Mississauga, ON – August 18, 2016
A dazzling 1939 Oldsmobile Series 60 convertible dubbed “Olds Cool,” painted by Charley Hutton using PPG products, captured the inaugural Hot August Nights Cup on August 6 at the recent namesake classic car competition in Reno, Nev. The cup, equivalent to a best-in-show award, is the ultimate prize in the Hot August Nights event—a mix of music, entertainment and classic car show with more than 6,000 vehicles on display—that ran August 2–7.

Olds Cool is owned by Billy and Debbie Thomas of Robstown, Texas. It was built by Harold Chapman and his crew at Customs & Hot Rods of Andice in Georgetown, Texas. Charley Hutton then gave the car its winning finish. Hutton, well-respected in the custom car world, uses PPG products exclusively at his shop, Charley Hutton’s Color Studio, in Nampa, Idaho. He is renowned for choosing just the right color for a car to give it a unique—and award-winning—appearance. For Olds Cool, Hutton created Kona Brown using PPG VIBRANCE COLLECTION^® VP2050 High Build Primer, ENVIROBASE^® High Performance waterborne basecoat and ECS Sealer, GLOBAL REFINISH SYSTEM^™ D8152 Performance + Glamour Clearcoat and a special custom mix of tints and toners to give the car its unique finish, ensuring it would stand apart from the competition. The car has a winning resume: Earlier this year Olds Cool won the 2016 Ridler Award—Hutton’s fourth—and was named the PPG-Goodguys Nationals Street Rod of the Year.

The Hot August Nights Cup competition was intense with only 50 cars from across the country allowed to enter the contest. Each entry endured the scrutiny of three demanding judges: Steve Mank, co-host Spike TV’s MuscleCar; Reggie Tibbets, co-owner of the SuperNationals car show in Albuquerque; and Eddie Potestio, owner of Eddie’s Rods & Customs, Pueblo West, Colo. More than $100,000 in cash and prizes was at stake for the top ten cars.

PPG-finished cars took an additional five of the top ten honors. A 1969 Chevrolet Camaro owned by Alex Short of Bluffdale, Utah, and built by Cam Miller and his team at HS Customs in Logan, Utah, came in fourth. Painter Cort Sessions gave the car a gleaming white finish using DELTRON^® DP90LV Epoxy Primer, Vibrance Collection VP2050 High Build Primer, VP2100 Polyester Primer, Envirobase High Performance ECP15 Gray A-Chromatic Surfacer, Deltron DBC2000 Basecoat, Global Refinish System D8188 Glamor LV Clearcoat and custom mixes.

Fifth place was claimed by a 1959 Rambler American wagon built by Doug Jerger and the talented crew, including painter Moose Graczyk, at Squeeg’s Kustoms, Chandler, Ariz., for Scottsdale-based owner Dean Osland. Graczyk gave the car its root beer and titanium paint job paint job with PPG Deltron DBC2000 Basecoat, DCU2021 Urethane Clear and a custom mix of toners and tints.

Harold Chapman and his team at Customs & Hot Rods of Andice picked up a second honor taking seventh place with a 1949 Cadillac Model 62 convertible owned by Chapman’s wife Tracy. Shop manager Michael Kaiser had expert painter Lance Nelson give the Caddy its lustrous white and blue satin finish with Deltron DBC2000 Basecoat, a special blend of tints and toners and Global Refinish System D8152 Performance + Glamour Clearcoat.

A 1937 Ford Coupe won ninth place. Owned by Dan Wathor of Rio Linda, Calif., and built and painted by Kenny Welch of Kenny’s Rod Shop, Boise, Idaho, the car sported a copperish color achieved with Envirobase High Performance waterborne basecoat, a custom color mix and Deltron DCU2021 Urethane Clear.

Rounding out PPG’s brimming winner’s circle, in tenth place, was a stunning 1938 Alfa Romeo Club Coupe. The car, owned by Bart Bartoni of Modesto, Calif., was built by Ron Crume of Infinity Motorsports, Grants Pass, Ore. Crume also painted the Alfa, giving it a custom two-tone Tuscany Tan and Italian Ivory finish with Deltron DBC2000 Basecoat, DC4000 Velocity Premium Clear and a combination of toners and tints.

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Mississauga, ON - August 3, 2016 
PPG Industries took a starring role at the 19th annual Goodguys PPG Nationals held July 8–10 at the Ohio Expo Center in Columbus. The annual PPG Dream Car award winners were named, and a PPG-painted car took Street Rod of the Year honors. In addition, PPG’s DITZLER^® DSC5250 Satin Clear Kit won the inaugural Best New Product award in the extremely competitive Paint & Car Care Products category.

The PPG Dream Car awards are given to the two cars or trucks that best exemplify the outstanding use of color, design, gloss and execution in a paint job. The popular accolade is highly prized with competition always stiff, as custom car painters and builders work hard to stand out from the crowd. This year, two exceptional cars earned that distinction: a 1929 Ford Model A owned by Dale Spangenberg III of Willoughby, Ohio, and a 1971 Oldsmobile 442 owned by Ed Pienta of Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

Spangenberg turned his Model A into a classic street rod: chopped, channeled and powered by a potent Pontiac 389 engine.  He did most of the work himself, along with Bill Evans and John Labbato through Spangenberg’s company, E & J Precision Fabrication.  The car features an exotic multi-toned blue finish. The look was achieved using several PPG DELTRON^® products including K38 High Build Primer Surfacer, DBC 2000 Basecoat, DMD1696 Coarse Silver Dollar Aluminum and DMD650 Sparkle Aluminum Toners, and DCU2021 Urethane Clear along with several VIBRANCE COLLECTION^® custom blue candy tints. S & M Auto Body painted the car, and Jerome Borris did the complex art work and graphics.

Pienta also did most of the work on his Olds 442 in his garage workshop. He gave the coupe a complete frame-off restoration to 1971 specs. The car features a rare and powerful W-30 engine/drivetrain option, making it a genuine example of a ’70s-era muscle car. To ensure the car’s authenticity, Pienta made sure to match the car’s original color—Matador Red. He painted the 442 himself in a homemade spray booth using PPG’s Deltron brand DPLF Epoxy Primer, DPS 3055 V-PRIME^® Acrylic Urethane Primer Surfacer, DAS 3025 V-SEAL^® Acrylic Urethane Sealer, red DCC Concept Single-Stage and DCU 2021 Urethane Clear.

The Street Rod of the Year award went to a 1939 Oldsmobile, “Olds Cool,” painted by Charley Hutton and owned by Billy and Debbie Thomas of Corpus Christie, Texas. The Street Rod competition is open to all cars through the 1949 model year. Hutton gave Olds Cool a standout finish. To give the car the exact appearance he wanted, Hutton used an array of PPG products including Vibrance Collection VP2050 High Build Primer, ENVIROBASE^® High Performance waterborne basecoat and ECS Sealer, GLOBAL REFINISH SYSTEM™ D8152 Performance + Glamour Clearcoat and a special custom mix of tints and toners to achieve the unique “Kona Brown” finish.

Winning the Best New Product award with the Vibrance Collection DSC5250 Satin Clear Kit was also a notable achievement for the Automotive Refinish business unit. The kit features a quart of VC5250 Ditzler Satin Clear and a half pint of VH7250 Ditzler Satin Clear Hardener. Using advanced PPG technology, the low-gloss custom clear delivers a smooth and uniform satin finish with superior mar resistance. It can be used on accent stripes, hoods or the entire vehicle and gives custom car builders more choices and possibilities in their designs and paint schemes. In addition, DSC5250 Satin Clear is fully compatible with PPG’s Vibrance Collection brand paint system and is compliant in all North American regions.

Goodguys is one of the world’s largest rod and custom associations, with more than 70,000 active members. The three-day PPG-Goodguys event displayed more than 6,000 custom cars and trucks and attracted more than 75,000 auto enthusiasts. The organization produces dynamic and well-attended automotive events across the country including the national show in Columbus, Ohio. PPG is the official paint supplier to the Goodguys Rod & Custom Association. PPG exhibits at all national and many regional Goodguys events displaying the latest automotive refinish products, hottest colors and custom tones, unique pigments and special-effect finishes available in the Envirobase High Performance, Vibrance Collection, Deltron and other PPG brands.

At PPG (NYSE: PPG), we work every day to develop and deliver the paints, coatings and materials that our customers have trusted for more than 130 years. Through dedication and creativity, we solve our customers’ biggest challenges, collaborating closely to find the right path forward. With headquarters in Pittsburgh, we operate and innovate in more than 70 countries and reported net sales of $15.3 billion in 2015. We serve customers in construction, consumer products, industrial and transportation markets and aftermarkets. To learn more, visit www.ppg.com.

Mississauga, ON – August 11, 2016
Team Penske’s Simon Pagenaud drove his No. 22 PPG Team Penske Dallara/Chevrolet to another Verizon IndyCar Series win, beating teammate and second-place finisher Will Power to the checkered flag in the Honda Indy 200 at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio, Sunday, July 31.

In his second season with Team Penske, Pagenaud has raced to four wins—the latest along with the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, the Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama and the Angie’s List Grand Prix of Indianapolis—three of them in the PPG-painted car. With his Mid-Ohio victory, Pagenaud increased his lead in the driver championship standings to 58 points over his closest competitor, his teammate Power.

“Four wins! That’s awesome . . . and exciting,” said Pagenaud, a native of France. “The PPG Chevrolet seems to bring me good luck. It was really good today, and I was able to get to the winner’s circle.”

Thanks to Pagenaud’s first-place finish, Team Penske was presented with the Honda Indy 200 Owner’s Trophy, an honor given to the winning car’s owner. Team Penske, as a demonstration of appreciation, in turn presented the trophy to the team’s primary sponsor, PPG. PPG representative John Outcalt, vice president, global automotive refinish, accepted the honor.

“The PPG-Team Penske relationship is one we value and never take for granted,” said Outcalt. “Presenting PPG with this Owner’s Trophy was unexpected and speaks to the rich, mutually beneficial history between the two entities,” added Outcalt.

PPG has been a longtime major sponsor of Team Penske with a business association that dates back to PPG’s involvement in automobile racing and sponsorship of the PPG Cup from 1979 to 1999. As a leading global supplier of high-performance coatings, PPG has become Penske Corporation’s exclusive supplier of refinish coatings for its racing, truck leasing and automotive collision repair subsidiaries and facilities. Team Penske uses the PPG ENVIROBASE^® High Performance waterborne coatings system for painting its race cars. Simon Pagenaud’s Chevrolet showcases a lustrous blue and white PPG water-based finish and, like other PPG-sponsored Team Penske cars, displays the PPG logo.

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