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) . . .

1995 Toyota Tercel Paint Job!

Almost Everything's Car of the Day is a 1995 Toyota Tercel.  This little red economy car came to our shop as a faded, chalky looking thing.  We brought this Tercel back by first sanding out all of the chips and scratches, then applying a primer sealer to provide a perfect surface for the new paint to bond to.  Once those steps were complete we repainted the entire car with our most basic "Enamel" paint!  This Toyota is a great example, showcasing how even our most basic paint with the correct prep work can look great, all done while staying on a tight budget!

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Ferrari FF and F355 Destroyed in Offroad Adventures

Almost Everything's Wreck of the Day is not one but 2 different Ferraris used for off roading. Sadly this isn't the first time we've joked about a Ferrari being used as a Jeep. The first wreck comes from Lancashire, England where an Oakley Design tuned Ferrari FF worth about US$300,000 stopped running up this hill when it finally hit a tree!

The second set of photos comes from Germany where a farmer was using his Ferrari F355 to plow his field. We are only speculating but it seems obvious that either an angry bull or a belligerent gang of llamas rolled the Ferrari several times.

Thankfully, both the farmer and the hill climber survived these crashes with few if any injuries.

Thanks to our buddies at WreckedExotics.com for always providing us with expensive mayhem.

Almost-Everything's "Red Rocket"

Almost Everything's Car of the Day is our very own 2000 BMW 528i Touring. This is our "Shop Car" we use it to transport customers locally after dropping off their cars for us to paint, hauling supplies, now it will also be useful for catching eyes and promoting our shop (on the off days that we arent in our Red Rolls Royce, or our Golden Helicopter). We repaired little dings and imperfections on the BMW's body, sanded out all of the rock chips, applied a primer sealer, and finally painted it with our Company Color: GM's "Torch Red" using our premium single stage "Urethane" paint!

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The Almost-Everything Chopper

Our Red Rolls Royce Bucket