CarStories

By Petersen Automotive Museum

What's CarStories about?

CarStories is committed to bringing you the best interviews and automotive stories from celebrities, racers, enthusiasts and listeners around the globe with James McKeone.

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CarStories episodes:

03.22.2018
Mike Hallmark
Mike Hallmark is a lifelong car enthusiast. In addition to his role at Hellwig Products, he is a hardcore gearhead. He is devoted to Volkswagen, and as an Englishman, I am proud that he owns a Land Rover. Mike was...
03.01.2018
Donnie Callaway
Donnie Callaway has spent over 30 years restoring collectible cars, most of these hail from Maranello. It all began with him growing up in Los Angeles, living and breathing sports cars before taking a job at Hollywood Sports Cars, and...
02.22.2018
Matt Farah
Matt Farah is a seasoned automotive journalist and watch aficionado. Besides being an incredibly nice guy, he is also one of the most prolific automotive YouTube stars on the planet with his One Take video series and, of course, he...
02.15.2018
Cameron Weiss
Cameron Weiss developed his affinity for timepieces back when he was a young child. In 2010, Cameron attended an apprentice-style program at the Nicholas G. Hayek Watchmaking School in Miami with a Swiss curriculum. The ten years of passion drove...
02.08.2018
Elana Scherr
Elana Scherr has a background in composite fabrication, is incredibly handy with an engine stand, and has a soft spot for Mopar muscle and one off vintage race cars. She was the former Staff Editor at Hot Rod Magazine and...
02.02.2018
Michael Axon
Michael Axon, a CF 200 Member, and originally from Manchester, has a passion for Jaguar. He ended up in California after he created LaZerCAD, a system to measure, draw and 360 photograph buildings. From there it was a hop and...
01.25.2018
Larry Chen
Larry Chen likes to take pretty pictures for Speedhunters, Hoonigan, Hot Rod magazine, Pikes Peak, Formula D, Global Rallycross, King of the Hammers and many, many more. After having his initial interview with Kyle, Larry spent time with James in Ole...
01.18.2018
Derek Hill
Derek Hill has a long history with cars. He is the son of America’s first Formula 1 World Driving Champion, Phil Hill, and he is the current Master of Ceremonies for the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance which he has attended...
01.11.2018
Leslie Kendall
Leslie Kendall is the chief historian at the Petersen Automotive Museum. Born in San Diego, California, Leslie has had an insatiable interest in automobiles and automotive history from a very early age. Leslie joined the team creating the Petersen Automotive...
01.04.2018
Jeff Rodrigues
On this episode of CarStories, we meet Jeff Rodrigues, the Track Operations Manager at The Thermal Club - a private motorsports country club in Palm Desert, California. Jeff’s passion for cars and motorcycles started young and eventually led him to...
12.28.2017
Charles Fleming
Charles Fleming writes about automobiles and motorcycles for the Los Angeles Times’ Business section. He also writes the urban hiking column LA Walks. A former staff writer for Newsweek, Variety and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, he is an author, a teacher,...
12.21.2017
Twanna Rogers
Twanna Rogers and her husband Tim Rogers are the owners of The Thermal Club, a private motorsports country club in Palm Desert, California. They are both Petersen Automotive Museum Checkered Flag 200 members and avid car enthusiasts. In this episode, guest...
12.14.2017
Bruce Meyer
Bruce Meyer is the founding chairman of the Petersen Automotive Museum and is still a very active board member. He is part of the Bonneville 200 MPH Club but host, James McKeone, was able to slow him down for a drive in his...
12.07.2017
Pushkar Modi
Pushkar Modi is the Director of Engineering at Turo. If you haven't heard of Turo, it's an incredible Car Sharing service that can get you behind the wheels of all kinds of cars. It also allows private car owners to...
11.30.2017
Spike Feresten
This week, Spike Feresten stops into the Car Stories studio to talk about how working with the likes of Jerry Seinfeld and David Letterman channeled his passion for cars aka "Porsche". He also gives Kyle and James his insider tips...
11.23.2017
Vaughn Gittin Jr.
This week, Vaughn Gittin Jr drifts into the studio to talk about his rise from getting his first car to finding a love for drifting to competing against the best of the world before becoming a two times Formula Drift...
11.16.2017
Sara Price
Sara Price is a Hoonigan who loves to burn fuel be it on two wheels where she won medals at the X Games. 4 wheels where she has made cameos in movies for her skills behind the wheel, UTV's where...
11.09.2017
Ryan Millen
This week on CarStories, Ryan Millen drops in to tell Kyle & James what it’s like to be a pro rally driver for Toyota Racing and what went into his incredible undefeated 2017 season in the mighty RAV4. We also talk...
11.02.2017
Sam Smith
Sam Smith is the superstar editor at large for Road & Track Magazine and former editor at Jalopnik. CarStories host Kyle peered into Sam's creative process as a globe-trotting automotive journalist and got him to recount some of his most memorable experiences...
10.26.2017
Beau Boeckmann
James and Kyle made their way north to spend two days in the valley, and had a chance for a great conversation with Beau Boeckmann President and COO of Galpin Motors. Inc. Beau practically grew up on the showroom floor...
10.19.2017
Adam Carolla
This week James and Kyle somehow managed to trick Mr. Adam Carolla into letting them into his podcasting compound in the San Fernando Valley and sitting down for an episode of CarStories. You know Adam from his many fine podcasts and...
10.12.2017
2017 Monterey Car Week Special
Monterey Car Week is legendary among auto enthusiasts for bringing out some of the rarest and most exciting cars from around the world. We set CarStories host James McKeone loose on the Monterey Peninsula and he managed to secure interviews...
10.05.2017
Will Roegge
Will Roegge is an incredibly talented filmmaker/awesome human and you may know him has half of the team behind the documentary Keep Drifting Fun as well as being instrumental in capturing some of the craziest shots from Hoonigan's Gymkhana series...
09.28.2017
Brian Scotto from Hoonigan Industries
Brian Scotto is the co-founder and Chief Brand Officer for Hoonigan Industries, best known for the crazy car exploits of their other founder, Ken Block. Brian is an incredible guy with a huge wealth of talent and knowledge when it...
09.19.2017
Loren Healy
Loren Healy is an incredibly accomplished rock crawler and off-road racer who competes in the mind-bending Ultra4 racing series. A frequent sight at events like King of the Hammers, Loren has built a loyal following and recently left his day...
09.12.2017
Simon Kidston
Simon Kidston is one of the most interesting people you've probably never met. He is the owner of Kidston, a classic automobile consultancy unlike any other. He comes from a family of racing enthusiasts and pioneers and he has built...
09.05.2017
Gard Hollinger from Arch Motorcycle
Gard Hollinger is the engineering and design genius behind Arch Motorcycle. He's been neck-deep in motorcycles since he was a kid and has gone on to found several businesses including the incredible ChopRod custom shop. Eventually, he hooked up with Keanu...
08.29.2017
Shane Tecklenburg aka Tuned By Shane T
Shane Tecklenburg is a master of MoTeC tuning and over the years he has built himself a reputation as being the guy to go to if you have a fuel-injected race car and you need to extract maximum power from...
08.21.2017
Taro Koki from GTChannel
Taro Koki is the guy behind GTChannel, one of the most popular network of automotive channels on YouTube as well as the guy who convinced the producers of Japanese motoring video magazine, Best Motoring to let him do dubs and...
08.15.2017
Ari Henning and Zack Courts from Motorcyclist Magazine
Ari and Zack are lifelong friends who somehow, through the machinations of fate and the weirdness of the world, managed to end up as co-editors of the redesigned and rethought Motorcyclist Magazine. We were super excited to have them in...
08.08.2017
Auto Club of Southern California
The Auto Club of Southern California is one of the oldest automotive groups in the world, with its inception dating back to the turn of the 20th century. The Auto Club has been instrumental in shaping the highways, byways and...
08.01.2017
Dan Greenawalt, Creative Director for Forza Motorsport
Forza Motorsport has been one of the world's best-loved and most popular racing simulator games since its introduction in 2005. Now, with the release of the 7th game in the franchise looming, Kyle and James managed to corner Dan Greenawalt, creative...
07.25.2017
Bisi Ezerioha of Bisimoto
Bisi Ezerioha is best known as being a turbo obsessed horsepower freak who gets his kicks turning out 1000hp minivans and 850hp water-cooled turbocharged classic Porsches. A lot of people might not know that he is also a trained scientist...
07.18.2017
Evan Klein
Evan Klein is an automotive photographer and is also a total hand-full. Turn the mic on and he just goes. He is a larger than life personality and he sat down with Kyle recently to talk about daily driving classic European...
07.11.2017
Larry Chen
Larry Chen is a man that seems to be everywhere at once. Luckily for us, he tapped the power of his omnipresence to appear at the Petersen in order to sit down and talk to Kyle. Larry is best known...
07.04.2017
Rick Mitchell of the Pyrate Ryderz MC
Today is Independence Day and what could better symbolize freedom than a motorcycle? That's definitely what Kyle and James thought so this week we're pleased to present our interview with Rick Mitchell. Rick is a fascinating guy, a lifelong Californian...
06.27.2017
Formula Drift with Jim Liaw and Ryan Sage
This week, Kyle and James sit down with Jim Liaw and Ryan Sage, the two men behind the incredible motorsport series known as Formula Drift. They get into what makes Formula D so appealing to a younger generation of car...
06.20.2017
Toyota Special with Karen Ideno and Susan Sanborn
James and Kyle were invited to come down to Toyota HQ in Torrance, CA to judge the Toyota Dream Cars art contest along with several Toyota North America executives, Cheech Marin, Dave Kunz and more. They figured that since they...
06.13.2017
Cheech Marin
We were lucky enough to be invited to judge the Toyota Dream Car kid's art contest with Cheech Marin a few months ago and Mr. Marin was nice enough to sit down with us to record a short (yet sweet)...
06.06.2017
Greg Hancock
Greg Hancock is one of America's greatest racers on two wheels. He is a four-time World Speedway champion, with his most recent championship coming in his mid-forties, almost unheard of in what is normally thought of as a young man's...
05.30.2017
Melanie Hellwig White and Mike Hallmark from Hellwig Products
We had Melanie Hellwig White on the podcast as part of our 2016 SEMA special and we had so much fun that we invited her back! Melanie is one of the titular Hellwig's of Hellwig Products fame and Hellwig has...
05.23.2017
Nadia Fugazza from Petrolicious
Nadia Fugazza is the editor and producer for Petrolicous. She is an extremely talented lady and she's behind many of your favorite Petrolicious films including the wonderful Derek Bell film that was shot in Sicily with the new 718 Boxster....
05.16.2017
Ralph Hudson
Ralph Hudson is a racer and a builder. He is a member of the 200mph Club at Bonneville and wears his red hat proudly. He's the fastest man on two wheels at El Mirage dry lake. He is also an...
05.09.2017
Max Hazan
Max Hazan is a LA-based builder of exquisite one-off motorcycles that continue to set the custom motorcycle community ablaze. His recent builds have included a turbocharged Ducati and a gorgeous Art Deco-inspired BSA 500. Max is a unique guy in...
05.02.2017
Alex Ross and Magnus Walker
Alex Ross is the founder of Sharkwerks, a company that is arguably the best tuner of GT-series Porsches in America right now. He is dedicated to taking Porsche's good work and cranking it past 11 without regard for cost or...
04.25.2017
Julia LaPalme of Motorcyclist Magazine
Julia LaPalme got her start in the automotive industry as a photographer for Road & Track magazine where she stayed for almost 10 years. She shot cars all over the world and took part in some fairly insane adventures including...
04.18.2017
Jenny Smith from Rider Magazine
Jenny Smith is the real deal. Not only did she ride a ridiculously powerful motorcycle in the rain from her home to the Petersen to record this episode, she rode it in the rain to her office Ventura County after...
04.11.2017
Jacob Agajanian and James Kirkham of Donut Media
Donut Media is one of the hottest new content companies in the automotive space right now. They've built a reputation for creating outrageous and dynamic content for a variety of brands including Nissan, Gumout, Red Bull driver Daniel Ricciardo and...
04.04.2017
David Steele
David Steele is the director of the American Hot Rod Foundation, an organization dedicated to preserving the history of early hot rodding through interviewing the hot rodders themselves as well as restoring and archiving all of their ephemera. David is...
03.28.2017
Stacie B. London
Stacie B London is best known as one of the founders of the amazing East Side Moto Babes motorcycle club in LA. She's an avid road racer on her incredible "Triple Nickel 555" Honda race bike and she's getting into...

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CarStories episodes:

Mike Hallmark

Donnie Callaway

Matt Farah

Cameron Weiss

Elana Scherr

Michael Axon

Larry Chen

Derek Hill

Leslie Kendall

Jeff Rodrigues

Charles Fleming

Twanna Rogers

Bruce Meyer

Pushkar Modi

Spike Feresten

Vaughn Gittin Jr.

Sara Price

Ryan Millen

Sam Smith

Beau Boeckmann

Adam Carolla

2017 Monterey Car Week Special

Will Roegge

Brian Scotto from Hoonigan Industries

Loren Healy

Simon Kidston

Gard Hollinger from Arch Motorcycle

Shane Tecklenburg aka Tuned By Shane T

Taro Koki from GTChannel

Ari Henning and Zack Courts from Motorcyclist Magazine

Auto Club of Southern California

Dan Greenawalt, Creative Director for Forza Motorsport

Bisi Ezerioha of Bisimoto

Evan Klein

Larry Chen

Rick Mitchell of the Pyrate Ryderz MC

Formula Drift with Jim Liaw and Ryan Sage

Toyota Special with Karen Ideno and Susan Sanborn

Cheech Marin

Greg Hancock

Melanie Hellwig White and Mike Hallmark from Hellwig Products

Nadia Fugazza from Petrolicious

Ralph Hudson

Max Hazan

Alex Ross and Magnus Walker

Julia LaPalme of Motorcyclist Magazine

Jenny Smith from Rider Magazine

Jacob Agajanian and James Kirkham of Donut Media

David Steele

Stacie B. London