Local news stories affecting the auto body industry in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin
A neighborhood crime took place in Westland, MI, when a business specializing in supercharged vehicles had three of them disappear overnight.
The Danville, IL, City Council’s Public Works Committee recommended purchasing a former auto body shop property on South Gilbert Street where a burned structure has been sitting.
Stellantis N.V. and Samsung SDI on May 24 announced they will establish an electric-vehicle battery manufacturing facility in Kokomo, IN.
In 1999, Alexandria, IN, resident Bobby Eden traveled to a car show in Evansville, IN, and, as he watched the entries make their way through the property’s front gate, he saw a 1936 Ford Slantback sedan.
The Tesla Cybertruck made its most recent public appearance at the Michigan Formula SAE competition at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, MI.
After 36 years of teaching auto body collision technology at Minnesota State College Southeast in Winona, MN, Tom Brandt is handing over the keys to the college’s auto body shop at the end of the spring semester.
Ford’s introductory all-electric pickup, the F-150 Lightning, recently began production, and finished units are filling parking lots near the automaker’s Dearborn, MI, production plant, preparing to make their way to dealerships as demo vehicles.
Online used-car retailer Carvana Co's license to sell vehicles in Illinois was suspended on May 10 over the mishandling of paperwork related to its vehicle sales, a state official said May 18.
Ford, General Motors and Stellantis will once again require face masks at facilities in southeast Michigan where COVID-19 cases are on the rise.
The Chardon Fire Department responded May 13 to a large fire at Crash Champions Collision Repair in Auburn Township, OH.