The 2017 C/10 Club Toy Drive

What a great day at the Pomona Swap Meet. Several chapters of the C/10 Community came together to donate toys for the Spark of Love Toy Drive. As you can see they filled the biggest truck they had, a slammed GMC Custom 25 Hundred four door. A big shout out to fellow Merciful, John Oro […]

Prestone Celebrates 90 Years

A Birthday Party At The Petersen Automotive Museum The name has been around for a long time. I never realized how long Prestone has been around. Since I owned Blacktop Depot – an automotive memorabilia store in Orange, CA – Prestone branded porcelain signs, cans and storefront thermometers came from and went to collectors around […]

The Automotive Aftermarket

A SEMA 2017 Report Commentary: Tony Colombini, Photos: Blacktop Media Network Staff There was quite a bit of talk among the aisles of the 2017 SEMA Show regarding the future of the automobile industry. And no doubt plenty of those discussions involved Autonomous cars. One question was: Who was going to own these cars? Will […]

Historic Bothwell Collection 100% SOLD

Peugeot L45 Grand Prix Racer makes a world record, as does the Benz Prinz Heinrich Raceabout, and more; Auction achieves more than $13.7-million 12 November 2017 – It’s the last of the kind – a self-contained 16-acre working citrus farm, ringed with towering palm trees, sprinkled with WWII-era ranch buildings, situated just over the hill […]