Dunedin Radiator & Auto Repair/Auto Sales

These students are learning how to fix cars. Along the way, they're discovering that sometimes fixing a car can help fix a whole lot more. ❤️

Students at Louisa County High School in Virginia are using their automotive classes to repair donated vehicles for local single mothers.

The school partners with the nonprofit Giving Words, which provides the finished cars to families completely free of charge.

The charity was founded in 2018 by Eddie and Ginny Brown after they realised that one problem repeatedly stood between single mothers and greater independence:

transportation.

Without reliable transport, getting to work, attending college, reaching medical appointments and simply looking after a family can become considerably harder.

What began with Eddie repairing cars in his own driveway has since grown across Virginia, with more than 60 vehicles donated to the organisation.

Now high-school students including Owen Yarrington and Stephen Smith are helping get those cars safely back on the road.

For the teenagers, these aren't simply classroom projects.

They know somebody will eventually be putting their children in the car they're repairing, so every bolt and every repair has to be done properly.

And they get to meet some of the people whose lives their work changes.

“When they tear up and cry,” Owen said, “it makes you want to tear up and cry.”

Their teacher, Shane Robertson, understands the significance particularly well.

He's a former student of the same automotive program who returned to teach the next generation.

As he puts it, “It's not just a car. It's not just nuts and bolts. It's literally the difference between someone making it and someone not.”

One recent recipient was Jessica Williams, a single mother of three who had been working as a grocery store cashier.

Having reliable transportation means Jessica can now consider going to college, finding a better job and spending more time with her children.

She said she'll never forget all the people who helped make it possible.

These teenagers went to class to learn how to get cars running. They ended up helping families move forward too. ❤️

Local photographer does unique photo shoots. Wouldn’t a causeway sunset photoshoot with your favorite vintage car be cool?

Now that’s how you do it. Go Bucs!

College football season is here, y'all. If your tailgate has an upstairs, you’re ready.

For the past decade, car dashboards have been disappearing. Buttons, dials, switches, all replaced by touchscreens. Tesla started the trend. The rest of the industry followed. Now China is ending it.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has finalised a regulation requiring all cars sold in China from July 2027 to have physical buttons for safety-critical functions. Lights, wipers, hazard warnings, gear shifting, and emergency controls must all be operable by touch, without looking at a screen.

The rules are specific. Buttons must be at least 10 by 10 millimetres. They must be clearly visible. And they must be "blind-operable," meaning a driver can use them without taking their eyes off the road.

It sounds obvious. It is obvious. But it took a regulatory mandate to say what most drivers have been muttering since the first time they tried to turn on their windscreen wipers through three layers of touchscreen menus at 100 kilometres per hour in the rain.

China isn't alone. Euro NCAP announced that from January 2026, cars relying on touchscreens for basic functions like indicators and wipers will be marked down in safety ratings. Volkswagen has already reintroduced physical controls after admitting the touchscreen-only approach made driving harder.

The touchscreen era isn't over. But the idea that every button in a car should live inside a screen is. Turns out the original interface worked fine. It was called a button 💛

Graeme Hebley has been driving the same 1993 Toyota Corolla station wagon since 2000 — and has put over 2 million kilometers, roughly 1.2 million miles, on it without ever replacing the engine or transmission.

He drives almost 5,000 kilometers per week for his job as a newspaper delivery contractor, making the roughly four-hour round trip between Wellington and New Plymouth six days a week.

His mechanic John Sherman of Guthrie’s Auto Care, who has serviced the car every two weeks for over 20 years, confirmed the car still runs on its completely original engine and transmission.

“If I hadn’t worked on it, I wouldn’t believe it. I wouldn’t believe it could do two million without something going wrong,” Sherman said.

Hebley credits the car’s longevity to a combination of Toyota’s engineering and his commitment to regular maintenance.

“That era of Toyota has such built-in reliability. But if it wasn’t so frequently serviced, it just wouldn’t work,” he said. ·

At 72 years old, Hebley has no plans to retire the car or himself: “As long as it keeps going, so will I"

In a culture obsessed with upgrading and replacing everything the moment something newer exists, this man and his Corolla are a reminder that consistency and care will always outlast novelty.

know it’s still runnin…. But it’s time to get a newer one.

The U.S. Postal Service unveiled a new series of stamps on Friday that features five special cars. For the lowrider community, it's validation of a vibrant, artistic expression that blossomed decades ago in Mexican American and Chicano communities with the transformation of everyday cars into rolling masterpieces.

Read the full story here: https://abc7news.com/18707379/

From the barrios to the mailbox! 🏎️✨ The USPS is officially celebrating lowrider culture with a stunning new series of stamps featuring iconic Chevy Impalas and authentic pinstriping. MORE BELOW ⬇️