Law and Order is an update of some of the most recent federal and state legislative and regulatory issues that could potentially impact the automotive specialty-equipment industry. These include issues affecting small-business owners and their employees.
On May 14, 2010, Dorian Comeau, a co-owner of House of Boost in Lenexa, Kansas, was severely injured while testing a vehicle the company had built. The injury left him paralyzed from the neck down. Earlier fundraising efforts among friends and industry colleagues helped the Comeau family toward covering staggering health care and related costs of his injuries.
Although primarily a motorsports museum that displays everything from early dry-lake race cars to modern top-fuel dragsters, the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum in Pomona, California, had long desired to host a stars' cars and guitars exhibit. The necessary impetus came with the 60th anniversary of the Fender Telecaster guitar. According to Cris Mirabella of Mirabella Guitars, "The Telecaster laid the groundwork for many of the modern custom designs of today. And even with all of these modern concepts, the original design still remains a very valid and needed instrument." [Read more]
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