Nominations for the 2013 SEMA Chair-Elect and Board of Directors are now open. Nominations are due Thursday, January 3, 2013.

The following is a message from SEMA President Chris Kersting:

As a member of the Association, we need your recommendation of industry leaders to serve on the SEMA Board of Directors. Our industry has many individuals who would be an asset to the SEMA Board, but oftentimes those individuals are not immediately apparent to the committee that is responsible for selecting the final candidates.

This year, the SEMA elections have the additional importance in selecting our future Chairman of the Board. Please take a moment and tell us about whom you would recommend as a potential nominee for the Chairman-Elect position, and/or for a Board member position. Please include information to help the nominating committee know more about the qualifications of the nominee, such as background, experience and achievements from a leadership standpoint.

Nominations for the 2013 SEMA Chair-Elect and Board of Directors are due Thursday, January 3, 2013. Please complete and submit the nomination form, and be sure to include the qualification information noted above.

SEMA Board of Directors Nomination Form

Your Association is vitally important to the industry and your company. Your participation in helping to ensure strong leadership for the SEMA Board of Directors is essential.

Thank you for your attention to this important request.

Chris Kersting, CAE
SEMA President and CEO

Nominations for the 2013 SEMA Chair-Elect and Board of Directors are now open. Nominations are due Thursday, January 3, 2013.

The following is a message from SEMA President Chris Kersting:

As a member of the Association, we need your recommendation of industry leaders to serve on the SEMA Board of Directors. Our industry has many individuals who would be an asset to the SEMA Board, but oftentimes those individuals are not immediately apparent to the committee that is responsible for selecting the final candidates.

This year, the SEMA elections have the additional importance in selecting our future Chairman of the Board. Please take a moment and tell us about whom you would recommend as a potential nominee for the Chairman-Elect position, and/or for a Board member position. Please include information to help the nominating committee know more about the qualifications of the nominee, such as background, experience and achievements from a leadership standpoint.

Nominations for the 2013 SEMA Chair-Elect and Board of Directors are due Thursday, January 3, 2013. Please complete and submit the nomination form, and be sure to include the qualification information noted above.

SEMA Board of Directors Nomination Form

Your Association is vitally important to the industry and your company. Your participation in helping to ensure strong leadership for the SEMA Board of Directors is essential.

Thank you for your attention to this important request.

Chris Kersting, CAE
SEMA President and CEO

Nominations for the 2013 SEMA Chair-Elect and Board of Directors are now open. Nominations are due Thursday, January 3, 2013.

The following is a message from SEMA President Chris Kersting:

As a member of the Association, we need your recommendation of industry leaders to serve on the SEMA Board of Directors. Our industry has many individuals who would be an asset to the SEMA Board, but oftentimes those individuals are not immediately apparent to the committee that is responsible for selecting the final candidates.

This year, the SEMA elections have the additional importance in selecting our future Chairman of the Board. Please take a moment and tell us about whom you would recommend as a potential nominee for the Chairman-Elect position, and/or for a Board member position. Please include information to help the nominating committee know more about the qualifications of the nominee, such as background, experience and achievements from a leadership standpoint.

Nominations for the 2013 SEMA Chair-Elect and Board of Directors are due Thursday, January 3, 2013. Please complete and submit the nomination form, and be sure to include the qualification information noted above.

SEMA Board of Directors Nomination Form

Your Association is vitally important to the industry and your company. Your participation in helping to ensure strong leadership for the SEMA Board of Directors is essential.

Thank you for your attention to this important request.

Chris Kersting, CAE
SEMA President and CEO

Nominations for the 2013 SEMA Chair-Elect and Board of Directors are now open. Nominations are due Thursday, January 3, 2013.

The following is a message from SEMA President Chris Kersting:

As a member of the Association, we need your recommendation of industry leaders to serve on the SEMA Board of Directors. Our industry has many individuals who would be an asset to the SEMA Board, but oftentimes those individuals are not immediately apparent to the committee that is responsible for selecting the final candidates.

This year, the SEMA elections have the additional importance in selecting our future Chairman of the Board. Please take a moment and tell us about whom you would recommend as a potential nominee for the Chairman-Elect position, and/or for a Board member position. Please include information to help the nominating committee know more about the qualifications of the nominee, such as background, experience and achievements from a leadership standpoint.

Nominations for the 2013 SEMA Chair-Elect and Board of Directors are due Thursday, January 3, 2013. Please complete and submit the nomination form, and be sure to include the qualification information noted above.

SEMA Board of Directors Nomination Form

Your Association is vitally important to the industry and your company. Your participation in helping to ensure strong leadership for the SEMA Board of Directors is essential.

Thank you for your attention to this important request.

Chris Kersting, CAE
SEMA President and CEO

Nominations for the 2013 SEMA Chair-Elect and Board of Directors are now open. Nominations are due Thursday, January 3, 2013.

The following is a message from SEMA President Chris Kersting:

As a member of the Association, we need your recommendation of industry leaders to serve on the SEMA Board of Directors. Our industry has many individuals who would be an asset to the SEMA Board, but oftentimes those individuals are not immediately apparent to the committee that is responsible for selecting the final candidates.

This year, the SEMA elections have the additional importance in selecting our future Chairman of the Board. Please take a moment and tell us about whom you would recommend as a potential nominee for the Chairman-Elect position, and/or for a Board member position. Please include information to help the nominating committee know more about the qualifications of the nominee, such as background, experience and achievements from a leadership standpoint.

Nominations for the 2013 SEMA Chair-Elect and Board of Directors are due Thursday, January 3, 2013. Please complete and submit the nomination form, and be sure to include the qualification information noted above.

SEMA Board of Directors Nomination Form

Your Association is vitally important to the industry and your company. Your participation in helping to ensure strong leadership for the SEMA Board of Directors is essential.

Thank you for your attention to this important request.

Chris Kersting, CAE
SEMA President and CEO

Nominations for the 2013 SEMA Chair-Elect and Board of Directors are now open. Nominations are due Thursday, January 3, 2013.

The following is a message from SEMA President Chris Kersting:

As a member of the Association, we need your recommendation of industry leaders to serve on the SEMA Board of Directors. Our industry has many individuals who would be an asset to the SEMA Board, but oftentimes those individuals are not immediately apparent to the committee that is responsible for selecting the final candidates.

This year, the SEMA elections have the additional importance in selecting our future Chairman of the Board. Please take a moment and tell us about whom you would recommend as a potential nominee for the Chairman-Elect position, and/or for a Board member position. Please include information to help the nominating committee know more about the qualifications of the nominee, such as background, experience and achievements from a leadership standpoint.

Nominations for the 2013 SEMA Chair-Elect and Board of Directors are due Thursday, January 3, 2013. Please complete and submit the nomination form, and be sure to include the qualification information noted above.

SEMA Board of Directors Nomination Form

Your Association is vitally important to the industry and your company. Your participation in helping to ensure strong leadership for the SEMA Board of Directors is essential.

Thank you for your attention to this important request.

Chris Kersting, CAE
SEMA President and CEO

	Galpin Ford will now install the LoJack Stolen Vehicle Recovery System on Galpin Ford's entire fleet of vehicles.

Galpin Ford Enters Agreement With LoJack
The LoJack Corp., through an agreement with Galpin Ford, will install LoJack Stolen Vehicle Recovery Systems on Galpin’s fleet of vehicles. LoJack reports that this is the largest agreement of its kind that the company has established with a single dealer. Under the agreement, LoJack will also provide value-added services in dedicated training, installation and marketing. The agreement includes the following: Representatives on-site at Galpin Ford to deliver personalized training on the LoJack System to Galpin’s entire sales staff;  a team of certified installation representatives on-site at Galpin Ford to install the LoJack System in the dealership’s fleet; LoJack will work with Galpin representatives on several initiatives, including analyzing customer traffic flow, to provide insights into what attracts customers’ attention within the dealership; and the LoJack Corp. will develop customized, co-branded collateral on the LoJack System that will enable Galpin to distribute educational marketing materials to customers.

Source Interlink Promotes Jordan Mastagni to Editor-in-Chief of Baggers
Source Interlink Media has promoted Jordan Mastagni to editor-in-chief of Baggers, a publication within the American Motorcycle Group. Mastagni began his tenure in motorcycle journalism in October 2006, when he began working as an editorial assistant for Hot Bike, Street Chopper and Hot Rod’s Bike Works. Within six months, he was promoted to associate editor of Hot Bike. In late 2010, Mastagni was promoted to senior editor of Hot Bike. He was moved to Baggers this past May, where he served as editor until this most recent promotion.

Holley Launches NOS Installation and Tuning Videos
Holley Performance Products launched NOS Nitrous Oxide Systems installation and tuning videos on YouTube. A total of 18 videos are available and cover a wide variety of subjects, including how nitrous oxide works; complete kit overviews; installation details; operation; tuning and more. These videos include animations as well as step-by-step, underhood video footage to help viewers learn more about nitrous-oxide use. View the videos Holley Performance Products’ YouTube channel.

	“Double Dozen,” a hand-built roadster with a design based on a ’33 Ford, was recently added to the Petersen Automotive Museum's world-class collection. “Victoria” is an immaculate ’63 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud III previously owned by four-time Emmy-Award-winning director John Frankenheimer.

The Petersen Automotive Museum recently received two vehicles to add to its world-class collection of more than 400 vehicles—“Double Dozen,” a hand-built roadster with a design based on a ’33 Ford, and “Victoria,” an immaculate ’63 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud III.

The late Jeffrey Chandler, a descendant of the family that built the Los Angeles Times, commissioned a hot rod design by Chris Ito and Steve Frisbee and built by Steve’s Auto Restorations. “Double Dozen” was created to compete for “America’s Most Beautiful Roadster” (AMBR) in the 2011 Grand National Roadster Show, the longest running indoor car show in the world. The handcrafted hot rod won Outstanding Paint, Outstanding Interior, Outstanding Engineering, Outstanding Undercarriage, and Outstanding Display, and went on to win the Goodguys Streetrod d’Elegance 2011.

Four-time Emmy Award winner John Frankenheimer, director of 51 different films, including iconic car movies, such as Grand Prix (1966) and Ronin (1998), was a dyed in the wool “car guy.” While filming The Train (1964) on location in France, Frankenheimer took his wife to London to buy some clothing. After visiting the tailor, the couple walked in the pouring rain to visit a Rolls-Royce dealer. The dealer had one Rolls-Royce and one Bentley. The Rolls-Royce was a better fit for Frankenheimer and his wife, so the two ordered a bespoke model right on the spot. They paid for the car in French francs, and because it was the weekend, the banks were closed and the dealer did not have a safe, the cash was locked in the gloveboxes of the cars in the showroom.

“Victoria” (named after the Queen) has spent nearly 50 years in the family’s service, including four trips to Europe and travel to movie sets around the world. Victoria joins several other vehicles the Frankenheimer’s have donated to the museum, including a 1947 Oldsmobile, and a custom pair of matching Mercedes-Benzes.

“We are thrilled to receive both of these outstanding donations,” said Petersen Automotive Museum Chief Curator Leslie Kendall. “Not only are they beautiful vehicles, but they are also important because of the stories that they can help tell about two local families that have had influence around the world.”

Both vehicles have been placed on exhibition in places of honor within the Petersen Automotive Museum. “Double Dozen” is showcased in the hot-rod exhibit in the Bruce Meyer Gallery. “Victoria” is one of the stars in the museum’s popular Hollywood Gallery.

	“Double Dozen,” a hand-built roadster with a design based on a ’33 Ford, was recently added to the Petersen Automotive Museum's world-class collection. “Victoria” is an immaculate ’63 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud III previously owned by four-time Emmy-Award-winning director John Frankenheimer.

The Petersen Automotive Museum recently received two vehicles to add to its world-class collection of more than 400 vehicles—“Double Dozen,” a hand-built roadster with a design based on a ’33 Ford, and “Victoria,” an immaculate ’63 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud III.

The late Jeffrey Chandler, a descendant of the family that built the Los Angeles Times, commissioned a hot rod design by Chris Ito and Steve Frisbee and built by Steve’s Auto Restorations. “Double Dozen” was created to compete for “America’s Most Beautiful Roadster” (AMBR) in the 2011 Grand National Roadster Show, the longest running indoor car show in the world. The handcrafted hot rod won Outstanding Paint, Outstanding Interior, Outstanding Engineering, Outstanding Undercarriage, and Outstanding Display, and went on to win the Goodguys Streetrod d’Elegance 2011.

Four-time Emmy Award winner John Frankenheimer, director of 51 different films, including iconic car movies, such as Grand Prix (1966) and Ronin (1998), was a dyed in the wool “car guy.” While filming The Train (1964) on location in France, Frankenheimer took his wife to London to buy some clothing. After visiting the tailor, the couple walked in the pouring rain to visit a Rolls-Royce dealer. The dealer had one Rolls-Royce and one Bentley. The Rolls-Royce was a better fit for Frankenheimer and his wife, so the two ordered a bespoke model right on the spot. They paid for the car in French francs, and because it was the weekend, the banks were closed and the dealer did not have a safe, the cash was locked in the gloveboxes of the cars in the showroom.

“Victoria” (named after the Queen) has spent nearly 50 years in the family’s service, including four trips to Europe and travel to movie sets around the world. Victoria joins several other vehicles the Frankenheimer’s have donated to the museum, including a 1947 Oldsmobile, and a custom pair of matching Mercedes-Benzes.

“We are thrilled to receive both of these outstanding donations,” said Petersen Automotive Museum Chief Curator Leslie Kendall. “Not only are they beautiful vehicles, but they are also important because of the stories that they can help tell about two local families that have had influence around the world.”

Both vehicles have been placed on exhibition in places of honor within the Petersen Automotive Museum. “Double Dozen” is showcased in the hot-rod exhibit in the Bruce Meyer Gallery. “Victoria” is one of the stars in the museum’s popular Hollywood Gallery.

	“Double Dozen,” a hand-built roadster with a design based on a ’33 Ford, was recently added to the Petersen Automotive Museum's world-class collection. “Victoria” is an immaculate ’63 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud III previously owned by four-time Emmy-Award-winning director John Frankenheimer.

The Petersen Automotive Museum recently received two vehicles to add to its world-class collection of more than 400 vehicles—“Double Dozen,” a hand-built roadster with a design based on a ’33 Ford, and “Victoria,” an immaculate ’63 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud III.

The late Jeffrey Chandler, a descendant of the family that built the Los Angeles Times, commissioned a hot rod design by Chris Ito and Steve Frisbee and built by Steve’s Auto Restorations. “Double Dozen” was created to compete for “America’s Most Beautiful Roadster” (AMBR) in the 2011 Grand National Roadster Show, the longest running indoor car show in the world. The handcrafted hot rod won Outstanding Paint, Outstanding Interior, Outstanding Engineering, Outstanding Undercarriage, and Outstanding Display, and went on to win the Goodguys Streetrod d’Elegance 2011.

Four-time Emmy Award winner John Frankenheimer, director of 51 different films, including iconic car movies, such as Grand Prix (1966) and Ronin (1998), was a dyed in the wool “car guy.” While filming The Train (1964) on location in France, Frankenheimer took his wife to London to buy some clothing. After visiting the tailor, the couple walked in the pouring rain to visit a Rolls-Royce dealer. The dealer had one Rolls-Royce and one Bentley. The Rolls-Royce was a better fit for Frankenheimer and his wife, so the two ordered a bespoke model right on the spot. They paid for the car in French francs, and because it was the weekend, the banks were closed and the dealer did not have a safe, the cash was locked in the gloveboxes of the cars in the showroom.

“Victoria” (named after the Queen) has spent nearly 50 years in the family’s service, including four trips to Europe and travel to movie sets around the world. Victoria joins several other vehicles the Frankenheimer’s have donated to the museum, including a 1947 Oldsmobile, and a custom pair of matching Mercedes-Benzes.

“We are thrilled to receive both of these outstanding donations,” said Petersen Automotive Museum Chief Curator Leslie Kendall. “Not only are they beautiful vehicles, but they are also important because of the stories that they can help tell about two local families that have had influence around the world.”

Both vehicles have been placed on exhibition in places of honor within the Petersen Automotive Museum. “Double Dozen” is showcased in the hot-rod exhibit in the Bruce Meyer Gallery. “Victoria” is one of the stars in the museum’s popular Hollywood Gallery.