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Almost Everything's Mobile Billboard!

Almost Everything's Car of the Day is our BMW 528i Wagon that we posted a few weeks ago.  A major change happened since then, if you look extremely closely you may notice a small "Almost Everything" logo blasted down the sides of our "Torch Red" wagon. This final touch of understated advertisement was added by our friend and neighbor Chris from Vinyl-Ink ! Keep an eye out for our Bright Red BMW flying around the Bay Area!

Join Us to Stop Ferrari Abuse!

We like to stay out of politics. . . but on this issue our hackles have been raised! In the past week we reported 2 poor, defenseless Ferraris destroyed by senseless offroading. Today we add a third.

Almost Everything's Wreck of the Day is an F458 Italia driven by what we are sure is a mature 18 year old from Norway. Sadly, the immense wealth of his parents could not buy knowledge that Ferraris cannot conquer all terrains, do not have 18" of ground clearance and have not been tested on the surface of Mars. Some argue that Ferrari has never made any of these claims and that most fools can tell that a Ferrari should be driven on pavement. The evidence is clearly to the contrary and until a permanent solution can be found, we think fools and their Ferraris should be parted. Send us your Ferrari and we guarantee not to off road it for you. 

Please send your abused Ferraris along with generous donations to:

    Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ferraris (SPCF)

    c/o Almost Everything Auto Body

    37414 Centralmont Place

    Fremont, California 94536

    USA

Won't you do your part? Tell Ferrari to stop promoting off road use of these innocent supercars! Leave the mud and boulders to Land Rover, Jeep and Steyr-Daimler-Puch.

Note: despite the severity of the crash, the driver was uninjured. And thankfully, no one at the school where this crash took place was hurt. Thanks to WreckedExotics.com for our regular doses of exotic car mayhem.

Almost Everything Named Best Body Shop by Bay Area Voters

Woo Hoo! Thanks!

The Bay Area A-List contest happens every year and has been sponsored by the San Francisco Chronicle, ABC-7, SFGate.com and CityVoter.com. Tens of thousands of votes were cast. Hundreds of businesses were nominated. When the dust settled, Almost Everything came in 1st out of 78 nominees in the Auto Body Shop category. So thanks to the many happy customers who voted for us!

We've repaired thousands of cars. Here's a few examples of our work. . . 

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Almost Everything Sponsors Gunn High School LeMons Racer

Almost Everything Auto Body is extraordinarily. . . no. . . stupendifically proud to sponsor Palo Alto's Gunn High School Auto Tech in the infamous 24 Hours of LeMons! This year's super enduro for sub-$500 vehicles takes place (at least in California) at Sonoma Raceway, Sears Point.

Join Us!

Date:    March 22-23, 2014

Time:    . . . it's a 24 hour race. . .

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           Sonoma Raceway

           "Sears Point"

           29355 Arnold Dr.

           Sonoma, California 95476

Spectator Admission:   $30

That's right, unlike the $140 NASCAR race a few weeks later, this one is nearly free!

Gunn Auto Tech students created as their LeMons entry a replica of the Pizza Planet delivery truck made famous by Pixar's Toy Story. 24 Hours of LeMons is a humorous take on the oldest, most grueling and prestigious auto race, the 24 Heures du Mans. The real LeMans race is held annually in LeMans, France with top auto manufacturers competing with the fastest cars in the world. The 24 Hours of LeMons is NOT like that. It was established in 2006 by Car & Driver editor Jay Lamm as “Endurance Racing for $500 Cars” (i.e. lemons.)

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Almost Everything provides support for youth programs in the San Francisco Bay Area through regular sponsorship of the Washington High School Car Show, California School for the Deaf internships, Gunn High School and many other local events.

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Mike Camicia is the Gunn High School Auto Tech Instructor, an SCCA (Sports Car Club of America) champion and local racing legend. Mike quips that his wife has actually won more SCCA championships that he has. Our kind of family!

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Frank Barnard, Almost Everything's General Manager, says, “Kids that learn to build and race cars for the 24 Hours of LeMons better understand the need for safety, the potential and limitations of cars in general, and the potential consequences of an accident. It's a great education."

Pizza Planet Rocket under development:

Pixar/Pizza Planet Trivia: amazingly, the Pizza Planet truck has appeared in nearly every Pixar movie to date including: Toy Story (where it first appears), A Bug's Life, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, Cars, Ratatouille, WALL-E, Up, Brave (apparently, pizza and Toyota pick-ups have been popular since the dark ages.) See Wikipedia for the complete list and descriptions of how/where the truck appears.

More info. on Gunn High School Auto Tech, 24 Hours of LeMons & Sonoma Raceway:

http://www.gunnautotech.com/ (Gunn High School Auto Tech Website)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hIkpOIwSV4 (Gunn High School Auto Tech Video)
http://www.24hoursoflemons.com/
http://www.racesonoma.com/

1962 Ford Falcon Painted!

Almost Everything's Car of the Day is a 1962 Ford Falcon. This classic came to us in primer, its owner had some bodywork started and was now looking to simply clean up some of his work and paint the car. Since the owner didn't want to break his bank we recommended our Enamel single stage paint. Once our clean-up and sanding were finished we repainted the car with its original (by the book) color! Unfortunately once the car came out of our booth, due to many chemical differences and decades of paint formulas since the car was made, the color was off.  We worked with the owner and came up with a solution, we repainted the car again with a color that matched much better that we found in our color book! We compared our swatches to panels that still had original paint inside the car. Luckily the second time it came out of our booth the color was spot-on!

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Jaguar's Good to Be Bad Promotion

Jaguar are promoting their new F-Type sports car (and we do mean sport--it is completely, unreservedly awesome) with their #GoodToBeBadContest.

The most recent contest "mission" was, "Tell us what song's playing when you're at your most villainous." It brought to mind a song that I used to blast on repeat while road racing along cliffs and mountain roads on the California coast above San Francisco.

So. . . here is Frank's (from Almost Everything's) insane driving theme song, "The Floral Dance" by The Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band (#2 on the British Pop Charts in 1977) . . .