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[tb]

Pep Boys to sponsor Top Fuel and Funny Car Callouts. Also National Dragster has them sponsoring the Maple Grove event.

Pep Boys named Official Auto Service Partner of NHRA, sponsor of All-Star Callouts

NHRA and Pep Boys Auto Service & Tires have announced that Pep Boys has been named the Official Auto Service Partner of NHRA and the Official Sponsor of the NHRA All-Star Callout in both Top Fuel and Funny Car as part of a multiyear partnership.

www.nhra.com

 

[Dragracer]

How about sponsoring a Race car.

 

[J. S.]

Well, hey - one thing at a time. This is good news to sign a new sponsor to NHRA drag racing.

 

[stitcherbob]

Out here mention Pep Boys and we're thinkin yer talkin bout those twins in town that make meth.......

 

[mgty3whlr]

I thought Pep Boys were in a bad financial situation. Last I heard, They were closing stores. Maybe I'm wrong.

 

[Jer]

Surprised they have any $$ to sponsor anything,most of their stoees are dumps

 

[Cliff]

Manny, Moe & Jack, from 1940's if I remember. We still have one in Phx. Always remember the one in Glendale, Calif, where I grew up. Was considered "not good stuff" even back then.

 

[Notch1320]

I promoted a Nostalgia Funny Car race at Atco in 2002 and had the local Pep Boys regional stores as a sponsor. Check out this radio ad I did for the event:

 

[nedannouncer]

...and they are not done yet.

 

[dr flames]

...and they are not done yet.

Thank you Brian, so sick that so money have to run to negative trash to stick there chest out, haven’t we lost enough to this pandemic, I wish them well as the rest of the racing community

 

[Custom Body Fan]

Carl Icahn bought Pep Boys a few years back. Hope you can read the article without a subscription. It’s not a real positive story. https://www.inquirer.com/business/p...jack-future-fate-20210103.html?outputType=amp.

The store near me in Philly has in fact gone sharply downhill in the past 18 months. You now check out in back at the parts counter. The old checkout stands are still up front with random stuff and empty boxes piled on and in them. I’d assume shoplifting has to have gone up with that setup, but they saved money by canning the cashiers.

 

[glofria]

I use to go the one in West Hills as it was the closest parts store to my home, but the closed down the store; sign out front said something about Carquest. I think the shop is still opened though. Now I go to O'Rielly's in the bad part of town.

 

[Nunz]

How about sponsoring a Race car.

Terry why the negativity toward a positive announcement?

 

[JB3]

Terry why the negativity toward a positive announcement?

There's never much gratitude here anymore. A whole thread and no real "thank yous". Instead, a bunch of critics chastising the Pep Boys franchise model.

Oh by the way, as Brian Lohnes hinted at earlier ... there was more to come. Pep Boys are title sponsor of the Reading event at Maple Grove

THANK YOU Pep Boys !!!!!

 

[qualified17th]

Well, hey - one thing at a time. This is good news to sign a new sponsor to NHRA drag racing.

Not 100% new to the sport. They have sponsored a race before. But still wonderful to see them back/increasing support

NHRA: Pep Boys Named Title Sponsor of Carolina Nationals at zMAX Dragway

zMAX Dragway and NHRA officials announced The Pep Boys—Manny, Moe and Jack—will be the title sponsor when the NHRA returns, September 12–14, at the Pep Boys NHRA Carolina Nationals—the first of the NHRA’s six-race playoffs, the NHRA Mello Yello Countdown to the Championship, which will be...

www.sema.org

 

[Custom Body Fan]

I always thought Pep Boys should have been more involved in motorsports sponsorship. As it happens, I do most of my auto-related shopping at Pep Boys, and it is where I often get tires and state inspections. That said, I am sort of wondering why I shop there. They are owned by a corporate raider, Carl Icahn, who has cost untold thousands of American jobs at the firms he has acquired or exerted control over, ran TWA bankrupt and out of business, all the while making himself worth $20 billion or so. As a Philadelphian, it is bummer he has basically closed Pep Boy's HQ, that was in Philly since the company's founding. And as mentioned before, employment is getting cut at his stores (Pep Boys runs their own stores - they do not franchise them.)

Anyway, it is probably time I decided where I really want to spend my auto-related dollars! It may end up being PB - large selection and close to my house - but I probably need to think about it.

 

[Dragracer]

Terry why the negativity toward a positive announcement?I

I don't get it. What is negative about Pep Boys sponsoring a car?

 

[Nunz]

I don't get it. What is negative about Pep Boys sponsoring a car?

Well, that would be great if it were to happen. My response to you was more about, let's thank them for stepping back into the sport. Seems now like you weren't being negative, but that's where keyboard conversations don't always convey the tone an in person one would.

 

[stockergtp]

Glad to see Pep Boys sponsoring a couple of races. All the Pep Boys stores near me closed and are now just auto service locations only.

 

[Old21stud]

The great part in this is that PB's Corp. Marketing Dept. see's enough value n NHRA drag racing to sign the check. Wasn't always that way. Hopefully NHRA hasn't had to drop the rates to get the sponsorship $$$.