Valspar Automotive Selects Refinishers to be Featured in 2021 Calendar

Valspar Automotive has selected the winners of its award-winning finishes contest to be showcased in the 2021 Valspar Automotive Calendar. On this year’s cover, Valspar Automotive will showcase the work of Bo Vescio of Vescio’s Customizing in Rogers, MN, on a 1958 Bocar. Other featured refinishers include Jason Vander Woude’s 2015 Harley-Davidson Roadglide from NSD… Continue reading Valspar Automotive Selects Refinishers to be Featured in 2021 Calendar

Yokohama Tire Wins 2020 GOOD DESIGN Award

Yokohama Tire’s latest GEOLANDAR product, the GEOLANDAR CV G058, was named a 2020 GOOD DESIGN award-winner in the transportation category from The Chicago Athenaeum, the tire manufacturer announced. “We’re honored once again to earn a prestigious GOOD DESIGN award for one of our GEOLANDAR tires,” Andrew Briggs, Yokohama’s vice president of marketing and product management.… Continue reading Yokohama Tire Wins 2020 GOOD DESIGN Award

Lakeland Winter Collector Car Auction Confirmed

The Lakeland Winter Collector Car Auction will take place as scheduled on Feb. 19-20, show organizers confirmed. Buyers will be able to bid and buy in-person, on the phone and online. 2021 auction highlights include 400+ consignments, an all-truck hour and a handful of resto-mods. For the February 2021 auction, there will be some modifications… Continue reading Lakeland Winter Collector Car Auction Confirmed

Canoo Unveils Fully-Electric Multipurpose Work Vehicle

Canoo, a company developing electric vehicles (EVs), has revealed its all-electric multipurpose delivery vehicle. Priced at $30,000, the vehicle is purposefully designed to maximize return on investment for its customers, the company said, and is based on Canoo’s proprietary electric platform and will be offered in two initial size variants, with others to follow. Limited… Continue reading Canoo Unveils Fully-Electric Multipurpose Work Vehicle

Pontiac Parts Specialist Steve Ames Passes Away

Steve Ames, 78, of Marlborough, New Hampshire, passed away on Dec. 20. After graduating from Columbia University with an engineering degree, he went into the National Guard. His next job was with a large paper company in Maine. Corporate life didn’t agree with him, so he ran a machine shop and drag raced from 1961… Continue reading Pontiac Parts Specialist Steve Ames Passes Away

GoFundMe Campaign Organized for Trimmer Battling Cancer

Orlando Ojeda of Bill Dunn One Stop Shop in Huntington Beach, California, recently learned that he has stage 4 pancreatic cancer, according to The Hog Ring. Because Ojeda is currently receiving chemotherapy and unable to work, a long-time friend has organized a GoFundMe campaign to support Ojeda and his family. Ojeda, a trimmer, has worked… Continue reading GoFundMe Campaign Organized for Trimmer Battling Cancer

Meyer Distributing Forms Partnership with PRVN

Meyer Distributing has been selected by the Priority RV Network (PRVN) to be a preferred parts and accessory distributor to serve the needs of its nationwide RV dealership locations, the parts distributor announced. “We are excited about the opportunity to work with PRVN, as we share the same core values that ultimately affect end-users in… Continue reading Meyer Distributing Forms Partnership with PRVN

The History of the 1970 Challenger R/T SE ‘Black Ghost’

A 1970 Challenger R/T SE, known by many as the “Black Ghost,” was recently inducted into the Historic Vehicle Association’s National Historic Vehicle Register. Although a dominant figure in the Detroit street-racing scene during the 70s, few people knew who was behind the wheel of the Black Ghost and why it suddenly vanished from Woodward… Continue reading The History of the 1970 Challenger R/T SE ‘Black Ghost’

The Most Instagrammable Luxury Cars

British personalized license plate company Click4Reg has determined the most Instagrammable luxury car after combing through the social media website. After counting up thousands of posts, Click4Reg found that the Porsche Panamera was the most popular car on the platform, as posters used #porschepanamera hashtag over 334,000 times. The Panamera was followed closely by the… Continue reading The Most Instagrammable Luxury Cars

Volkswagen Unveils All-New 2022 Taos Compact SUV

Volkswagen has unveiled the all-new 2022 Taos. The vehicle is positioned in the largest U.S. vehicle segment, the compact SUV market, where 4 million vehicles were sold in 2019—around 24 percent of the market. “Taos is our fifth new addition to the Volkswagen SUV family in just four years, and we’re thrilled to keep finding… Continue reading Volkswagen Unveils All-New 2022 Taos Compact SUV

Toyota Reveals TRD-Sport Trailer

Toyota has revealed a second wave of custom SEMA vehicles, including the overlanding-ready TRD-Sport Trailer. The company previously unveiled four builds in its wave one SEMA360 Showcase presentation, held Nov. 2, 2020. SEMA360 is the Specialty Equipment Market Association’s (SEMA) online program connecting the automotive aftermarket industry in a year that made the traditional SEMA… Continue reading Toyota Reveals TRD-Sport Trailer

Winter AutoFest Canceled

Winter AutoFest, held annually at the SUN n’ FUN Expo Campus in Lakeland, Florida each February, has been canceled, organizers announced. Organized by promoter Carlisle Events, the three-day event includes a quintet of car show options, an automotive flea market and a two-day classic and collector car auction. Because of ongoing COVID-related concerns, the planned… Continue reading Winter AutoFest Canceled

RacingJunk Forms Marketing Partnership with Pub Table Racers

RacingJunk.com has entered into a new marketing partnership with Pub Table Racers, the online classified website announced. The two organizations will join forces for a cross-promotional campaign. Pub Table Racers is a weekly Facebook Live show and website hosted by two NASCAR Industry insiders, Warren Brosel and Tim Packman. They cover NASCAR and Grassroots racing… Continue reading RacingJunk Forms Marketing Partnership with Pub Table Racers

LIQUI MOLY Donates Car Care Products to First Responders, Frontline Workers

LIQUI MOLY has completed a donation campaign that gave over 20,000 packages of free products to rescue services, fire brigades and frontline workers, the company announced. The donation campaign started at the beginning of April with a volume of one million euro. The goal: To support first responders around the world in the fight against… Continue reading LIQUI MOLY Donates Car Care Products to First Responders, Frontline Workers

Apple Developing Self-Driving Electric Vehicle

Apple is currently developing a self-driving electric car, according to a report from Reuters, and is targeting a 2024 launch. The vehicle will reportedly use monocell battery technology, which frees up space inside the battery pack by eliminating pouches and modules that hold battery materials, meaning that more active material can be packed inside the… Continue reading Apple Developing Self-Driving Electric Vehicle