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.
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episode 35: Josh Russell Doesn’t Just Play with Cars, He Lives Them
The Gimore Museums Executive Director Josh Russell Doesn’t Just Play with Cars, He Lives Them.
A lifelong “car guy”, Josh Russell may have the most enviable professional of them all. As executive director of one of the most picturesque and immersive automobile museums in the country, The Gilmore Car Museum is North America's largest auto museum with over 400 vehicles on display and over 190,000 square feet of exhibit space. The Museum’s 90-acre Historic Campus features numerous vintage structures including a restored and fully functioning 1941 Silk City Diner, George & Sally’s Blue Moon Diner, a recreated 1930s Shell Station, six onsite Partner Museums, and so much more.
The Museum collection is housed in a recreated factory building from the turn of the century and within a historic campus of several historic buildings, including eight restored 19th century barns, an authentic operating 1940s diner, a recreated 1930s Shell gas station and train depot from the 1890s.
Recreated auto dealerships include a Franklin dealership from around 1918, a Model A Ford dealership from 1928, a 1930s Lincoln and a 1948 Cadillac dealership and nearly three miles of paved roadways, on which antique cars, as well as the Museum’s London Taxi, Checker Cab, Model T, or the London Double Decker bus can often be seen traveling.
From its oldest car on exhibit, an 1899 Locomobile steam car, to brass era, muscle, movies, modern and even pedal cars The Gilmore is a bucket list destination for every automotive enthusiast!
https://www.gilmorecarmuseum.org
https://www.facebook.com/GilmoreCarMuseum
https://www.instagram.com/gilmorecarmuseum/
Personal pages:
https://www.facebook.com/josh.russell.3954
https://www.instagram.com/jr_kicks_it_old_school/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-russell-65b7b514/
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