Autobody News covers auto body news, auto body repair news, and collision industry news in California, Arizona and Nevada. Autobody News Southwest covers auto body news, auto body repair news and collision industry repair news in Texas, Oklahoma, Lousiana and New Mexico. Auto body repair news and information is available to auto body professionals through this 23 year-old auto body shop media both as a body shop trade newspaper and a collision industry web site. Body shops find it to be required reading. 

Autobody News offers information on and a directory of dealers selling wholesale sheet metal, wholesale collision parts, wholesale crash parts, aftermarket crash parts, and recycled or salvage crash parts; also body shop equipment including frame repair equipment, paint spraying equipment, paint spray booths, hand tools such as a hammer and dolly, air compressors, airbags, spot welding equipment and arc welding equipment, solvent washers, shop management software, replacement seats, and insurance claims (DRP) software including collision damage estimating systems. If it's auto body repair news information you're after, this is where to find it.

Monthly columnists include Tom Franklin on marketing, Dick Strom on insurance issues and our newest columnist, California shop owner Lee Amaradio. Beginning in November 2006, industry journalist Sheila Loftus, formerly the editor of Hammer & Dolly Magazine, will become a contributor, joining Janet Chaney who reports from Arizona on auto body repair news. News from the national auto body repair industry news is reported on by syndicated writer from John Yoswick. The editorial staff concentrates its attention on the western and southwestern regions of the Unites States. Richard Neubauer is the president and editor, Deborah Neubauer is the publisher and Karyn Hendricks is the managing editor. Beth George is the advertising sales manager.