Built on the Cars That Actually Matter.

Cars were never something Truman discovered. They were just always there. Toy cars at one year old. Model collections through his teens. The kind of kid who knew every make and model before he could drive one. But what really crystallized it was his dad's 2009 Ferrari 599 GTB. Weekend drives, lunch runs, trips to the office, that car was woven into his childhood in a way that never left him. He's still obsessed with it. Then came Cars and Coffee Dallas at BMW Classic in Plano. Driving in for the first time in the 599 and seeing the cars he'd watched on YouTube, chased in video games, and had models of in his bedroom, all of them right there in the flesh (metal technically), changed something. By the time he was old enough to explain why he loved it, the love was already fully formed.

What's easy to miss about Truman is that the cars came alongside something else: an instinct for building. After watching a Shark Tank episode with his family, he came up with an idea that changed the perspective of his life. At 12-years-old, he launched Truman Factory, a candy brand anchored by the Truman Bar. Over the next eight years, he grew it to more than 200 retail locations nationwide - HEB, Micro Center, Scheels, and eventually his own campus at SMU. In-store demo tables on the weekends, podcast and TV appearances, speaking engagements. He ran a real business through high school and into college, which taught him things about operations, brand, and relationships that no classroom replicates.

By 2023, both threads were pulling hard. That year, Truman co-founded Corsa De Villa, a private invitation-only car event series in Highland Park. Nine events. Five hundred-plus rare and exotic vehicles. Two thousand attendees who came not because they were told to, but because the room felt right. Town and Country covered it. The philosophy was simple, and it stuck: passion over status. If you're there for the wrong reasons, you feel it immediately. The collectors who came understood that.

In 2025, the natural next step was HCC Specialty Cars. The connection had been there for years. HCC was a regular presence at Corsa De Villa, always bringing standout cars to the events. When they approached Truman with an opportunity for a summer internship, it was an easy yes. He came in on the marketing and media side and stepped his way into Sales, Marketing and Operations. Day to day that means acquisitions, Bring a Trailer auctions, content creation, market research, client relations, and more, operating inside a world where the cars are serious and the people who own them expect the same from the people who represent them.

Collectors Firm grew out of all of it. The relationships built at Corsa De Villa, the market fluency from HCC, the operational discipline from a decade of running his own business. CF is private automotive advisory and collection management, built for collectors who care deeply about what they own and want someone genuinely in their corner. Someone who is on their side and not biased by monetary value, but by the passion of cars.

Today, Truman is 21, a senior at SMU finishing a BA in Markets and Culture with minors in Advertising and Business. He's a Ferrari guy at heart, increasingly drawn to Porsche and Italian cars in general, and his favorite era runs from the 1950s through 2017. His dream car is the Ferrari LaFerrari, his poster car growing up. His next personal buy is a Honda S2000. He's at the beginning of something, and he knows exactly why he started it.