Ron,
I chose Olthoff for a few reasons:
1. He prepped most if not all of the first dealers' cars coming into the states and I was fairly close behind them.
2. Shipping time to the east coast was several weeks shorter.
3. I am an Oregon resident and the purchase was made through Oregon. I have a business in CA and didn't want to confuse that state.
4. I don't know any shops in southern Oregon to complete the car.
5. I thought about driving the car back from NC to OR as a nice road trip (not in December however).
6. No shops in CA had experience with the SPF GT40 product; even Lance Stander of Superformance had his completed at Olthoff.
The delay in delivery is the RBT Trans and no dealer is getting better delivery than Olthoff (my understanding). Most, if not all, of the SPF - RBT buys are going through Olthoff.
He received two trannies from RBT in the last 45 days (Olthoff words) and one of those was not worthy. He has the only new box in the USA (not already delivered to the end user I assume) and he is keeping it as a spare until more arrive. These are words from Dennis Olthoff paraphrased by me based on a phone conversation this morning.
Luckily for me, I am good at waiting.
Regards,
Mike
