Today is Google Adwords 10th birthday. To celebrate they made promo videos with their customers names in them. Pretty impressive. Especially since we’re a very small customer of theirs at the moment. Google’s announcement totes having billions of ads displayed over the last 10 years. It’s hard not to wonder how much this company has actually made from adwords in 10 years. It’s way more then the average person can really comprehend. Anyway, heres the link they sent us this morning. Enjoy!

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Jim Eitvydas, owner of Tom’s Foreign Auto Parts, got a chance to check out Marks Classic Cruise last night. Mark’s Auto parts is a salvage yard located in East Granby CT. If you’ve ever flown out of Bradley Airport, you may have seen his place from over head. Its a very large and very organized salvage yard thats been around for a long time.  Mark of Mark’s Auto Parts puts on a car show almost every Monday night during the summer right outside the gates of his business.
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I’m a huge fan of Top Gear and every season theres that one episode that just makes you laugh so hard you can’t breathe. This is that episode for me. This has got to be one of the funniest things they’ve done, in the top 5 funniest at least. This is showcasing the Reliant Robin, one of the most unstable cars ever made. It was apparently popular among minors in the UK. If you’ve never seen Top Gear then this is a good time to start watching it. Enjoy!

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You always hear about quality differences between cheaper parts but it never seems that big of a deal until you see something like this. This is why it’s so important to keep OEM quality parts on your car. If they used a recycled ford bumper then it would have the same safety properties as what was on the car to begin with. We’ll have to refer back to this when people ask us the difference between aftermarket and OEM parts.
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This pretty much speaks for itself. First video of the new Porsche 918 hitting the streets. This car looks amazing. I was a huge fan of the Carrera GT but this really tops that. This is a 3.4L V8 Super car hybrid that gets 78mpg! Take a second and re read that sentence “3.4L V8 Super car hybrid that gets 78mpg“.
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So a few of us here at Tom’s Foreign have taken up racing 1/10 scale RC cars. It’s been a lot of fun for us so far and has kept us busy when we’re not selling foreign auto parts. Our friends over at RC Hobbies in Winstead CT have built a pretty nice dirt track in the parking lot of their store. Behind the track though are these huge cement tubes we just had to try. Check out the video below!  This is our very own Micheal Mcdonald using his Traxxas Slash 4×4 with a Mamba 2650k swap.
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A quick walk through of how BMW tries to make their vehicles easier to recycle. This is their official recycling plant in Germany. It looks like their mostly concentrated on the absolute final destination of the vehicle and not re using the parts. I really enjoy watching them use a giant claw to rip out the engine of what looks to be a new BMW.
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We’ve made a slight upgrade to our inventory camera and are now taking our inventory videos in 720p HD. Below is one example. For all of our youtube videos, check out our youtube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/toms4n
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