The JP Emerson Show

The JP Emerson Show

Nothing says nostalgia like a classic car and no one tells those stories better than the people who lived them. Each episode we ride shotgun through the backroads of our memories talking road trips, music, humor and what may lie ahead for the hobby. We'll meet new folks from across the country, industry insiders and celebrities with amazing tales to tell and a few secrets too! If you're all about horsepower, chrome, reliving the glory days or creating new automotive memories of your own, join award winning automotive journalist and storyteller JP Emerson as we explore the open road and discover what's just beyond the headlights.

Episodes

March 18, 2024 51 mins

Samantha Zimmermann is a fine artist specializing in realism, with the breadth of her work consisting of automotive and motorsports subjects.


Her love for cars and motorsports began at a young age, with Formula 1 a must on Sunday mornings. Having been raised in a family of NASA and Lockheed Martin engineers and technical drawers, her interest in the technicalities and precise nature of mechanical ingenuity is on full display.

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What were you doing when you were in seventh grade? If you’re Victoria Beaner, you are the PDRA 2023 Sportsman Rookie of the Year as well as the 2023 Top Junior Dragster Runner up who also just recently started racing Legends Cars, enjoys Graphic Design, Marketing & engineering and oh yeah, baking brownies!

 

Connect with Victoria here:

https://www.victoriabeaner.com/

https://www.facebook.com/VRB456X

https://www.instagram.com/v...

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After spending more than 25 years in the seat and in front of the camera you would think Kenny Wallace is ready to slow down, far from it!


Today you can find him traversing the country racing local tracks and bringing his unique views on everything from his hit show “The Kenny Wallace Show” to his always entertaining “Coffee with Kenny” social posts on the web.  


With Kenny Wallace, what you see is what you get.

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Madi Turley is a 17-year-old High School junior who not only wins at the track in her 2012 RT Challenger, but for DH Davies Racing as well where she was named the team’s first-ever developmental driver.

Meet the woman known for her tenacity and courage, “MOPAR MADI”


Connect with Madi:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/madi.turley.33

Instagram: Mopar_madi

Twitter: MadiMopar

YouTube: Mopar Madi

https://dhdavies.racing/

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Josh Hart pulls no punches when it comes to his racing career. He is grateful. He knows that it takes the combined support of his team, his sponsors, his supporters, and most of all, his family.

Learn how back road speeding tickets led to a friendship with one of the sport’s biggest names, the value of family and home, and what he does not want for his children.

 

Connect with Josh here:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JoshHar...

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Isabella Robusto joined the Toyota Racing Development Program in 2022 where she will run a full-time Late Model schedule with Lee Faulk Racing. Before joining TRD, Isabella was the youngest driver ever to be selected as part of the NASCAR Drive for Diversity program at the age of 12, with the program for 5 consecutive years: making her the longest-running ever driver in the program.

Today, following a setback crash, she’s back to o...

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Evan Smith is a content creator, passionate car enthusiast and racer. He is the former editor of Muscle Mustangs & Fast Fords magazine/Mustang-360.com, and founder of REVan Media Inc. specializing in creating compelling, entertaining, and news-worthy print and web articles & video.

When not creating outstanding content, he can be found drag racing, road racing, and serving as a factory test driver for Ford Motor Company on s...

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Stewart Anstead is a professional artist whose work is described with a similar approach to the Eddie Bauer line of outdoor products painting the experiences of the Rugged Individualist. It's sports, it’s recreation and it's the engines that move the world including vintage race cars, vintage motorcycles, baseball football, golf and skiing. 

 

Connect with Stewart here:

WEBSITE: https://stewartanstead.com

Email:  ...

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You would expect a level of interest when your dad is a professional Pro Mod driver, but hockey captured Sienna’s heart first. What may come as a surprise is that a small town in Ontario, Canada named Stratford is about to become home to a history making fun loving seventeen-year-old who enjoys CrossFit, her dogs Cooper and Jax…and of course going fast!

 

Connect with Sienna here:

Sienna Wildgust | Facebook

Sienna Wildgust (@sien...

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Wes Irwin quite literally lives like an outlaw. From his early days watching his dad race to his own career, he has lived life inside the oval and today takes you along on his greatest racing adventure of all.

Across the country on and off the track with the World of Outlaws

 

 

Connect with Wes:

Facebook Wes Irwin

Twitter: @LiveLikeOutlaws

Facebook Living Like Outlaws 

World of Outlaws Store

Facebook World of Out...

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With her eyes set to competing in super comp in another year and a coveted Wally award already occupying space in her trophy case, 15-year-old jr dragster champion and Colorado resident Kiari Hussey tells us when she’s not blasting down the dragstrip you can find her wrenching on several project cars or quite possibly, perfecting her jump shot.

 

Connect with Kiari:

https://www.facebook.com/brauhausracing


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NHRA Top Fuel Dragster pilot Krista Baldwin regularly blasts down the track in speeds in excess of 320 mph but her social skills both on the track, at the track and pretty much every day makes you wonder if she isn’t just having the time of her life.

 

 

Connect with Krista:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kristabaldwinracing

Instagram: kristabaldwinracing

Email: kristabaldwin725@yahoo.com


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Texas native and Sports Reporter, Jacklyn (Harris) Drake, was born with a passion for racing running through her veins. Attending her first racetrack at the young age of 6 weeks old, Jacklyn grew up in a household of racers and spent 13 years behind a steering wheel competing in Go-Karts, Quarter Midgets, Legends, and asphalt Late Models.


Jacklyn's passion for motorsports and showcasing behind-the-scenes stories expanded in...

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Britney Friesen’s hugely popular YouTube channel “Britney Automotive” from its very beginning takes you along as she is the first to say, learns the very basics of automotive skills to the social force she is today empowering others with step by step builds and instructional videos that would challenge any network big dollar production.


From Dynos to fuel injectors, broken parts to mistakes, her unfiltered approach and personal...

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Bob Ashton, is the Managing Member of the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals. The World's Largest All Indoor Car Show devoted to Muscle Cars, Dealer Built Supercars, and Corvettes


The Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals show is the world's largest all indoor specialty event devoted to Original Factory Muscle Cars and the finest Corvettes with an emphasis on the 60's and 70's. Dubbed "The Pebble Beach of Muscle Cars" the show t...

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His work has been seen in Hot Rod magazine and Muscle Car Review as well as The Chicago-based Daily Herald. His career included the television show Motor Week before joining the Cars.com editorial team as a senior video producer.


A 2020 recipient of SEMA’s “35 Under 35” list recognizing rising young stars in the automotive industry and today he currently works for Mecum Auctions as the executive producer and host of the “On the ...

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Wes Buck is the founder and editorial director of drag racing's leading publication, Drag Illustrated. When he’s not shoulder deep in planning the sports next great event such as next year’s much anticipated Superstar Shootout at Bradenton Motorsports Park, you can find him on the mic and in front of the camera on his own wildly popular show, the Wes Buck show and if you are among the fortunate who wisely jumped in early, your awar...

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Joining an already impressive group of guests from the lone star state, 16-year-old Ashlyn Speed talks about her progression from karting to Formula Mazda, finally getting her driver’s license, side hustles and why her dad has always been her number one fan.

 

Connect with Ashley:

Facebook: Ashlyn Speed Racing

Instagram: @ashlynspeed 

Twitter: @AshlynSpeed

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Chris King’s priority is getting from point A to point B in a hurry. A veteran of nearly thirty years of the Chicago Fire Dept, when not screaming down the street as a first responder, he’s blasting down the strip in his nitro powered funny car.

 

Connect with Chris here:

firemanck@yahoo.com

Facebook: @Chris King & @Chris King Racing

Instagram: @funnycar_firemanck

Twitter: @squad1ffck

https://www.facebook.com/1000...

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A third-generation racer from Dryden, Michigan, she attended her first race at just four weeks old. By age five, she was racing Quarter Midgets, and at 12, she had transitioned to full-bodied stock cars in the Champion Racing Association (CRA) Junior Late Model Series.


By 14 she became the youngest female race winner at North Carolina’s famed Hickory Motor Speedway, known as the Birthplace of NASCAR Stars and today at 16, she i...

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