passion for cars and architecture. In high school, his main studies were drafting and design, as well as automotive. After graduating in 2002, Kurt attended Universal Technical Institute for automotive technology, graduating in 2004. He worked in regular service for many years before leaving to follow his dreams in restoration, which led him to a position with Rolls Royce, restoring for four years.
Kurt and his family then moved to South Carolina in 2018, where he became a lead tech at a service shop, until he landed at GTM in 2020. In his free time, Kurt enjoys spending time with his wife and daughter, improving on his home, and building models with his daughter.
At GTM we have 80+ combined years in automotive restoration, and the servicing and repair of classic, exotic, sports and race cars.
Gregory Trigaux
Co - Owner
From an early age Gregory was immersed into the world of motorsport via the family business in Belgium. Following in his father’s footsteps he graduated St. Luc’s College in Mons, Belgium, with a degree in Electro Mechanics and Automotive Technology in 2001.
Gregory embarked on his own career shortly before graduation, when offered a position as a mechanic at one of the oldest certified Ferrari service centers, in Bologna, Italy. Within a few months this led to the opportunity to also travel and work as part of the Ferrari Challenge Italia, for a three-year period. In 2003, he came back to Belgium to work for the family business, while also spending two seasons from 2004-2005 working as a mechanic for the Speed Racing team in Formula Renault 1.6.
In 2006, Gregory joined the D’leteren Gallery in Brussels as a lead mechanic. He remained there until leaving Europe to move to the United States in 2008, where he now runs GTM & SON with his father.
Aside from the time Gregory has spent restoring, repairing, and maintaining high-performance vehicles, he also has experience on the racetrack. He started Kart racing at 9 years old, his preference was endurance in which he achieved multiple podiums, he also became an instructor at age 17. In his 20’s he participated in classic endurance racing, and later he occasionally worked as an instructor for World Class Driving and Mercedes of Buckhead.
Mary Trigaux
Mary joined GTM and Son in April 2021, after resigning from a corporate controller position to work alongside Gregory at his family business. She manages the accounting, HR, and general office responsibilities, and brought with her a strong background in accounting and business management. She holds a BA in accounting, having graduated magna cum laude.
She also owned her own successful small business for seven years prior to changing the focus of her career to accounting specifically.
Her work as a corporate controller focused heavily on the automotive industry, as well as commercial automotive insurance, giving her the professional experience needed to fit in perfectly at GTM and SON. Mary also enjoys working on, modifying, and driving her cars as a hobby - especially at the track.
Zachary Scoggin
Zachary is a graduate of Greenville Technical College where he studied welding and architecture. He has had a lifelong passion for cars, providing 15 years of experience before joining GTM in 2016. In addition to an interest in cars, Zachary also has experience in architectural and vehicle glass work and owned his own business doing handy-man services as well as general contracting.
At GTM he especially enjoys fabrication and assembly, striving for vehicles to be beautiful on the inside and outside as functional moving art. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his wife, son, and animals, and enjoys playing video games.
Kevin Guest
Kevin attended Greenville Technical College where he studied automotive technology. He worked at his family’s company, Muscle Cars and Parts, doing restorations during and after college. He then worked at Toyota of Greenville as a tech, which led him to Audi of Greenville as a tech for 4 years before joining GTM and son in 2021.
In his spare time, he enjoys collecting and restoring muscle cars from the 60s and early 70s with his wife and soon to be first child. They also enjoy going on drives and occasionally going drag racing together.
