Fender Bender Season

It's fender bender season in California (bumper scrape season too!) The song says "it never rains in California. . . but when it rains, man it pours." And that is exactly what has been happening for the past 2 months. We're sorry for everyone who needed but didn't have a few extra feet to stop because of the rain. Like everyone else, we're ready for a sunny day or two.

Today's Car of the Day is a 2004 Honda Civic. We fixed the dent in the fender along with scrapes in both bumpers. We matched the factory paint and pinstripes on these panels and backed-up our work with a lifetime warranty against fading, peeling & loss of gloss.

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Planes, Trains & Automobiles

1937 Duchess of Hamilton Locomotive

We think we've found long lost relatives at Go Away Garage only they post stuff that we don't think we could ever get away with (their site is not always safe for work or children.) We have shamelessly swiped their photo of the high-speed steam locomotive Duchess of Hamilton that could cruise at over 100 mph on Britain's pre-WWII rail lines.

USS Macon in Hangar One Near Almost Everything Autobody

USS Macon (ZRS-5) at Hangar One, Moffett Field, California, 1933

Great photo found at the site of Go Away Garage of the USS Macon dirigible at Hangar One in Moffet Field, Mountain View, California, just a few miles from Almost Everything Autobody. The photo is from 1933, about 2 years before the Macon was lost at sea (and 75 years before our shop was opened.) The Macon was just 20 feet shorter than the Hindenburg. She carried several airplanes inside her frame and could launch them in mid-air as a floating aircraft carrier.

For more information and photos visit:

Wikipedia.org

Navy.mil

NationalGeographic.com

Airships.net

NOAA.gov (US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)