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    • Cooling, Heating & Electrical
    • Engine & Transmission
    • Maintenance & Preventive Care
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    • Night Drop
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    • Diagnostics & Specialty Repairs
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Yearly Archives: 2017

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Tom's Blog

From vehicle maintenance to community issues, Tom covers what matters to drivers in Portland.

Tom’s Tidbits- We’ve been in Sellwood 30 years. With your help, we’ll be here 30 more!

Greetings, Why would any sane person start their own business?  The romantic notion is of a driven entrepreneur working well

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Keith Tucker is back in the What NOW?!! Toons drivers’ seat!

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30 years in Sellwood! It’s been 30 years in Sellwood. Let’s do 30 more!

On October 7, 1987, Tom Dwyer wrote the first rent check for a tiny part of a building at SE

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Here’s What Effective Journalism Looks Like A feel-good story about things working like they should. Sort of.

People can only act to fix things in our world when they know about them, but it seems like solid,

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Where The Rubber Meets The Road Tire Basics boot camp

Tire Basics Boot Camp Where the rubber meets the road (updated 6/12/25) Did you know we sell tires?  We do,

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Drew’s Kitchen- Burger Bomb Sliders

Thanksgiving is horrifyingly close, so it’s time to start thinking about what you’ll bring to dinner. Let your relatives bring

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Shop Talk- Ken makes a client cry, and your chance to VOTE for Referral Reward

      Comment of the Month If you look at the results from our Post-Service Feedback Cards, 99.89% of

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Health Notes- The Health effects of Anniversaries

Did you know that anniversaries can impact your health? The observance of events from days gone by can have real

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Book Spotlight- “5 Books To Make You Less Stupid About The Civil War” by Ta-Nehisi Coates

You learn something new every day. In recent weeks, we’ve ‘learned’ new things about the Civil War that weren’t taught

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Humorousness- Anniversaries… the ultimate setup for jokes

It’s a rare person who escapes our shop without hearing Service Advisor Dean’s joke about “The Three Rings of Marriage…

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Popcorn Shorts for October and November, 2017

Just like it says, Popcorn Shorts is about the kind of things we think are really interesting, but don’t really

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News To Make You Furious- Genocide. But don’t worry, it’s just a small one.

According to GenocideWatch.org, there are 5 genocides happening right now (Syria, Sudan, Congo, Ethiopia, and Burma), 6 imminent ones, and

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