[urq] Re: Tough times

Tony Lum tlum at flash.net
Fri May 30 22:04:53 EDT 2003


At 08:34 PM 5/30/2003 -0400, JShadzi at aol.com wrote:
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>Hey Tony, sorry to hear about that...this is quite common in this area,
>however, and there has been a trend of businesses (many machine shops/Auto
>repair
>shops) moving out of the Bay Area in the last 10 years or so due expensive
>real-estate costs, growing labor costs and overall cost of doing business
>expenses.  One example was a great muffler shop called Custom Muffler,
>they actually
>had a true mandrel tube bender, the shop was usually full of Porsches,
>Ferraris, built up muscle cars, etc.  They did amazing work for reasonable
>prices,
>like $65/hr.  Couple of years ago they up and closed shop, last I heard
>the guy
>moved out to the central valley somewhere and opened a shop there.  Another
>great head shop I used to use, B&B machine left due to similar reasons.
>
>Its just a tough area to do business sometimes, and when the economy is in a
>slump everyone suffers.
>
>Javad

I think he's just fed up.  I asked him today if he would consider doing a
turbo engine swap in my 4kq, just the mechanical only, I would do the rest
and he said no.  I think he just doing standard servicing only.  After
shutting down, he's going back to Texas for a month to see his
family.  BTW, his brother is one of the operators of European Precision in
Houston, Texas.

Tony




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