[Shotimes] LEAVING THE SHO PARTS BUSINESS

[Kirk Doucette]

Im a lot smaller scale than Al, Al has always been the go to guy.. Time wise
Im only able to get to so many auctions or spend the time on the Internet
with the online auction companies.

Seeing Al is going out and I think this is to Bad to see one of the GOOD
guys leave, Ill do what I can to take up some of the slack. I only had 27
parts cars last year to supply parts to people, this year I have not had a
single car as of yet..

I let the last two of them go, 1 was a 96 cam failure and was beat, they got
3300.00 for it.. that is way to much for a 96 with the miles and in the
condition it was in.  Other was a blue 95 MTX which a lot of people want,
but somehow I lost that one too, it was wiped out real good with the trunk
being lodged in the back seat they still got over 1000 for it..

Parting cars is not a "great" business.  Take the ave cam failed car.. You
pay 1000.00 plus shipping, plus the disassembly costs, disposal fees and
storage your looking at almost 1500-2000 for the car. Then you are asked to
sell parts from the car where you cant make money at it. I mainly use this
and motor mounts that I make as a time filler.  Storing the caucus too for
future parts sales are out as well, because you never know all the parts
that someone needs. I was asked for a door handle spring for a gen 2, I was
told that they could get one for 5$ and wanted to see if I could beat the
price.. Well you know me I said sure Ill do it for 4.00 but 50.00 for labor
to tear in to the car to tear it down for the part that was requested..   Im
sure AL ran into this as well as the cars can be had for 100.00 now and16 yr
old "Johhny" has no other income so its 5$ more then he had.  Its hard to
compete with that..  But it is America.

Anyway .. Good Luck Al and thanks for the parts that I have received from
you in the past..   Will you be attending this years convention?



Kirk J Doucette
NESHOC President
Stormtrooper-97 White

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Wills [mailto:rwills@nc.rr.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 4:34 PM
To: Donald Mallinson
Cc: Al Fitz; _SHOtimes; v8sho@v8sho.com
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] LEAVING THE SHO PARTS BUSINESS

Throw them all in a truck & send it to Kirk?
--
Richard Wills
'99 TR welded

Donald Mallinson wrote:

> Al,
>
> I am sorry to hear you have to give up this valuable
> resource to the SHO Community, but I think we can all
> understand why.  I thank you for what you have done in the
> past, and what you tried to do.
>
> If anyone has the desire to get into the SHO used parts
> business big time, here is a good start on it!  Sure be a
> shame to see all those cars crushed.
>
> Since I had a tiny idea this might happen, Jan and I made a
> point of stopping and seeing this facility and meeting AL
> and his son in person a couple weeks ago.
>
> Look for a full pictorial and write-up in the SHOclub
> magazine soon.
>
> Again, Al, thanks for helping out a lot of SHO owners.  and
> also, everyone remember that Al is still offering his
> SHO/Yamaha emblems and other things on his web site:
>
> http://www.alfitz.com/sho/
>
> Don Mallinson, President
> SHO Club
>
> Al Fitz wrote:
>
> > GREETINGS to the SHO community.
> >
> > We are getting out of the SHO used parts business and It is my sad duty
to
> > announce that we will be crushing our inventory of SHOs before the end
of
> > April. We will remove the most popular parts first but then the bodies
will be
> > destroyed. We plan on storing the most popular parts and selling them
off
> > until they're gone.
> >
> > We have been selling SHO parts for several years now and have shipped to
more
> > than 14 countries. We have a customer base numbering in the thousands.
> > Unfortunately we have never made a profit and cannot continue to run
this
> > charitable enterprise.
> >
> > We want to thank our customers for their support. Over the years, 99.9 %
of
> > all of our transactions have been a wonderful experience. Unfortunately
that
> > .1 percent that have ripped us off by stopping payment on credit cards
and bad
> > checks has cost us over $5,000.
> >
> > We would like to see someone take over the operation, but being located
in
> > Central Nebraska has a big drawback for finding a new owner.
> >
> > We have 50 SHOs we are selling for $100-$300. None have engines or
trannys and
> > are in various states of disassembly. We have 89-98 SHOs available. If
anyone
> > wants one, they will have to be paid for within 7 days and removed by
April
> > 30th.
> >
> >
> >
> > My family, who all drive SHOs, will continue to do so, but supplying the
SHO
> > community with these hard to find parts will be coming to an end.
> >
> >
> >
> > Al Fitz
> > Midwest Repairables
> > 5150 South Elk Drive
> > Grand Island NE 68803
> > 308 398-5211
> >
> > Al Fitz
> > alfitz@alfitz.com
> > http://www.alfitz.com
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