1997 Nissan Half-Ton Pickup Paintjob!

Almost Everything's Car of the Day is a 1997 Nissan Half Ton "Hardbody" Pickup truck. When this truck first came into our shop it looked terrible! Its body had been "spray can primered" and there was a large dent on the hood which needed some attention. We straightened out the dent then started sanding out all of the "primered over" defects such as minor chips and scratches. Once all of our sanding was complete we pulled the truck into our paint booth where our own primer was applied, and finally repainted the entire exterior of the pickup with our Enamel paint in the truck's original color!

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Video of 3 Lamborghinis on Fire!

We approach this with some guilty glee. You know we love reporting burning super cars. Today's Wreck of the Day is a trifecta. A group of 5 Lamborghinis were travelling in convoy from the city-state of Singapore to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The middle car lost traction and crashed into the center divide. The car behind it (not sure if it was the ugly BMW or one of the other Lamborghinis) crashed into an additional 2 cars then a bus hit the lot of them. Somehow 3 of the Lamborghinis, an Aventador and 2 Gallardos, ended-up on top of each other. Being Lamborghinis, they, of course, burst into flames. And there's video! Director Norazam of the local fire and rescue reported that drivers & passengers escaped without injury.

Thanks to WreckedExotics.com for sending us the links, Ilmu Pendoman Hidup for the back story and additional photos, sriganesh2005 and The Malay Mail Online for even more video and details!

1993 Lexus SC400 Paint Job!

Almost Everything's Car of the Day is a 1993 Lexus SC400. This luxury coupe came into our shop with the typical wear and finish of a 20 year old car. It had dings, peeling paint and plenty of rock chips and scratches! We began by repairing a selected few dings that the car's owner requested to be fixed. Then we moved the car into sanding where the peeling paint was removed. All of the windows, lights and trim pieces were masked to minimize overspray on them. We rolled it into the paint booth, primered, and finally painted it with our basic Enamel for a great looking finish that didnt break the bank!

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Nature at Its Finest--A Falcon Nesting in a Tree. . .

This photo came to us in an e-mail. We don't have any information about who took it or where it was taken. It looks to us to be about a 1960-1962 Ford Falcon. Let us know if you have the story behind it.

Video of One-of-a-Kind Lamborghini Crash

Almost Everything's Wreck of the Day is a one-of-a-kind Lamborghini concept supercar called the Giugiaro Parcour. This past weekend at the 2013 Goodwood Festival of Speed (FoS) the Giugiaro Parcour was participating in the Supercar Run and spun off the race track into a hay bale wall. The damage is certainly repairable but the video is still hard to watch.

Goodwood Estate where the Festival of Speed is held every year

As is so often the case, our buddies across the Bay at WreckedExotics.com alerted us to this automotive tragedy.

2004 Infiniti i35 Collision Repair!

Almost Everything's Car of the Day is a 2004 Infiniti i35. This mid-sized luxury sedan came to Almost-Everything with not just a dent, but a gash running straight through the rear drivers side quarter panel! In addition to the gash needing repairs, the rear left door was damaged so severely it needed to be replaced! We began by welding the gash shut and repairing the rest of the damage on that same panel while we waited for our replacement door to arrive from our original recycled parts supplier. Once the door arrived we installed it after painting the inside jamb. By the time the door was finished being installed, the repairs to the torn rear panel were all finished up, making this car ready for paint! We repainted the rear left quarter panel, door, and "blended" paint onto the front left door for an even repair with no hard breaks or differences in color!

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Can I park here?

Almost Everything's Cars of the Day are two extreme opposites. The Chevrolet Silverado has about five feet of ground clearance, whereas the BMW E30 has a little less than an inch and a half between its oil pan and the ground. Interestingly enough, the BMW hauls engines, furniture, and other massive stuff to test the vehicle's structural integrity in a real-world setting. The truck looks pretty.

Full disclosure: the BMW belongs to Joel, Almost Everything's Customer Service Manager.

1993 Jeep Wrangler Paintjob!

Almost Everything's Car of the Day is a 1993 Jeep Wrangler, this off road machine was dropped off at our shop as a dull, grey / white / black sort of...thing. This Jeep happens to be a project that is going to be both driven on the street and off road.  Knowing that the paint is going to be chipped and dented from off roading in the very near future the owner did not want to apply an expensive factory type of paint.  With this in mind we reccomended a basic "Single Stage" Enamel, a convieniently cost effective paint material.  We cleaned up all of the exterior surfaces, masked off all of the trim and interior, painted it jet black, and finally baked it in our oven to cure the new finish on!

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2013 Best of Fremont Award

2013 Best Automobile Body Shop–"NEW YORK, NY, May 30, 2013–For the third consecutive year, Almost Everything Auto Body has been selected for the 2013 Best of Fremont Award in the Automobile Body Shops category by the U.S. Commerce Association (USCA). The USCA "Best of Local Business" Award Program recognizes outstanding local businesses throughout the country. Each year, the USCA identifies companies that they believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and community.

"The USCA "Best of Local Business" Award Program recognizes outstanding local businesses throughout the country. Each year, the USCA identifies companies that they believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and community.

"Nationwide, only 1 in 120 (less than 1%) 2013 Award recipients qualified as Three-Time Award Winners. Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to choose the winners in each category. The 2013 USCA Award Program focuses on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined based on the information gathered both internally by the USCA and data provided by third parties."

Almost Everything thanks our wonderful customers and business partners for recognizing us with this award. 

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.

For more recent news on the Tesla Model S:
consumerreports.org
cnn.com
usatoday.com
cnbc.com
latimes.com

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!