Dear Customers,

It’s hard to believe June is gone already. It seems May was only yesterday. Business seems to be good in all sectors of the After market and all sections of the country. Everybody is busy. Life is good!

We’ve had a fair amount of rain lately but despite my admonitions it did fall on the grass so we’ll be cutting grass again soon. I guess everything can’t be perfect.

We continue to have a few problems with customers using our answering service. One problem is people speaking so rapidly that we can hardly understand them. This is particularly aggravating when it comes to phone numbers. Please be sure to speak a little more slowly when leaving phone numbers. It is also very helpful if you leave your number even when you know we have it on file so we don’t have to look it up. It will make for a quicker return call. If you let us know what you need when you call then we can probably call with an answer rather than a "what do you need" question that may require some research and another call back. The other problem is people who listen to the whole message and hang up after the beep. We use a phone company provided service so you can leave a message even if both our lines are busy You can tell by the message if someone is there but on the phone. It is fine if you don’t want to leave a message but when you wait for the tone to hang up it costs us money each time to listen to the click. If you don’t want to leave a message please hang up when you get the recording. Once the service picks up we cannot answer the phone. We can only retrieve the message a minute or so later.

We are looking for pictures of our customer’s cars to put on our web site. Particularly in the case of circle track cars, they don’t have to be of the car when it was new. We all know these cars get beat up a lot and nobody expects a trailer queen. We’ve had some trouble with our scanner recently which I hope to work out this weekend so we will have a few new pictures up next week.

Steve Drummond continued his winning ways last month. He won Super Gas both days at the East Coast Doorslammers Nationals at Maryland International Raceway in Bud’s Creek, Maryland. He is really on a roll lately. I also incorrectly reported him as runner up in the Quick 8 at US 13 Dragway on April 18^th. He actually won the Quick 8 and Super Pro that day.

Scott Little of Complete Auto Machine, Dora, AL. picked up another win in his #21 Mini Modified Toyota at Birmingham International Speedway. He was closely followed by Johnny Rotenberry in the #8 car with a Toyota engine built by Scott. These two racers frequently have 1-2 finishes in this class.

Dan Pogorzala of Pogo Machine in Tonawanda, NY has a winner in Rich Sennet at Ransomville Speedway who has won 5 of 9 features in the Super Stock class.

Hollywood Machine in Richmond, VA reports that Bubba Flexon #16 Enduro car has 1 win at Southside Speedway in Richmond, VA and 2 wins at South Hampton Speedway in Capron, VA. John Eversole continues to dominate the Grand Stock class at Southside Speedway with 7 wins and at South Hampton with 3 wins.

Thank you all for your support.

Yours truly,

Charles, Harriett, Clarence, Debra, & Chuck