Keep Up With Unique and Interesting Automotive Tales -

Keep Up With Unique and Interesting Automotive Tales

Check out Fast Eddie’s Blog at: www.underhoodservice.com/blog.

Check out Fast Eddie’s Blog at: www.underhoodservice.com/blog.

Ed Sunkin, editor of Underhood Service and Tomorrow’s Technician, is an aftermarket industry veteran of nearly 15 years and writes Fast Eddie’s Blog. Here are some of the topics covered recently in Fast Eddie’s Blog. You can read more on these topics and others by logging on to the link noted above:

 

• Gala ‘Night at the Museum’ To Kick Start AACA Hershey Fall Meet — This year’s event will again be built around the museum’s outstanding range of automotive exhibitions – one presenting a chronological history of automobiles over the past nine decades.

 

• Book Report: “The Complete Book of Dodge and Plymouth Muscle”— This book is much more than just a car enthusiast publication, but an informative shop reference guide.

 

• World-Class Design for a New Eco-Friendly Race Track Unveiled by Atlanta Motorsports Park — This track will be the only design of its kind in the United States, and the only sustainable Motorsports track in the world.

 

• A Landmark in Rubber History Closes its Doors — Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company closed its corporate ‘World of Rubber’ museum in August.

 

• The Jeep Served Us Well, But It Was Time To Go — Why we felt it best to take advantage of the “Cash For Clunkers” program.

 

• Will the Volt ‘Charge Up’ GM Car Sales?— General Motors announced huge MPG numbers for its Extended-Range Electric Vehicle. But is the general public ready for this ride?

 

• 1962 Corvette Takes “Street Machine of the Year” Award — While the car looks like a Corvette and would be easily identified as one, it retains very few original components and is nothing like anything that ever came off an assembly line.

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