It’s been a wild pre-season and with the fall changeover charging toward us the season is ramping up fast 🚀 what better time to share a few highlights and introduce you to my new blog AftermarketDrive.com – automotive aftermarket stories about parts, tools, equipment, businesses and the people who drive our industry.

Martins acquired the Bruno Wessel business in the spring and we’ve spent the last five months successfully integrating that business into Martins. Major project! Not just the physical relocation of tractor-load after tractor-load of warehouse, assembly equipment, parts, tools and decommissioning Pickering but transitioning the entire procurement and production processes into Martins sophisticated manufacturing environment. And all along, we kept operations, production, training, customer calls, events and sales moving forward uninterrupted. This was one for the books – and we’re moving forward full-throttle into the upcoming tire studding season.

We had time to play. My son and I regularly test drive cars – this is the Bronco Raptor – we don’t rock climb but we can learn 🙂

Ferrari 488 Spider – 600+ horsepower – fun but intimidating.

As usual, the Canadian International AutoShow in Toronto was awesome

Over the next little while, I’ll be sharing stories from the field – highlighting products and people. Here’s the first video – I visited CARS 101 in Pickering, Ontario to get their feedback on Martins’ Wheel Lifter. Enjoy!

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