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SEMA Show Opens in Las Vegas

LAS VEGAS — The temple of horsepower reopens here this week, and once again the faithful will be allowed inside to worship the automobile.

The annual Specialty Equipment Market Association trade show usually draws more than 100,000 people during its four-day run, which starts Tuesday.

Detroit Street Rods Raises $200,000 For Type 1 Diabetes Research

DETROIT, Mich. Aug. 27, 2007 – The Detroit Street Rods raised $200,000 for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), the world’s largest charitable funder of type 1 diabetes research, during the 75th Anniversary celebration of the 1932 Ford Deuce and Ford Flathead, held in Dearborn, Mich., on Aug. 9-12, 2007. A ceremony was held at the historic Edsel and Eleanor Ford House on Aug. 12 where Edsel B. Ford II, the event’s host and long-time supporter of JDRF, received a check on behalf of JDRF for $200,000 to the organization’s mission to find a cure for diabetes.

A Brand-New Deuce -from Ford!

Some 75 years ago, as we all know so well,the Ford Motor Company introduced an all-new model: crisply styled and nicely evolved from the car it replaced, its biggest news was the V8 it carried under its hood. Today, of course, it's the quintessential hot rod, built both from increasingly rare original steel bodies, and from increasingly easier- to-find reproduction parts. But should you care to buy one, rather than build one, why not do as your father or grandfather might have done, and buy yours directly from Ford?