[Ron Earp]

Hi Mike, agreed, and I hope I wasn't too negative in the post. There appears to be a lot of demand in OZ and for sure a savvy manufacturer can keep busy. I just don't think they should assume the US/UK market is wide open for them because it'll take time to win respect back, a lot of time, and just a couple of cars over here from the new company won't do it.

With respect to existing cars I wonder how many of them there really are. When I met with Hershal a while back I think we enumerated 10-12 running cars in the US, plus about an equal number under construction. So, let's say 25 in the US. There are only two in the UK, and I don't know how many down under.

I was told by one person close to the factory that the numbers were not what I thought they were. So, looking at chassis 108 didn't mean there were 107 chassis before it. In fact, he suggested that many numbers had been skipped, some in blocks, and there were probably half as many cars out there as one might think. I don't know how many are running around Australia so it is hard to know. As for parts supply, there may not be that many RF cars out there as we once thought.

Anyhow, I'm sure the new owner can do fine in Australia where the name didn't seem to take a hit. I only know of one affected Australian customer and some customers were supposedly taking their partial built cars and kits out of the facility some time before all of this went down. Understandably, they are not vocal about happenings lest they get caught up in all of this stuff.

Best,
Ron