Read here about how “an emergency trans fluid-ectomy” at a LeMons Road Race could have gone really badly if not for (insert trumpet fanfare) … PIG® Absorbent Mat and the PIG® Form-A-Funnel® Flexible Draining Tool!

Read here about the 24 Hours of LeMons Race Series. Ya gotta love it when …

• Teams can spend no more than $500 preparing their cars (excluding safety equipment)
• Races have names like “Southern Discomfort” and “Mutually Assured Destruction of Omaha” leading up to “The Painfully Bland Bowl Of Thin Lukewarm Oatmeal That Can Not Possibly Offend Anyone, No Matter How Much They Enjoy Being Offended, 24-Hour Season Ender”!
• Wacky penalties include “Mime Your Crime,” where you explain what you did wrong without words in white face and a beret” and (get this!) ” Barnyard,” where a metal pig is welded to your car!

Ford pulled a pretty cool stunt to address those V6-in-a-full-size-truck naysayers. Basically, they tortured the heck out of a randomly selected engine for months and tore it down live in front of the crowds at the Detroit Auto Show on Sunday.

If you look closely at their teardown area, there are copious amounts of PIG® Absorbent Mat lining the benches under all of those parts…

Looks like Ford not only knows how to build a great truck engine, but they also how to tear it down the RIGHT way!

My daughter and son-in-law were at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh this weekend and spotted PIG® Absorbent Mat on a window seal and placed below the window to catch condensation. They sent me the picture to share.

Who is the only car-talk host on commercial radio named to the “Talkers 250,” the list of the top 250 talk-show hosts in the U.S.?

Bobby Likis!

And which two New Piggers just appeared on his “Car Clinic” show?

Dan Silver and Andy James!

Click here to hear them discuss General Motor’s recycling of PIG® Oil-Only Absorbent Booms (mentioned in our previous post) as well as the PIG® Form-A-Funnel® Flexible Draining Tool and PIG® Absorbent Mat, available at vehicle service suppliers nationwide.

New Pig has a small part in some creative recycling by General Motors .

GM has found a way to convert 100 miles of oil-soaked boom used in the Gulf Spill response—including PIG® Oil-Only Absorbent Booms. This will yield enough plastic for particular under-hood parts to supply the first year production of the Chevrolet Volt. It means 100,000 pounds that won’t be incinerated or landfilled.

You go, GM. Below is a good quick video overview: