The 2008 Ford Taurus X, a mid-size SUV, meets the criteria to win the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s Top Safety Pick award. Winners of this designation afford superior overall crash protection among the vehicles in their class. To qualify for Top Safety Pick, a vehicle must earn the highest rating of good in all three Institute tests – front, side, and rear – and be equipped with electronic stability control.
“Little Deuce Coupe,” “409,” “The Little Old Lady From Pasadena,” “GTO,” “Hey Little Cobra.” You know the songs and you can almost smell the burnt rubber. Such songs from The Beach Boys, Jan and Dean, The Rip Cords, and others evoke memories in every one of us from days long past. This was an era of camaraderie, creativity, hard work ethics, originality and bonding friendships.
Ronny and Jessica Flores put thier body shop skills to good use in the community on a recent visit to a women's shelter. The shop owners nearly overlooked thier potential for giving back, until they caught wind of a great opportunity to connect.
Maria Martinez won't be walking to work anymore, thanks to the generous spirit of Bates Custom & Collision in Baytown, Texas. The single mother of three teenage children regularly took a bus from her Houston home and then walked several miles to her $8.50/hour job as a security guard, while her teenagers walked three miles to school.
While many auto manufacturers have cut back on technical training offered to body shops, relying instead on paint makers and collision equipment manufacturers to deliver their "approved collision training," University of Toyota is serving more students than ever in its repair and refinish programs.
There are dozens of marketing strategies you can use to generate business for your shop, but none more important than referrals. Referrals are the lifeblood of most collision repair facilities. I'm going to take you through the seven steps to double your referrals. We're going to talk about referrals and referral stimulation strategies that you can start to use right away in your shop that will increase your sales and won't cost you a fortune. I will also ask you a lot of questions to get you thinking, and give you some ideas to use right now to start to increase your referrals.
Today the phrase, “Working Together Is The Most Important Work We Do” is recognized as a hallmark of SCRS. In honor of the society’s 25th anniversary celebration, a historical timeline has been compiled through the stories of past members and key players.
Al Estorga was fuming.
For the fourth consecutive year, Bates Custom & Collision of Baytown, Texas gave a deserving Baytown family one heck of a Christmas present - a 1995 Chevrolet Corsica that had been totally rebuilt by the Baytown staff. The annual gift is part of the Akzo Nobel Acoat Selected Benevolence Program through which body shops across the country donate their time and money to help out a needy and deserving family in their communities.
Mike's (Mike Rose) Auto Body in the East Bay area of San Francisco rebuilt and donated two automobiles to needy, deserving families at Christmas as part of the national Akzo Nobel Acoat Select Benevolence Program.
It was 5:05 p.m. on May 8 when Mike Myers and his staff gathered around the TV to check up on the weather. At 5:15 p.m. they were all huddled together in the pit of the downdraft booth, listening to the devastation taking place above them.