[doc] DMUK Important announcement

[Martin Gutkowski <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All

What follows is a quick story of DMUK for the past year, where we've 
been, and where we're now going, with a few apologies along the way. 
This passage will be on our website in a matter of days, together with 
contact details and maps for AC Motors.
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We had been going great guns until early this year when the chap who 
helped us set up the company, who, at the time was a very good friend, 
ran off with a 4-figure sum of company money. As you can imagine, this 
accounts for an awful lot of oil filters! Mainly though, it affected our 
ability to invest in the short term (eg buying parts in to complete 
jobs, and investing in new part development). This has put us on the 
back foot for a long time, during which the council also decided to shut 
us down from working on cars at the address on our website. The bank 
also seem to choose the most inopportune moments to change their policy, 
often to the point of making operating from the bank account stupidly 
restrictive (thank God for Paypal!).

In the past two months, I personally have had to spend a lot of time at 
home with my parents as my father, after several years of gradual 
decline, began rapidly descending into dementia until and two weeks ago 
when he passed away at the age of 85. I have been at home keeping my 
mother company for much of the time since then. During this time, Dave 
has been doing his best to "man the phone" in Stevenage, but he too had 
some family business to attend to so the answerphone got very full, 
sometimes for days at a time. This is why the website now sports my 
mobile number - please do try it if you get no joy from the company land 
line. It also explains why orders have been taking some time, so please 
accept our humblest apologies for any inconvenience.

Thankfully, in spite of all of this, the buoyancy of the DeLorean market 
is seeing us through and showing a lot of promise for the future. We've 
recently acquired a large stock of used parts, and even without 
advertising, they're already flying out of the door! We've been keeping 
a close eye on the secondhand market and have managed to snap up several 
"unavailable" parts (eg manual transmission mounting brackets, driver's 
side torsion bar, exhaust brackets..... and more)

We have also just arranged a partnership with a gentleman by the name of 
Andy Carvosso who is a professional mechanic and garage owner in 
Southen-on-Sea. He has recently acquired his own DeLorean which he is 
stripping to the bare bones and rebuilding (currently his workshop 
contains a rolling chassis and two underbodies in a line, very pretty!). 
He indicated some time ago his great desire to get in on the act with 
working on DeLoreans, so it seemed only sensible to hammer out a deal!

With immediate effect, we are booking DeLorean work at AC Motors in 
Southend. You can book your car in through us in the usual way, or 
simply to arrange a time, you can call Andy direct on 01702 303683. Dave 
and/or I will be there working side-by-side with Andy, so your car will 
be given the care and attention we've developed at DMUK since we 
started. I will be putting a map link on the website over the weekend.

In the next few days, the dmuk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx e-mail address will be 
directed to all three of us at the same time. For your records, DMUK 
addresses are as follows:

Martin Gutkowski    martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Dave Woodyard    dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Andy Carvosso    andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
All of the above, and our Paypal account:    dmuk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

So, as we slide into autumn, it only remains for me to thank all our 
customers for your support and patience, and please drop us a line if 
you have any suggestions or queries

Best Wishes

Martin Gutkowski
DeLorean Motors UK Ltd
www.delorean.co.uk



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