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But Does it Transform?: Jessie Vigil painted and modified his 2007 Ford Mustang to look like a police car. He wanted to make his car look like the cruiser in the "Transformers" movie because his seven-year-old son is a fan.
More Money than Brains: A millionaire businessman in the UK has his $160,000 Maserati Cambiocorsa impounded for literally dozens of unpaid fines. He left the car in impound for over three months, eventually racking up nearly $10,000 in impound fees!
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Venerable Pinstriping: Before the invention of the car, pinstriping was used as decoration on horse-drawn buggies and carriages!
A Lot of Cars: Close to 17 million vehicles are registered in Canada. That's more than one car for every two people!
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Greetings!
Are we headed for a recession? It's a tough question to answer. Even professional economists have trouble with it. In fact, it seems like economists are only definitive about it after the recession has ended.
Do we in the collision repair business really need to worry? After all, there are many who would say that collision repair is one of the few truly recession-proof businesses. That would be great if it were true, but it's probably not.
There's no time like a busy time to start developing plans to increase volume. Now is the time to plan some strategies to keep business at the current brisk pace.
Mike Davey,
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Headline News
Below are just a few of the great stories running live on collisionrepairmag.com.
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Performance World Highlights
Performance World Custom Car and Truck Show took place over the
weekend in Toronto, ON. Among the highlights were the Dark
Knights Auto Salon, featuring some of the coolest custom paint jobs on Earth,
the Live Build event and the 28,000 square foot Products Expo from
Sherwin-Williams. Watch for further coverage in an upcoming issue of Collision
Repair magazine.
 The Meguiar's booth at the Sherwin-Williams' Product Expo. From left; Joel Prior,
Michael McLean, and Graeme Taylor.
Michele and Steven Bloom of Great North Hot Rods showing off one of their favourite customs.
Numerous members of the Sherwin-Williams' team were on hand throughout Performance World. From left; David A. Kidd, Brian Busby,Rod Habel, and Daryll
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Know Your Strengths: Facility Manager
By Mike Davey
As a manager, your staff members depend on you to let them
know where they are strong and where they are weak. But what are you to do if
you're passionate about self-improvement? You may have a gut feeling about
where you stand, but making decisions based on gut feelings is the first step
on the road to bankruptcy.
There's a new tool you can use to assess both your employees
and yourself. Called CARSability, it offers numerous online tests to determine
strengths and weaknesses in various areas. I recently took the Collision Repair
Manager test to see how it worked. Read more...
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Solera Holdings Appoints Jason Brady as General Counsel
Solera Holdings has announced the appointment of Jason Brady as
Senior Vice President and General Counsel, responsible for the
Company's global legal organization, including corporate compliance and
governance and mergers and acquisitions.Jason has more than 12 years of relevant law experience, and in past positions has been responsible for SEC reporting and compliance, corporate transactions, corporate governance, litigation, commercial collaborations,intellectual
property matters and employment matters. He previously served as Vice
President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at Xenogen
Corporation, a publicly-traded biotechnology company that was sold to
Caliper Life Sciences. Read more...
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Senior Staff Appointments at AIA Canada
AIA President Marc Brazeau is pleased to announce the addition of two
new senior level employees to the Association's team. Effective in
2008, Steve Houle is the Director, National Business Development and
Mireille Schippers is Manager, Member and Industry Relations.
"The
needs of our members, as well as the landscape within which we operate,
are evolving," says Marc Brazeau. "Steve and Mireille bring with them
the skills and experience the association needs to stay at the cutting
edge of these changes."
Read more...
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