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Vehicles are Lining Up for ACT Expo 2011

Vehicles are Lining Up for ACT Expo 2011

ACT Expo May 4-7, 2011 Long Beach Convention Center, Long Beach, CA (http://www.actexpo.com) Looking for Options? Attend ACT Expo for a comprehensive look at ways to save money and increase energy independence. Diesel prices have been on the rise for 15 weeks straight with no end in sight. What are you doing to examine ... Continue reading

Chrysler Group First Quarter (Q1) 2011 Preliminary Financial Results Analyst Webcast, Monday, May 2, 2011

Chrysler Group First Quarter (Q1) 2011 Preliminary Financial Results Analyst Webcast, Monday, May 2, 2011

AUBURN HILLS, Mich., April 25, 2011 AUBURN HILLS, Mich., April 25, 2011 -- Chrysler Group will host an analyst webcast and conference call to review and discuss its preliminary first quarter (Q1) 2011 financial results on Monday, May 2, 2011, at 10 a.m. ET / 3 p.m. UK/ 4 p.m. CET. For webcast access, go to http://www.c ... Continue reading

Lifelong Mechanic Shares Money Saving Advice in New Book

Lifelong Mechanic Shares Money Saving Advice in New Book

Lifelong Mechanic Shares Money Saving Advice in New Book "Don't Let Your Mechanic Pick Your Pocket"! by George A. Moyer educates readers before car breaks down by guiding them through common noises and vibrations. RINGOES, N.J. April 26, 2011 -- "Don't Let Your Mechanic Pick Your Pocket!: A Simple Guide That Can Save Y ... Continue reading

Indy 300 Postponed Due To Rain In Sao Paulo

Indy 300 Postponed Due To Rain In Sao Paulo

IndyCar has postponed the Indy 300 until 8:05 a.m. (Eastern) Monday, May 2 due to weather. The race will resume on lap 15 with one hour, 19 minutes remaining in the two-hour race time limit. ... Continue reading

Allstate Urges Response to Auto Insurance Fraud Crisis in New York State Following Hearing of the NYS Senate Insurance Committee

Allstate Urges Response to Auto Insurance Fraud Crisis in New York State Following Hearing of the NYS Senate Insurance Committee

HAUPPAUGE, N.Y., April 26, 2011 HAUPPAUGE, N.Y., April 26, 2011 -- Following today's hearing of the NYS Senate Insurance Committee, Allstate, one of the state's leading providers of auto insurance, urges legislators to respond to the auto insurance fraud crisis. Immediately following today's hearing, Krista Conte, New ... Continue reading

Nationwide Insurance Providing Humanitarian Relief to Alabama Tornado Victims

Nationwide Insurance Providing Humanitarian Relief to Alabama Tornado Victims

TUSCALOOSA, Ala.--Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. is distributing humanitarian aid items to the victims of recent tornados at locations in Tuscaloosa, Birmingham, Huntsville and Cullman, Alabama. The temporary aid stations are located at the offices of four Nationwide agents near some of the worst devastation. Location ... Continue reading

Daskalos, Musser and Povoledo Earn Pirelli World Challenge Wins In Utah

Daskalos, Musser and Povoledo Earn Pirelli World Challenge Wins In Utah

TOOELE, May 1, 2011) – Round Four of the 2011 Pirelli World Challenge Championships featured a crash on the standing start, two new winners, a new championship leader, and plenty of passes. When the dust settled at Miller Motorsports Park and the Pirelli World Challenge Grand Prix of Utah presented by Bondurant, J ... Continue reading

Tony Stewart Richmond Race Report

Tony Stewart Richmond Race Report

Richmond, May 1, 2011: It was far from glamorous, but the ninth-place finish Tony Stewart earned in Saturday night’s Crown Royal 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Richmond (Va.) International Raceway was perhaps one of the hardest earned top-10s of his 13-year Sprint Cup career. The driver of the No. 14 Mobil 1 ... Continue reading

Loyet Produces Midget Victory At Lucas Oil Speedway

Loyet Produces Midget Victory At Lucas Oil Speedway

WHEATLAND, May 1, 2011) Brad Loyet made a difficult outside pass of Zach Daum for the lead midway through the Missouri Mid-State Midget Nationals and went unchallenged the rest of the way to win the POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget race on Saturday at Lucas Oil Speedway. Loyet, of Sunset Hills, Mo., had run in second pl ... Continue reading

Smith Finishes 17th in Richmond

Smith Finishes 17th in Richmond

RICHMOND, May 1, 2011: Regan Smith drove a steady race as he posted a 17th-place result in Saturday night's Sprint Cup race at Richmond International Raceway. It was Smith's best finish in six career starts at the .75-mile short track. Smith, who started on the outside pole, ran solidly in the top 10 for the first 80 l ... Continue reading

Toyota NNS Richmond Post-Race Notes & Quotes

Toyota NNS Richmond Post-Race Notes & Quotes

Camry driver Denny Hamlin won Friday night's NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) race at Virginia's Richmond International Raceway. The Chesterfield, Va.-native led three times for 199 laps (of 251) to earn his 11th career NNS victory, and his sixth in a Camry. The win was the fifth of the 2011 season for Toyota and the 59t ... Continue reading

Ave Captures Trans-Am Series Pole At Miller Motorsport Park

Ave Captures Trans-Am Series Pole At Miller Motorsport Park

TOOELE, April 30, 2011: Tony Ave, of Maiden, N.C., captured his first SCCA Pro Racing Trans-Am Series pole of the year at Miller Motorsports Park, part of the Larry H. Miller Dealerships Grand Prix of Utah. RJ Lopez, of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, will start second. Tony AveWith temperatures near freezing, Ave d ... Continue reading

Scott Anderson Grabs Second Pole At Virginia International Raceway

Scott Anderson Grabs Second Pole At Virginia International Raceway

Danville, Apr. 30, 2011: Sophomore racer Scott Anderson earned his second California Scents pole of the season in the BFGoodrich/Skip Barber National presented by Mazda. Anderson will be leading the field to green tomorrow for Round 4 with championship points leader Brandon Newey starting second and MAZDASPEED Motorspo ... Continue reading

Malkhassian Sweeps From Third To First On Final Lap To Win MX-5 Cup Thriller

Malkhassian Sweeps From Third To First On Final Lap To Win MX-5 Cup Thriller

BRASELTON, April 30, 2011: Ara Malkhassian, of Houston, Texas, only led the 45-minute second round of the 2011 SCCA Pro Racing Playboy Mazda MX-5 Cup Series at Road Atlanta for maybe last 15 seconds, but that’s all it took to give the series’ all-time starts leader his second career MX-5 Cup victory. Driving ... Continue reading

Keith Carroll Takes The Opening Cayman Interseries At Road Atlanta

Keith Carroll Takes The Opening Cayman Interseries At Road Atlanta

BRASELTON, April 30, 2011: Keith Carroll took the lead from his outside front row starting spot and never looked back for a flag-to-flag victory in Saturday’s opening Cayman Interseries sprint race of The Mitty weekend at Road Atlanta. Carroll, who drives his 901 Shop-prepared No. 55 Cayman S that displays the cla ... Continue reading

Heinemeier/Hansson Recover To Finish In Utah

Heinemeier/Hansson Recover To Finish In Utah

SALT LAKE CITY, April 30, 2011: David Heinemeier Hansson and Porsche Napleton Racing (PNR) recovered from a repeat race-start contact incident from the same competitor who hit them last month at Sebring to finish Saturday’s IMSA GT3 Cup Challenge by Yokohama in the No. 37 Porsche Napleton Racing/37signals Porsche ... Continue reading

Chrysler Group Announces Refinancing Transaction

Chrysler Group Announces Refinancing Transaction

AUBURN HILLS, Mich., April 28, 2011 AUBURN HILLS, Mich., April 28, 2011 -- Chrysler Group LLC ("Chrysler Group") announced today that it intends, subject to market and other conditions, to repay in full the outstanding obligations under the loans provided to Chrysler Group by the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the ... Continue reading

Edelbrock '57 Chevy Built by College Student

Edelbrock '57 Chevy Built by College Student

OHIO TECHNICAL COLLEGE STUDENTS BUILD '57 CHEVROLET BEL AIR FOR VIC EDELBROCK Custom Car Represents School's New Edelbrock Academy Program CLEVELAND, Ohio - Ohio Technical College (OTC) students have been diligently building a custom 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air that will be given to aftermarket industry veteran Vic Edelbroc ... Continue reading

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