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Chrome Systems Corporation News Release

Chrome Systems Corporation News Release

USAA Selects Chrome Systems Corporation's Configurator Chrome's Accurate Pricing Data And Configuration Technology Enable USAA To Provide Members With Comprehensive Online Automotive Services PORTLAND, Ore.--June 29, 2001--Chrome Systems Corporation, provider of automotive data, configuration technology and commerce so ... Continue reading

Etchells & Epler Match Race in Norwalk with Eyes on Pomona

Etchells & Epler Match Race in Norwalk with Eyes on Pomona

(Note: The following is attached in text format for your convenience.) Contact: Jon G. Knapp Phone: (704) 662-3121 Fax: (704) 662-3021 www.etchellsracing.com ETCHELLS & EPLER MATCH RACE IN NORWALK WITH EYES ON POMONA Putnam, Conn., June 29, 2001 - While most of the professional teams in the NHRA will be enjoying a well ... Continue reading

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Click on a thumbnail image to view it full size Click here if you can't read this <http://q5media.com/MailDirect/application/mrgasket/md_a ltview.asp?ID=23 2> Mr. Gasket Announces CopperSEAL™ Exhaust Gaskets <http://www.mrgasket.com/primages/7180.jpg> Mr. Gasket Announces CopperSEAL™ Exhaust Gaskets Cleveland, Ohio ... Continue reading

MICHELIN MAN AND JIM PALMER Michelin man congratulates agency Jim Palmer. [AG] GREENVILLE, SC USA 06/29/2001

MICHELIN MAN AND JIM PALMER Michelin man congratulates agency Jim Palmer. [AG] GREENVILLE, SC USA 06/29/2001

GREENVILLE, S.C., June 29 Michelin North America, Inc. announced today that it has awarded its U.S. Michelin brand account to Campbell-Ewald of Detroit. The announcement comes after an extensive agency review process. Michelin North America placed its U.S. Michelin-brand account in review earlier this year after a sign ... Continue reading

MITSUBISHI EVOLUTION 6.5 Rhys Millen driving Mitsubishi Evolution 6.5 sets his best-ever qualifying time in preparation for the 79th annual Pike's Peak International Hill Climb. Media contact: Janis Little of Mitsubishi Motor Sales of America, Inc., 714-372-6429. [AG] CYPRESS, CA USA 06/29/2001

MITSUBISHI EVOLUTION 6.5 Rhys Millen driving Mitsubishi Evolution 6.5 sets his best-ever qualifying time in preparation for the 79th annual Pike's Peak International Hill Climb. Media contact: Janis Little of Mitsubishi Motor Sales of America, Inc., 714-372-6429. [AG] CYPRESS, CA USA 06/29/2001

CYPRESS, Calif., June 29 Mitsubishi Motor Sales of America, Inc. has issued the following caption to accompany a photo available at: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20010629/LAF054 Rhys Millen driving Mitsubishi Evolution 6.5 sets his best-ever qualifying time in preparation for the 79th annual Pike's Peak Internat ... Continue reading

MyRepairShop CEO to Address the Forces Shaping the Automotive Aftermarket Service Business; First eAftermarket Forum Offers Service Professionals Solutions to Technological Challenges

MyRepairShop CEO to Address the Forces Shaping the Automotive Aftermarket Service Business; First eAftermarket Forum Offers Service Professionals Solutions to Technological Challenges

HOUSTON--June 29, 2001--Brad Hays, CEO of MyRepairShop(TM) Inc., joins other aftermarket leaders in a panel discussion entitled "Service Is in for the Big Change" during the eAftermarket Forum on August 1 at 10 a.m. at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare -- Rosemont Convention Center. Presented by AAIA and AWDA, the eAftermarket ... Continue reading

New HUMMER Dealer Appointed in Boston - Long HUMMER

New HUMMER Dealer Appointed in Boston - Long HUMMER

FOR RELEASE: June 29, 2001 New HUMMER Dealer Appointed in Boston - Long HUMMER BOSTON -The world's premier off-road vehicle, the HUMMER H1, is now on sale and available in the Boston metropolitan area at the newly appointed Long HUMMER in Framingham, Massachusetts. General Motors and AM General awarded a new HUMMER fra ... Continue reading

New HUMMER Dealer Appointed In Hartford - Crowley HUMMER

New HUMMER Dealer Appointed In Hartford - Crowley HUMMER

FOR RELEASE: June 29, 2001 New HUMMER Dealer Appointed In Hartford - Crowley HUMMER Hartford, Conn. -The world's premier off-road vehicle, the HUMMER H1, is now on sale and available at the newly appointed Crowley HUMMER in Hartford, Connecticut. General Motors and AM General awarded a new HUMMER franchise to Ken Crowl ... Continue reading

News from Kenworth: Kenworth, CFI Team Ready To Race T2000 at Pikes Peak Tomorrow

News from Kenworth: Kenworth, CFI Team Ready To Race T2000 at Pikes Peak Tomorrow

NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Jeff Parietti, (719) 473-5600, Room 216 / 425-828-5196 Kenworth, CFI Team Ready To Race T2000 at Pikes Peak Tomorrow PIKES PEAK, Colo., June 29, 2001 - Final preparations are underway today by the Kenworth Truck Co. and Contract Freighters Inc. (CFI) race team for Saturday's ... Continue reading

NHRA FEDERAL-MOGUL DRAG RACING SERIES--Sears Point Raceway--Friday Results

NHRA FEDERAL-MOGUL DRAG RACING SERIES--Sears Point Raceway--Friday Results

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NHRA FEDERAL-MOGUL DRAG RACING SERIES--PACIFIC DIVISION SEARS POINT RACEWAY FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 2001 PAT AUSTIN, HENKELMAN LEAD QUALIFYING AT SEARS POINT RACEWAY SONOMA, Calif. -The more than 450 racers made their annual stop on the NHRA Pacific Division Federal-Mogul Drag Racing Series tour at the s ... Continue reading

U.S. Olympic Team Hopeful In Tulsa Surprised With New Vehicle To Help Support Olympic Dream

U.S. Olympic Team Hopeful In Tulsa Surprised With New Vehicle To Help Support Olympic Dream

FOR RELEASE: June 29, 2001 U.S. Olympic Team Hopeful In Tulsa Surprised With New Vehicle To Help Support Olympic Dream 40 Hopefuls Across the Nation Receive Chevrolet Vehicles TULSA -Dave Owens, Tulsa area native and U.S. Olympic Team hopeful in bobsledding, was surprised today by Riverside Chevrolet with a new Silvera ... Continue reading

Northern Light IRL: B. Lazier dominates Richmond race for second straight win

Northern Light IRL: B. Lazier dominates Richmond race for second straight win

July 1, 2001 RICHMOND, Va. - Buddy Lazier ruled the SunTrust Indy Challenge, leading an Indy Racing League-record 224 of 250 laps en route to a dominant victory June 30 at Richmond International Raceway. It was the second victory of the Indy Racing Northern Light Series season for Lazier, who also won the last race Jun ... Continue reading

GM Introduces Chevrolet Cruze For Asian Markets Compact lifestyle passenger car co-developed with Suzuki

GM Introduces Chevrolet Cruze For Asian Markets Compact lifestyle passenger car co-developed with Suzuki

General Motors Corp. today announced the name of its first passenger vehicle designed and manufactured in Asia for the Asia-Pacific market. The car, formerly known by the internal code YGM-1, will be called the "Cruze" and sold in Japan under the Chevrolet brand. This compact lifestyle car is very similar to the YGM-1 ... Continue reading

GRAND AM: Powell Corvette Earns Fourth-Consecutive Victory

GRAND AM: Powell Corvette Earns Fourth-Consecutive Victory

July 1, 2001 ALTON, Va. -- Powell Motorsports appears as if it cannot be stopped. The team picked up its fourth-consecutive victory at the Virginia Festival of Speed in the Grand-Am Cup Street Stock Series three-hour endurance race. Drivers Devon Powell, of Port Perry, Ont., and Doug Goad, of Farmington Hills, Mich., p ... Continue reading

CART: Andretti has to overcome poor qualifying luck at Cleveland

CART: Andretti has to overcome poor qualifying luck at Cleveland

July 1, 2001 Michael Andretti, No. 39 Motorola/Honda-Reynard &#8220;This is really tough. We got bit big time by the way qualifying is split but that&#8217;s the way it goes. It&#8217;s a shame, I don&#8217;t know how we would have done had it stayed dry but I certainly don&#8217;t think we&#8217;d have ended up 21st. ... Continue reading

NASCAR Trucks: Ford Racing GNC Live Well 200 Notes & Quotes

NASCAR Trucks: Ford Racing GNC Live Well 200 Notes & Quotes

July 1, 2001 TERRY COOK-29-K-Automotive Ford F-150 (Finished 4th) - YOU BROKE WHAT YOU EARLIER CALLED A SLUMP. "It was time to break the slump. We were long overdue. We've been running up front and we just haven't been able to put the finishes with our runs. Today was finally that day. ... Continue reading

CART: Gugelmin captures first pole since 1997 at Cleveland

CART: Gugelmin captures first pole since 1997 at Cleveland

July 1, 2001 CLEVELAND - Mauricio Gugelmin of the PacWest Racing Group earned his first FedEx Championship Series pole position since 1997 Saturday when he qualified fastest for Sunday's Marconi Grand Prix of Cleveland Presented by Firstar at Burke Lakefront Airport (1 p.m. ET, live, ABC-TV). Gugelmin (Nextel PacWest T ... Continue reading

CART: Gugelmin puts Toyota on pole at Cleveland

CART: Gugelmin puts Toyota on pole at Cleveland

July 1, 2001 MAURICIO GUGELMIN EARNS CLEVELAND POLE - Mauricio Gugelmin (Nextel Toyota) earned his fourth career pole position and his first since the season finale at Fontana in 1997 with a lap of more than 132 mph today in qualifying for Sunday's Marconi Grand Prix. He ran in the first of two qualifying groups and wa ... Continue reading

ASA: Butch Miller Collects Toledo ASA Pole

ASA: Butch Miller Collects Toledo ASA Pole

July 1, 2001 TOLEDO, Ohio &#8211; American Speed Association National Championship points leader Butch Miller, while still looking for his first win in the 2001 season, continued to show his dominance in qualifying, picking up his fourth pole of the 2001 seas on for Sunday&#8217;s Glass City 300 at Toledo Speedway. Mil ... Continue reading

CART: Marconi GP of Cleveland Starting Lineup

CART: Marconi GP of Cleveland Starting Lineup

July 1, 2001 CLEVELAND -- Starting grid for Sunday's Marconi Grand Prix of Cleveland Presented by Firstar FedEx Championship Series race at Burke Lakefront Airport, with car number in parentheses, driver, type of car, time in seconds, and speed in miles per hour: 1. (17) Mauricio Gugelmin, Toyota Reynard, 57.356, 132.1 ... Continue reading

NASCAR Trucks: Musgrave beats Sprague to finish line in Milwaukee

NASCAR Trucks: Musgrave beats Sprague to finish line in Milwaukee

July 1, 2001 There is good news for Silverado Racing coming out of today¹s race, despite the fact that Jack Sprague dominated 170 of the 200 laps yet came in second. Because series¹ points leader (coming into this race) Scott Riggs finished in 24th place as a result of a broken right-front hub, the points gap among t ... Continue reading

Northern Light IRL: Indy Racing schedule set for 14 races in 2002

Northern Light IRL: Indy Racing schedule set for 14 races in 2002

July 1, 2001 RICHMOND, Va. - With new events at Michigan International Speedway and Nazareth Speedway, officials of the Indy Racing League announced a 14-race schedule for the 2002 Indy Racing Northern Light Series on June 30. The 2002 Indy Racing season will mark the seventh season of competition for the Indianapolis- ... Continue reading

USAC: Aaron Fike becomes youngest winner in Coors Light Silver Bullet history

USAC: Aaron Fike becomes youngest winner in Coors Light Silver Bullet history

July 1, 2001 Aaron Fike, at age 18, became the youngest winner in the history of the USAC Coors Light Silver Bullet Series Saturday evening as he won the "Dominic's of New York 100" at Richmond (Va.) International Raceway. Fike surpasses Jeff Gordon, who at age 19, won a similar race at Phoenix, Ariz. in 1991. "I was r ... Continue reading

TRANS AM: Tommy Bahama/Tom Gloy Racing entry finishes 6th at Cleveland

TRANS AM: Tommy Bahama/Tom Gloy Racing entry finishes 6th at Cleveland

July 1, 2001 CLEVELAND -- The 2001 BFGoodrich Trans-Am Series continued today, in the fifth of eleven races, at Clevelandâ€&#8482;s temporary racetrack at the Burke Lakefront Airport. Tom Gloy Racing fielded two entries in the BFGoodrich Tires Cup Trans-Am Series. The 2000 Trans-Am Champion, Brian Simo, finished sixt ... Continue reading

CART: Arciero-Blair Driver Max Wilson Starts 3rd at Cleveland

CART: Arciero-Blair Driver Max Wilson Starts 3rd at Cleveland

July 1, 2001 "I am so proud to be part of this new team," said Wilson. "This is a tough track, Iâ€&#8482;m learning the track and the team is learning the track. We made a lot of changes to the car after the practice and I think our time would have still put us in the top-ten or top-twelve starting positions. Our qua ... Continue reading

TRANS AM: Gentilozzi Picks Up Third Consecutive Victory At Cleveland

TRANS AM: Gentilozzi Picks Up Third Consecutive Victory At Cleveland

July 1, 2001 Cleveland - Paul Gentilozzi (#3 Johnson Controls HomeLink Jaguar XKR) scored his third consecutive victory of the season this afternoon in the Trans-Am Series 100 presented by Simple Green. With the win, Gentilozzi moved past Bob Tullius into third on the All-Time victory list with 22 career wins. The race ... Continue reading

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