Ron Stricker, is one of the most well-known auctioneers in the country with a very successful family business located in Gardner, Kansas. Stricker was a former pit crew member in NASCAR from 2002-2010 for Penske Racing with drivers Dave Blaney, Brendan Gaughan, Travis Kvapil, and Kurt Busch. He has dedicated a lifetime to his love of motorsports, car collecting, and airplanes. He flies his Cessna Centurion 210 to auctions and to his favorite motorsports events across the country. Ron has some am...
Jul 03, 2025•54 min
Drake Troutman, driver for the Team 22 race team owned by G.R. Smith (known as the equivalent of Hendrick Motorsports in dirt racing), is one of the hottest shoes in dirt racing running over 140 races in the 2025 season including the Real American Beer World of Outlaws Late Model Series and numerous other dirt series around the country. Drake comes off a winner this past weekend landing in victory lane winning the Real American Beer World of Outlaws Late Model Series event at I-55 Speedway in Pe...
Jun 26, 2025•29 min
Alexander Soultanis, is a very well-known concours judge and automotive photographer who recently had the grand privilege of one his prized possessions, a 1944 KDF Wagon, featured on the cover of the legendary “Crankshaft” which relegated into receiving numerous phone calls from Jay Leno (which I had the privilege of just receiving a personally signed copy). Alexander is a Concours Judge and former automotive history radio show host from the New York City area. Most recently he has served as an ...
Jun 12, 2025•50 min
Jordan Missig, from simulator to track, Jordan’s journey has been an interesting one. After making a few guest appearances in the 2024 INDY NXT by Firestone Series, Jordan returned for his first full-time season with ABEL Motorsports in 2025. Jordan won the 2024 Radical Cup North American Series Championship where he earned 9 wins and 16 podiums with Graham Rahal Performance and the Radical Indianapolis team. He also finished third in the Radical World Finals in Abu Dhabi. Jordan has climbed to ...
Jun 06, 2025•40 min
Dan Crocker, known throughout the motorsports scene as “Showman Dan,” is a very famous chef throughout the global motorsports scene. Most people do not know that race teams like NASCAR, IndyCar, and in most of the professional racing circuits around the world have their own team chef that travels to each race with their traveling kitchen on wheels. “Showman” has created some of the most famous recipes and shared his chef skills serving race teams, drivers, the crew, numerous celebrities, governm...
May 29, 2025•55 min
Johnny D., known as “The Motivational Cowboy,” is a nationally recognized speaker, author, and host of the popular OUTSTANDING Life Podcast, where he shares powerful stories and interviews with inspiring guests. For nearly 25 years, Johnny has been a trusted voice for General Motors, interviewing NASCAR drivers, IndyCar drivers, and celebrities at major events across the country. With his signature energy, humor, and authenticity, Johnny D. delivers a compelling message that inspires audiences t...
May 22, 2025•54 min
Rick Blaha, is well known in the tight circles of car collectors. He started drag racing in his teens and is now a landspeed racer. In 2018, Rick got “Salt Fever” after attending a landspeed event at the Bonneville Salt Flats and began landspeed racing acquiring his “A” license on the salt. Rick, was born in Milwaukee, WI, and attended the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Rick was a commercial banker for 26 years before starting a very successful custom packaging company, Pak-Rite, which he so...
May 15, 2025•51 min
Whoever heard of a motorsports lawyer? A graduate of Western University’s Faculty of Law, Mark Boudreau has always been more interested in the business side of motorsports than harboring any interest in racing himself. This interest led to his founding of Motorsport Prospects, a global online resource providing racers of all type access to information to help them go faster on the track and succeed off it. Mark applies the same concept of due diligence used in the legal field to the research he ...
May 08, 2025•43 min
Abigail Froehlich is a 17-year-old SCCA Pro Formula racer from Maryland who owns her own race team known as Passenger Princess Racing, who is preparing to move up the ladder to Formula 1600 and the F4 Series. She doesn’t come from the typical racing lineage or from a wealthy family. Abby has paved her own way coming from a single-parent household and hustling to support her racing career while overcoming some exceptional challenges. Abby, transitioned to CKNA competition Senior Light levels at t...
Apr 24, 2025•19 min
Bob Kerner’s passion for collector cars is evident through his thirteen-year involvement as a Board Member and now Co-Chairman, along with Michael Dorvillier, of the La Jolla Concours d’ Elegance. He is a longstanding member in the Classic Car Club of America. His contributions to the Petersen Automotive Museum and his four appearances on the Cars Yeah podcast underscore his dedication to the automotive hobby. Bob shares a common vision with Michael Dorvillier and the organizing committee to con...
Apr 17, 2025•30 min
Nigel Matthews is the Global Brand Ambassador for Hagerty. He has spent the last 20 years judging at more than 149 Concours events including Pebble Beach, Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este in Italy, and events worldwide in 12 other countries Matthews worked as a Red Seal-licensed automotive technician, repairing and restoring Rolls-Royce and Ferrari vehicles, and from 2002 to 2014 wrote a weekly column for a Canadian newspaper focused on classic cars. In addition, he spent ten years as an adminis...
Apr 10, 2025•34 min
Christopher Peterson has been passionate about cars for as long as he can remember—probably even longer. A La Jolla native, he grew up surrounded by classic and exotic automobiles, dreaming of one day becoming a race car driver. This passion eventually led to a career spanning over 25 years in the collector car world. Straight out of high school, Chris joined Symbolic Motor Car Company, one of the leading dealerships for classic, exotic and competition cars. Over the years, he worked his way up ...
Apr 03, 2025•50 min
Ida Zetterström is a two-time Super Street Bike Champion winning the 2019 and 2020 championship. In addition, she was the 2023 European Champion in FIA Top Fuel Drag Racing while setting the European ET record of 3.77 and the speed record of 321.1mph along with winning all but one race in the 2023 season. Before finding her way to compete in the U.S. in 2024 at the top level of drag racing as an NHRA Top Fuel dragster pilot mastering an 11,000 horsepower dragster at 330+mph in only 1,000 feet, s...
Mar 27, 2025•1 hr 12 min
Angela Savage was in her mother’s womb during the tragic running of the 1973 Indianapolis 500. Her mother watched from the grandstand, in horror, as her husband, racecar driver Swede Savage, crashed in turn four after leading the race. The vicious impact and catastrophic explosion left him with critical injuries that would ultimately claim his life 33 days later. Angel was born just a few weeks after his tragic death. Angela’s tumultuous life, as well as the life of her famous father, is chronic...
Mar 20, 2025•40 min
Nitro Allie, also known as Allie D, is a motorsports enthusiast who started in the world of drag racing and enjoys sharing her love of car culture with those who have never been exposed to it. She shares her story and enthusiasm with others in hopes that they, too, will fall in love with our world of car culture. Like myself, Nitro wants to keep racing alive and thriving. Racing is life! When Nitro is not at the track or recording her inspirational interviews, she is a public servant in the law ...
Mar 06, 2025•35 min
Matt Dibenedetto, or Matt D, as many fans call him, is a long-time veteran of NASCAR, coming onto the scene in 2009. Matt has nearly 250 starts in NASCAR's top series and is currently racing in the NASCAR Xfinity Series for Viking Motorsports, driving the #99 Chevrolet Camaro. A native of Grass Valley, CA, Matt began the journey to a professional racing career at the age of 7 by competing in outlaw kart racing. Matt is a man of great faith, a huge car enthusiast, animal lover of their adopted do...
Feb 27, 2025•46 min
Jackie Heinricher served as a medic in the U.S. Air Force and earned her Masters of Science degree from Tennessee Tech University. After a decade of working in the science and management industry, she launched a successful biotechnology firm from her garage eventually growing the firm into a multimillion-dollar biotechnology company. She has developed visionary and unique intellectual properties and holds several technology patents. Jackie has always had a love for racing and began racing later ...
Feb 20, 2025•38 min
Collete Davis, is one of the most diversified female drivers in the world. At the age of 16, she attended Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University to obtain a mechanical engineering degree. Her combination of behind-the-wheel talent and on-screen personality makes her a stand-out in the automotive and racing industries. She mixes social influence with her barrier-breaking roles in car culture and media. Collete is a diverse and very successful racecar driver in Drift, Track, RallyX, and Monster Truc...
Feb 13, 2025•41 min
Harmon “Boston” Cap is the social media sensation known as “Boston The Be A Man Guy” with over 9 million followers globally, published a very successful book with the fitting title, “Be A Man: The Ultimate Guide,” where he shares funny and insightful stories and pearls of wisdom about what it takes to be a man. “Be a Man” celebrates and pokes fun at the strengths and flaws of men today in an entirely satirical (sometimes controversial) way when he offers timeless advice on how to be a man, inclu...
Feb 06, 2025•30 min
Danny Drinan, is one of the most innovative race car designers and builders in the motorsports industry with a background as a very successful USAC Midget and Sprint Car driver. Danny attempted to make the Indy 500 three times, but had his Indy Car career cut short due to a life-changing crash that nearly took his life. He was a mechanical engineer and lead fabricator for Mario Andretti, part of the Bonneville Salt Flats land speed team, Speed Demon, that set a world record in 2021 of 481+ mph a...
Jan 30, 2025•32 min
Miranda Seymour, celebrated as a biographer, novelist, memoir writer and critic, has been a visiting professor at Nottingham Trent University. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts as well as a Royal Literary Fund Fellow, and the author of the award-winning memoir, In My Father’s House. Her many acclaimed biographies include: A Ring of Conspirators, an innovative study of Henry James and his literary circle; Ottoline Morrell: Life on a Grand Scale; Robert Graves: Life on the Edge; Mary Sh...
Jan 23, 2025•50 min
If you missed the first half of our talk with Kat you will find it here on the website or any mobile podcast app. Kat DeLorean is a proud mother of 3, a wife, a mentor, and the daughter of automotive magnate, John Z DeLorean. January 6th, 2025 marked his 100th birthday. Kat has an extensive background in cybersecurity (Purple Hat level which is considered the highest level in cybersecurity), in leadership, and mentorship roles for international corporations and major financial institutions for t...
Jan 16, 2025•29 min
A Message from Ginger Baker Rust - Today is a very special show for me in many ways. This is my first show as the new owner and driver of Cars Yeah and I have asked Mark Greene, the Founder of Cars Yeah to co-host with me today. This show will be the first of a two-part series with my good friend and someone who is extremely special to me who has a tremendous story to share that I believe everyone needs to hear. Kat DeLorean is a proud mother of 3, a wife, a mentor, and the daughter of automotiv...
Jan 09, 2025•35 min
Since 1990 Matt Stone is a Freelance Journalist, author, radio and television broadcaster, photographer, former Editor, Motor Trend Classic magazine, international Concours Judge, and automotive event Emcee. His specialties are history, design, interview features, and cars in culture, and he has written, photographed, and published 18 automotive book titles. Matt enjoys just about anything with four wheels, though demonstrates a particular passion for Post WWII sports, performance, and sports ra...
Jan 02, 2025•53 min
Hello Inspiring Automotive Enthusiasts and welcome to Cars Yeah. As the year ends, I would like to take the time to look back at and celebrate the life of those past Cars Yeah guests we lost in 2024. It was Abraham Lincoln who said “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” These inspiring people all lived their lives surrounding themselves with their passions for people and automobiles. All were guests on Cars Yeah and I am honored to say had become m...
Dec 31, 2024•11 min
John Wright is an author and past racer who started driving in 1970 and after a self-described, undistinguished record, and running out of racing funds, switched from racing to writing about the drivers, mechanics, and builders in the sport. Initially, John’s stories of Canadian drivers and cars were published in the Canadian publication ‘Old Autos’ in Bothwell, Ontario followed by the California-based magazine ‘Victory Lane’. From there, other publications published interviews John was doing at...
Dec 26, 2024•35 min
CJ Olivares is the president of MAVTV and a decorated media executive with decades of experience building and operating digital and linear media companies. He joined MAVTV in 2022 and immediately began transforming the network by implementing a strategy focused on diversifying programming, expanding distribution, and launching new digital platforms. He has prioritized bringing more live racing programming from around the world, while also developing new, compelling content designed to bring audi...
Dec 19, 2024•43 min
Danny Sullivan is a legendary race car driver who is best known for his 360-degree spin on lap 120 of the 1985 Indianapolis 500. He was attempting to pass Mario Andretti and after recovering from the spin, he led the last 61 laps to become the 69th winner of the Indy 500 and the moniker “Spin to Win.” Danny is also known for being one of the first “big” personalities in motorsports by using his fame to help promote his sponsors and his likeness through appearances on late-night talk shows, in mo...
Dec 12, 2024•58 min
Ginger Baker Rust comes to you from Mooresville, North Carolina, aka “Race City U.S.A.”. She’s a motorsports sports agent with decades of corporate marketing and experience, accolades, and achievements. Ginger was the Chief Marketing Officer for Ryan Newman, ddriver of the #6 Ford in the Nascar Cup Series. She’s the one behind the scenes who works corporate partnerships, contracts, and the business side of various global motorsports. If you have seen the movie Jerry Maguire, her day-to-day opera...
Dec 05, 2024•46 min
Whit Montross is responsible for running the day-to-day operations for Hagerty Marketplace. He and his team review thousands of submissions each year to ensure they are bringing the best ones to market with fair reserves. They work with sellers to make sure their listings are accurate and highlight their vehicles properly. Whit has been with Hagerty for over 10 years, much of that time was in their service center underwriting insurance and talking with Hagerty members. At Hagerty their goal is t...
Dec 02, 2024•31 min
