NASCAR hopes to inject new life into its Busch Series by changing the types of cars raced, beginning as early as 2009, according to multiple sources familiar with the project.

If plans go according to schedule, the next-generation Busch Series cars will be Chevrolet Camaros, Dodge Challengers, Ford Mustangs and an as-yet-to-be named Toyota model, sources said. Ford overhauled the Mustang as a 1960s-retro model in 2005, to positive critical and commercial results. Chevrolet and Dodge will release similarly retro-themed Camaros and Challengers, respectively, by the 2009 model year.

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The company’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, is just in his early twenties, fresh from Harvard. Over the past few months, several of his recent classmates have made claims that they are the real owners of the Facebook concept.

Such disputes are very common for early stage companies. And it’s also common for these companies to be sloppy in protecting themselves from legal claims.

So what can be done?

First, it’s important to have founder’s agreements. These set forth contributions, roles, and ownership positions. There should also be clauses for things like noncompetition, nonsolicitation of employees, confidentiality, and commitments on time to be devoted to the venture.

I also think it’s a good idea to have all employees, contractors, and founders sign invention assignment agreements. This means that all intellectual property that is created will belong to the company.

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Pretty cool video on how to remove basic dents using the expansion and contraction of heat and cold. I might give it a try myself.

Want to paint your car for 50 dollars and actually have a good finish? Rick Wilcox of rickwrench.com did just that. Using Basic supplies like a couple quarts of Rustoleum, foam rollers & touch up brushes. He turned his corvair from a wreck to riches.

“After everything, I can say I’m -very- sold on the method of application. No booth, no paint gun/equipment, very little masking, no overspray. I do have unresolved questions about the paint. Rustoleum is a fine household enamel, but I wonder at it’s long term durability. Several folks have reported eventual fading using Rustoleum colors. We’ll see what happens with the white. Next time I paint a car with this method, I’m going to investigate a few higher quality paint options.
Corvair Corsa, mostly done, parked back on the street where it belongs. Rims rattle-canned to match the stripes, stock Corsa wheel covers. I still need to install the wheel well trim and “corsa” emblem that goes under the fuel door.
I can say, with confidence, the stripe is worth at least 5-7 rwhp. ”

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Take a brand new 997 model porsche + a crusher = art? you decide. It’s about the regeneration of these things into something new, such as the modern art it has become. Still, the car lover in each of us here winces at this display…

I’m proud to announce that we now have a forum located at http://www.gottatopic.com/forum. Their are 14 subjects to fit anyone’s interests and we hope you enjoy!

“When it gets too cold to race we have to do other stuff to entertain ourselves!!!”

Late last year, Ian Moray stumbled across a cotton-candy-pink Web site called Whateverlife.com. As manager of media development at the online marketing company ValueClick Media, he was searching for under-the-radar destinations for notoriously fickle teenagers. Beyond MySpace and Facebook, countless sites come and go in the teen universe, like soon forgotten pop songs. But Whateverlife stood out. It was more authentic somehow. It featured a steady supply of designs for MySpace pages and attracted a few hundred-thousand girls a day. “Clever design, a growing base–that’s a no-brainer for us,” Moray says.

He approached Ashley Qualls, Whateverlife’s founder, about incorporating ads from ValueClick’s 450 or so clients and sharing the revenue. At first, she declined. Then a few weeks later she changed her mind. He was in Los Angeles and she was in Detroit, so they arranged everything by phone and email. They still have yet to meet in person.

When did Moray, who’s 40, learn that his new business partner was 17 years old?

Pause.

“When our director of marketing told me why Fast Company was calling,” says Moray, now ValueClick’s director of media development. “I assumed she was a seasoned Internet professional. She knows so much about what her site does, more than people three times her age.”

It’s like that famous New Yorker cartoon. A dog typing away at a computer tells his canine buddy, “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.”

At 17 going on 37 (at least), Ashley is very much an Internet professional. In the less than two years since Whateverlife took off, she has dropped out of high school, bought a house, helped launch artists such as Lily Allen, and rejected offers to buy her young company. Although Ashley was flattered to be offered $1.5 million and a car of her choice–as long as the price tag wasn’t more than $100,000–she responded, in effect, Whatever. “I don’t even have my license yet,” she says.

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