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= Ed Bolian =

Ed Bolian (born 1985) is the founder of the VINwiki, a phone app that allows users to post and look up the history of particular cars. He also holds the Cannonball Run record, finishing the New York to Los Angeles drive in 28 hours and 50 minutes.

Early life
Bolian attended North Gwinnet High School in Suwanee,Georgia from 2000 to 2004. During high school he founded Great White Reptiles, a company dedicated to breeding Albino Iguanas. The company had every known Heterozygous of Albino Iguanas, and participated in research projects with the University of Georgia and the National Zoo in Washington,D.C..The company was sold in 2006. He briefly worked as an instructor and mechanic at the Panoz Racing School located at Road Atlanta in Braselton, Georgia. There he worked as a staff member of the driving school and teen driving program, providing driving instructions and vehicle maintenance. From 2004-2008, Bolian attended Georgia Institute of Technology and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Public Policy.

Supercar Rentals, Inc.
Since high school Bolian had the idea to start a luxury and exotic car rental company. During college he searched for financiers using capital gained from selling an Audi S-4 he owned previously. He was able to find a bank to finance a 2004 Lamborghini Gallardo (VIN:ZHWGU11S14LA00564) in Giallo Midas [Yellow] with an estimated $20,000 down payment. After the purchase of the Gallardo, Bolian started Supercar Rentals, Inc.in 2006. Between 2009 and 2010 Bolian sold off the fleet of cars he had attained and shifted the business into a rental referral company in association with other rental companies in the southeast.

During his ownership of Supercar Rentals, Inc, Bolian had an incident were his original Gallardo and a 2005 Ferrari 612 Scaglietti (VIN:ZFFAA54A950140266) got crashed and stolen, respectively. An Atlanta PD officer, a regular at the business, rented both the Gallardo and the 612. Over the next few days the customer continued to renew the rental, but soon stopped contacting Bolian. After several attempts by Bolian to contact the customer to inform him of the lapsed rental, he was not successful. After a day he received a phone call from a woman demanding a BMW and a $15,000 down payment, which her husband, known as "Lucky", supposedly paid to purchase the Ferrari 612. Bolian quickly realized the rental car customer sold his rental Ferrari to the woman and her husband by posing as an employee of the business. Using a GPS tracker in the Gallardo, Bolian was able to locate the vehicle in a parking lot in Atlanta with the front bumper hanging off. After a few days Bolian received a phone call from "Lucky", attempting to extort $5000 in exchange for the stolen Ferrari 612. Bolian was able to retrieve the Ferarri after leading "Lucky" to believe a personal check for $5000 would be valid and then blocking the payment through his bank.

Lamborghini Atlanta
From 2009 to 2015 Bolian was the Sales Director at Lamborghini Atlanta, an authorized dealer for Lamborghini.

In 2011 while the Director of Sales, Bolian had a tow truck drop off a 2004 Lamborghini Gallardo (VIN:ZHWGU11S64LA00608) in Blue Caelum with balled tires and an oil leakage. After assessing the condition and the necessary repairs needed to be made to the Gallardo, Bolian attempted to contact the customer to no avail. A few days later a man came into the dealership looking for the blue Gallardo, stating that the car is his girlfriend's daughters car, and informing him that she was in jail and would be out soon to come and pay for the services. After several days, the owner, an alleged prostitute known as Kimi came to the dealership to pay for the services. Due to the cost of services and the value of the car, Bolian negotiated the trade in of the vehicle at $30,000. The owner, Kimi, failed to provide the second key and after a few months she contacted Bolian in order to return the key. She demanded $100 for it, constituting extortion, but Bolian reluctantly agreed. Kimi returned to the dealership on her birthday in what Bolian describes as a, "Basketball net", scaring a woman and her child upon entering. After the exchange of the key and the $100, Bolian asked Kimi if she had "Butt implants", but Kimi corrected him by stating she received a fat transplant, in where fat from other parts of the body are redistributed into the buttocks area.

VINwiki, Inc.
In 2016 Bolian along with Peter Saddington, Dan Huang, and Dave Black started the application and company VINwiki, Inc.. The company provides an application available on iOS and Android that tracks and reports car histories. The application also allows users to self report services and other aspects of their car as well as posting spotting of exotic cars.

On May 30, 2016 VINwiki started a Youtube channel to promote and share car stories featuring Ed Bolian and others. As of August 8, 2019 the channel has 852 thousand subscribers and over 215 million views. Bolian recounts many of his stories from both his rental company and time at Lamborghini Atlanta on the channel.

Personal life
Ed Bolian is married to Megan Bolian and they have a 4 year-old son, Graham. Bolian also currently owns a boa constrictor named Sunny LamBoa. The Bolian family are active members in their local church, Alpharetta First Baptist, and participate in volunteer work.

Cannonball record
In October 2013 Bolian, Dave Black, and Dan Huang broke the previous Cannonball Run record of 31 hours and 4 minutes, setting a time of 28 hours and 50 minutes. Bolian documents the events in his book " FOR THE RECORD: 28:50 A Journey toward self-discovery and the Cannonball Run Record". Bolian and his co-drivers drove a modified Mercedes Benz CL55 AMG from the Red Ball Parking Garage in Manhattan to the Portofino Hotel and Marina in Redondo Beach, California. They covered an averaged 98 mph, and totaled 46 minutes of stop time, including gas fills, driver changes, and topping off oil. The car averaged 100.3 mph on the road allowing them to achieve the record of 2,811 mi's in 28 hours and 50 minutes.