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In March 2006, AAMCO merged with Cottman Transmission, and American Capital purchased AAMCO and moved the headquarters from Philadelphia to nearby Horsham, Pennsylvania. [ 6 ] Owing in part to the increased reliability of automatic transmissions, and thus the lengthened repair cycle, in the mid-2000s, the company rebranded to AAMCO ...
In 2006, its parent holding company, American Driveline Systems, Inc. acquired AAMCO Transmissions as part of their portfolio and it was combined with the company. Now It operates totally separated under the same owner and parent holding company. Cottman Transmission and Total Auto Care celebrated its 50th anniversary of business in 2012. [7]
AAMCO shop, Ypsilanti, MI AAMCO is an American transmission-repair franchise founded by Robert Morgan [1] and Anthony A. Martino (who used the first letter of each name to form the names AAMCO and later MAACO) in 1957 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
He, along with Robert Morgan, was a co-founder of the AAMCO transmission repair franchise in 1963, the name for which was created as an acronym of his initials. After selling his interest in AAMCO in 1967, he founded the anagrammed acronym MAACO autobody and paint-service franchise in 1972, of which he remained the CEO until his 2008 death.
Ten years before MAACO's founding, Martino had launched AAMCO Transmissions with partner Robert Morgan. He created both names by using the first letters from his name (Anthony A. Martino). In 1967, with close to 500 stores in operation, Martino sold AAMCO to Morgan. In 1972, Martino opened a pilot auto painting center in Wilmington, Delaware.
By this time, Express Oil Change operated 172 company- and franchise-owned locations across 10 states. [6] In 2013, as Express Oil Change had expanded to nearly 200 locations across 13 states, Carousel Capital reacquired the company from Thompson Street. [7] Expresst acquired Birmingham-based Tire Engineers, a company with seven locations. [8]
Honda J35A 3.5L V6 SOHC i-VTEC Variable Cylinder Management(VCM) Engine on 2008 Honda Inspire. Variable Cylinder Management (VCM) is Honda's term for its variable displacement technology, which saves fuel by using the i-VTEC system to disable one bank of cylinders during specific driving conditions—for example, highway driving. The second ...
Amoco (/ ˈ æ m ə k oʊ / AM-ə-koh) is a brand of fuel stations operating in the United States and owned by British conglomerate BP since 1998. The Amoco Corporation was an American chemical and oil company, founded by Standard Oil Company in 1889 around a refinery in Whiting, Indiana, and was officially the Standard Oil Company of Indiana until 1985.