{"id":492671,"date":"2012-10-01T18:00:18","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T01:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=24719"},"modified":"2024-02-28T12:03:21","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T12:03:21","slug":"randy-ema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/randy-ema\/","title":{"rendered":"Randy Ema"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<figure id=\"attachment_532023\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-532023\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ROADint201210-p1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-532023\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ROADint201210-p1.jpg\" alt=\" Noted Duesenberg expert Randy Ema runs a successful restoration business in Orange, California.\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ROADint201210-p1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ROADint201210-p1-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ROADint201210-p1-71x100.jpg 71w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ROADint201210-p1-293x410.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-532023\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Noted Duesenberg expert Randy Ema runs a successful restoration business in Orange, California.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b><i>VR<\/i>: I would imagine, like every consummate car guy, cars must have been a very early influence for you?<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>RE:<\/b> As a little kid, I played with Matchbox and AMT models. I only liked those because they were exact to scale. They were standard scale and they were exactly like the real car. I didn\u2019t play with some Auburn rubber toy or any of the other makes because they weren\u2019t exactly, and they varied in scale. So, I was kind of anal even back then when I was a little kid. It all came from my interest as a kid and then\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n        .memberful-global-teaser-content p:last-child{\n            -webkit-mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n            mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n        }\n    <\/style>\n<div class='memberful-global-marketing-content'>\n<div class=\"a07online-global-marketing-content-wrapper\">\n<h2 class=\"a07online-global-marketing-title\">No Subscription? 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I didn\u2019t play with some Auburn rubber toy or any of the other makes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":532029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11272,18114],"tags":[18435,16462],"class_list":["post-492671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-members-only","category-people","tag-people","tag-interview"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Randy Ema<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Restorer\/Collector\/Vintage Car Historian Shares His Insights\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/randy-ema\/\" \/>\n<link rel=\"next\" 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