2008 Pontiac Grand Prix Insurance Repair

Almost Everything's Car of the Day is a 2008 Pontiac Grand Prix. This car came to our shop with an insurance claim already written up and ready to be repaired. We can work directly with any insurance company, all we need are a couple signatures and a claim number! You can relax knowing that we are handling all of your repairs for you directly with your insurance company. This car was a fairly straight forward repair. Its entire front bumper assembly needed to be replaced. We obtained all of the replacement parts and matched them to the original black color with our factory quality paint!

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2000 Honda Civic Overall Paintjob

Almost Everything's Car of the Day is this 2000 Honda Civic Sedan.  This greenish / greyish / whitish four-door came to Almost-Everything with an abundance of unfinished primer and plenty of unattravtive old paint.  We restored the looks of this car with our Enamel paint package, which includes all of the nesasarry prep to get paint onto a car;

1. A Chemical Cleaning to remove all stubborn stuck on road contaminants

2. Scuffing of all painted areas with an abrasive hand pad to promote paint adhesion

3. Masking of all windows, lights, and unpainted trim pieces.

4. Overall painting of the exterior.

5. A final bake in our oven to cure the new finish on!

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Video of Nissan GR-R vs Audi R8 V10

Electric Car? We Won't Tell!

Who knew venerable Consumer Reports tested cars like this?! We are impressed with their video of the Tesla Model S. We're also impressed that the Model S goes like stink, looks & feels like the finest luxury car, uses half the fuel of a Prius, has 2 huge cargo areas and can drive 200 miles between "fill-ups." Who cares if it's powered by electricity, gas or Spam?! These stats are damned hard to argue with. We'll take one in burgundy please. Oh, what the hell, give us one in midnight blue too!





P.S. MotorTrend named the Tesla Model S the 2013 Car of the Year. Consumer Reports gave it the highest score of any car. . . ever.

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Star Trek, Spock(s) and Audi

Almost nothing to do with Almost Everything Autobody EXCEPT that some of us here have loved Star Trek since the 1960's (others only since the 1990's) and we are always fans of cool cars. This video puts 'em all together (with 2 Spocks no less!)



Our friend Tod says that old Spock needs to have said "illogical" when his golf clubs won't fit in the trunk!

Lotus Elise Squashed Like a Bug

Almost Everything's Wreck of the Day is a diminutive 2005 Lotus Elise that got even smaller when a Ford Five Hundred drove on top of it. WreckedExotics.com reports that an old woman making a left hand turn just drove right up and over the Lotus--you can see the tire tracks up the hood and over the windshield!

World's Most Baffling Vehicle

We've missed Axis of Oversteer. They provided us this photo of the new Nissan Murano CrossCabriolet with the caption "This has to be one of the world's most baffling vehicles." I saw one recently on the road near San Francisco. Sadly, it doesn't look any better in the flesh. But someone did need to fill the void left by those 1990's Suzuki X90s that have at this point mostly expired.

Side-Swiped Aston Martin

What would you do if you found your car sideswiped in a garage? Almost Everything's Wreck of the Day is an Aston Martin DBS and if it happened to us, we'd be gleeful that we owned an Aston Martin! Then, of course, we'd be rather upset! Wonder if this can be fixed for less than our $1000 deductible? Uh. . . probably not.

Thanks to the brilliant guys at WreckedExotics.com who find all these things for us.

Lamborghini's 50th Anniversary

Almost Everything Auto Body Repair & Paint celebrates the 50th anniversary of the October 30, 1963 founding of Automobili Ferruccio Lamborghini S.p.A. We've collected photos of some of our favorite Lamborghinis. Some have been gorgeous cars. . . and some we would be hard pressed to call beautiful but were none-the-less brutally fast and always fascinating.

Progression of Lamborghinis, Photos by en:Wikipedia user Nrbelex

1964 Lamborghini 350 GT photo by  Simon Davison

Lamborghini Miura 400S, photo by Alfvan Beem

Lamborghini Espada, photo by Mobius

Lamborghini Aventador on the 50° Anniversario ‘Grande Giro’

Lamborghini Aventador on the 50° Anniversario ‘Grande Giro’

Ferruccio Lamborghini didn't make his fortune by selling exotic sports cars. He made it selling these. . . 

1951 Lamborghini--really!

. . . and the sports cars came later!

2014 Corvette Stingray Wreck!

How is this even possible? Almost Everything's Wreck of the Day is a 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray. It isn't even on the market yet! We get this scoop from our friends at WreckedExotics.com. In their article, they quote General Motors as saying, "During evaluation, the inside tire caught the edge of the pavement during a tight corner, leading to the accident. Thankfully, no one was hurt, the car received only minor damage, and no citations were issued." Hard to believe this is minor damage. . . but nothing we couldn't fix!

Fender Bender Extraordinaire--Rolls Royce Phantom Side-Swiped

If you're having a bad day, these photos might help put a different perspective on it. Almost Everything's Wreck of the Day is a recent Rolls Royce Phantom with custom bodywork from what looks like a low wall hit at high speed. The air bags are deployed and the car was spotted abandoned by the side of the road in China.  At roughly $500,000.00, the car may not be a total loss like any normal car would be. On the bright side, if you had to be in a vehicle that was going to be in a major accident, this tank of a car is probably a good choice.

Thanks as always to WreckedExotics.com who sent these gems to us.

Video of Lloyd Read Racing Æ Formula Car at St. Petersburg

Lloyd Read drives the streets of St. Petersburg, Florida as part of the 2013 Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, "the World's Fastest Spring Break Party!" Read pilots the Almost Everything Racing Star Mazda formula car.

Read is the 2011 Goodyear Formula Car Challenge champion and has raced for Almost Everything for the past 3 years racking up dozens of podium finishes on his race on the Road to Indy.

For more information on Lloyd Read, the Star Mazda Championship, the Road to Indy and Almost Everything Racing visit:

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Video of 2013 Ferrari "LaFerrari"

Beautiful car. Dumb name. Ferrari has unveiled the successor to the GTO, F40, F50 and Enzo and is calling it "LaFerrari." Which as far as we can tell is universally derided. Still, we wouldn't turn one down if offered to us. . . or if we had the $1.3M needed to buy one.

It's a hybrid and the most outrageous Ferrari to date:

• 0-60 in less than 3 seconds
• 220 mph top speed
• 0963 HP
• 665 lb-ft (900+ Nm) torque.

1963 Volkswagen Bug Color Restoration

Almost Everything's Car of the Day is a 1963 Volkswagen Beetle.  This Peoples Car came to our shop with many different colors on it---Flat Black, Glossy-ish black, and a bit of Grey primer, there was also some bodywork that needed our attention.  We started by smoothing out all of the dings,dents, and gouges that the car's owner specified to be fixed.  Next we applied a Primer-Sealer to give the new paint something to "bite" onto.  Lastly we refinished the entire exterior of the car with our Urethane + Integrated Clear coat paint! The color that was applied to the Bug came right out of our color swatch book and is called "Black Pearl".

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0% Interest for 6 Months

0% Interest for 6 months* available on purchases of $300 or more with your Almost Everything credit card. Subject to credit approval. Minimum monthly payments required. See store for details.




*Offer applies only to single-receipt qualifying purchases. No interest will be charged on the promo purchase if you pay the promo purchase amount in full within 6 months. If you do not, interest will be charged on the promo purchase from the purchase date. Regular account terms apply to non-promotional purchases and, after promotion ends, to promotional balance. For new accounts: Purchase APR is XX%; Minimum Interest Charge is $2. Existing cardholders should see their credit card agreement for their applicable terms. Subject to credit approval.

Video of Ferrari 458 Italia Blunder

This was not a good way to start the day. Some friends decided to make a video of their new Ferrari 458 Italia flying by. It didn't work quite as planned.

1998 Ford Mustang Transformation

Almost Everything's Car of the Day is a 1998 Ford Mustang. This Car is somebody's new baby. The owner recently purchased the car and was looking to personalize it to his liking. Before we could put new paint on the car, there was a fair amount of body work that was to be done! We smoothed out all of the dings, dents and imperfections that the owner specified and replaced a few damaged parts with brand new aftermarket pieces. Once we had completed the bodywork, the car was scuffed with an abrasive pad and degreased to remove all surface contaminants. Finally the car was ready for its new paint; a stunning blue metallic in our Urethane Paint for an amazingly glossy, long lasting finish!

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Almost Everything's Wreck of the Day brings tears to our eyes. The Aston Martin Rapide is quite possibly the loveliest 4 door sedan on the planet. . . and one of the very fastest too. This one hit an Audi SUV in Beijing.

Thanks to WreckedExotics.com for the photos and alerting us, as always, to the destruction of another exotic car.

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