Autobody Tapestries
Description: There’s no shortage of auto repair shops in Mexico City, but if you want with style, check out Estilo Callejero Servicio Automotriz (Street Style Automotive Service). Sure, they do everything the other shops do like tune ups and rebuilds, but they do the cool stuff too. Taking some cues from their East L.A. relatives, Estilo Callejero can take your American cruiser and transform it into the lowrider of your dreams. From polished wire rollers and custom hydros to wild metal flake paint and body mods, they can make it happen and have been doing it since 1982.
Description: If you've spent much time around auto body, powder coating, or metal working shops, you're probably familiar with media blasting. And if you've been around a little longer than most, you've seen (or maybe used) a Zero Blast-N-Peen, one of the older media blasters that's been stripping and prepping surfaces since 1946!
Description: Ernest Holmes Sr. was a mechanic in Chattanooga, Tennessee who is credited with inventing the tow truck in 1916. After helping a friend recover his car using three poles, a pulley and a chain hooked to the chassis of his 1913 sedan, Holmes realized that his contraption could be useful beyond just this one need. After refining his invention, Holmes began manufacturing what we now know as the traditional tow truck or wrecker, receiving a patent on his design in 1918. Holmes sold both turn key tow trucks and the wrecker body as a bolt on unit to auto shops, racetracks, and garages, and went on to design a multitude of tow truck offerings, covering just about every recovery need, including heavy-duty use by the U.S. military.
