I agree with you wholeheartedly Oliver on the need for more regional service providers. Jeff is good friends with John Hervey and speaks with him pretty often, but I don't think he's in close contact with any of the other big names in the community. Jeff hopes to make John Hervey his main supplier if his shop comes into fruition, and naturally anything John doesn't carry Jeff will outsource from the larger vendors. Jeff will also likely come up with many solutions on his own. For instance, he's having a batch of headers fabricated for the DeLorean as we speak. Jeff lives in Concord, NC... where many NASCAR and various other racing teams are headquartered. There are countless fabricators and race suppliers in Concord who between all of them can make about anything for the DeLorean (Jeff has been in contact with many of these shops with his ideas). In fact Jeff is working on a very big performance project which he hopes to be able to unveil in Pheasant Run. He has shops that are willing to get into turbo charging and fabricate components for engine swapping as well. Again, Jeff's intention is to provide a small, regional service center for our cars that offers services currently unavailable to our community. He strongly feels he will not draw business from the larger vendors, but will instead bring them more money by ordering parts from them. I know for many owners in this area that the $1k+ roundtrip shipping to get our cars to one of the major service providers is a big factor in not sending our cars to them. I could use that $1k on more parts from the vendors if I could get my car serviced here... so in the end everyone would win. I'll keep the list posted on any new progress with this venture. Louie Golden VIN 5252 Charlotte, NC --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Holler <thehauntfactory@xxxx> wrote: Naturally, I'm all for another GOOD service center, just as DMCH themselves has been preaching for some time. It seems we gots the parts, but few qualified service places that know how to treat a DeLorean. Although testing the waters and doing a DML discussion is nice, I would be interested to know if Jeff has established some good lines of communication with James, Rob, Don, Dave, etc. I would think a healthy cooperative alliance with the long established DeLorean service experts would be highly desirable, if not critical. When the other garages are really backed up, or a helluva long distance away, (particularly in the dead of Winter's snow storms), it sure would be nice to have a Carolina 'tweener' to fill in the gap. Oliver Myrtle Beach, South Carolina Vin#10694 To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxxxxxxxxx For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see www.dmcnews.com To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: dmcnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/