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Movers & Shakers: 'Keys to Ride' Winner to Be Announced at SEMA, QA1 Hires Ryan Gebhardt

By SEMA News Editors

AAM Group, Lippert's 'Keys to Ride' 2024 Winner to be Announced at SEMA Show
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The AAM Group and Lippert invite SEMA Show attendees to join them for the exciting finale of the 2024 Keys to Ride sweepstakes, which will see one of six lucky jobbers win a custom '23 Chevy Colorado Z71 fully decked out with products from the Lippert family of brands. The finalists and their associated AAM Group warehouse distributors are listed below. 

2024 'Keys to Ride' Finalists 

  • Topper World Gulfport in Gulfport, MS 
  • Kirk's Auto Ltd in Gonzales, LA 
  • Pickup Palace in Saint Joseph, MO
  • Discount Hitch & Truck Accessories in Rosenburg, TX
  • Cornelius Custom Services in Graham, TX
  • Southern Tire Mart in Hattiesburg, Mississippi 

The joint presentation will be held at the SEMA Show in the Lippert Booth #55103 in the West Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center on Tuesday, November 5, at 1 p.m. PT. Then, the finalists take place in a live event to win the truck. Each finalist will also receive a $1,000 gift card and two nights of hotel accommodation for the final drawing. 

To qualify for the event, jobbers earned entries by making qualifying purchases of select Lippert brands from their Total Truck Centers or Performance Corner warehouse distributor from January 1, 2024, to August 31, 2024. After the qualifying sweepstakes period concluded, the six finalists were randomly drawn from among all eligible entrants. For complete sweepstakes details, please visit KeysToRide.com

QA1 Hires Ryan Gebhardt as Director of Marketing

Ryan GebhardtQA1, the Lakeville, Minnesota-based suspension component manufacturer, has hired Ryan Gebhardt as its new director of marketing.

Gebhardt will oversee all marketing efforts and brand strategy for QA1 and Speedtech Performance. He brings 28 years of marketing, purchasing and sales experience in the performance and automotive aftermarket to his new role, including time as the vice president of purchasing and marketing at JEGS High Performance as well as director of purchasing and marketing at Nickels Performance.

"We are so pleased to have Ryan on our team to help drive our brands forward. We have a long history of working together and when the opportunity came for him to join the team, it was an easy decision," says Melissa Scoles, QA1 CEO. "I am excited and humbled to work with the amazing teams at QA1 and Speedtech Performance, as both companies are committed to engineering innovative and full chassis solutions for the high-performance customer."

For more information, visit qa1.net.