Village Auto Body, Inc

04/30/2026

We got cake and we're going to eat it, too!

It's a tasty cassata from a customer to thank our whole team! Yummy.

04/30/2026

Join us, May 9th!
Migratory Bird Hike!




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04/30/2026

For many people old enough to remember the season, it stands out as the start of Northeast Ohio's love affair with the Cavs.

Fifty years ago, Cleveland had home court advantage in that opening series against Washington after winning its division, but the Cavs were the clear underdogs in a matchup against a stacked Bullets team.

It's been 50 years since the NBA Eastern Conference semifinals when the Cavs upset the Washington Bullets in Cleveland's first NBA postseason appearance.

03/18/2026

The 60th annual show, known as "The Final Drive," is scheduled for March 27-29, 2026.

The I-X Piston Powered Auto-Rama, held at Cleveland's I-X Center, is a historic, massive indoor show celebrating 60 years of piston-driven vehicles in 2026. Beginning in 1967 at the Cleveland Convention Center, it features over 1,000 custom cars, trucks, motorcycles, tanks, and aircraft. It highlights American hot rod culture and features elite ISCA competition.

Find Rick Hudak's 1921 Lincoln at the AACA Cuyahoga Region Display March 27-29, 2026 is your chance to see this unique 1921 Lincoln, beautifully restored by Village Auto Body, at the last Piston Powered Auto-Rama to be held at the IX Center.

03/17/2026

It's true that Ford's popular Model T promised to deliver a car in any color - as long as it was black. It's because the Japan Black lacquer dried in under an hour, whereas colored paints took days to dry. One color was economical and fit Ford's focus on efficiency.

Read the whole story: https://villageautobody.org/award-winning-state-of-the-art-automotive-painting/

03/04/2026

03/04/2026

What bravery!

03/04/2026

Thank you to all our customers who have reviewed us favorably on Google. You helped us achieve this honor, and we are grateful.
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"Village Auto Body has been officially recognized as the BEST OF 2026 Richfield Award Winner in the Auto Body Shop category - an honor based on verified data from Google Reviews, as analyzed and certified by BusinessRate.

"This recognition is part of the BusinessRate BEST of 2026 Awards, which identify local leaders in customer satisfaction, brand reputation, and service excellence. It is a performance metric that shows how our business ranks against local competitors.

"It is earned not by application nor nomination, but by the authentic feedback of our own customers on Google Reviews."

12/25/2025

Merry Christmas!!

12/16/2025

Humanetics, in Huron, Ohio, is the leading manufacturer of automotive crash test dummies — the humanoid devices that are buckled into cars for safety tests to gather data on what would happen to a real person in a crash.

Dummies are expensive — their price point can range from hundreds of thousands of dollars to more than $1 million for the newest top-of-the-line models.

The customers for these niche products are automakers, of course, who have to test their own products, as well as the federal government and third-party groups like the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, a nonprofit funded by auto insurers that publishes safety ratings.

These days, automakers and safety groups are increasingly getting into virtual testing, using computer models to simulate crashes — which allows for a far wider range of body types and crash scenarios than physical tests can replicate.

But you will still need raw data to feed into those computer models. And for now, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety relies on real-world, physical tests for its safety ratings.

Automotive crash test dummies are born in Ohio, brought to "life" near Detroit, and then sent around the world to make cars safer.