Name: Bobby Emmert

Profession: Auto Mechanic

Accomplishments: Winning first place in the car show at the 2001 Year One Bristol Bash with his all-steel 1941 Willys coupe • Being a successful business owner, first with a transmission shop, and now a front-wheel-drive axle rebuilding shop. • Learning how to build cars from his uncle, who took the time to teach him the trade, then building several cars including a 1932 Ford sedan, a 1932 Vicky, a 1933 Chevy, a 1935 Ford, and a 1953 Studebaker hardtop.

Quote: “You hear a lot of people say ‘I almost had this or had that’; I say almost had a chicken don’t make no soup.”

Preferred Supplier: Year One