[Keithc8]

I want to let my customers know and hopefully and future customers that I am not retiring anytime soon. I more or less wanted to see if there was anyone young or old that might have an interest in getting thir feet wet in this business.
There would be no way I do not think that someone could walk in one day and me leave the next. I just want to slow down a little on my end and just wanted to see if there was anyone interested in getting into this business that had a true desire. This would take someone that had a love for cars and engines and wanted more than a job. It is getting harder and harder to find those kind of people.
I have good employees that could pretty much run the shop without me as long as the work was rolling in. Well as we know that does not just happen without talking with people and being involved with activities that put you in touch with car people. My engine assembler Jeff Henry has been with me 15 years and I would put him up against anyone anywhere. He is one of the few like me that when his name goes on something he wants it the best it can be. You have to have pride in your work and have a desire to be the best.
Like someone here said Roush has very little to do with the crate engine business. Pretty much got approached with an ideal to do the crate engine deal when his shop slowed down. Other people run it and he said do not do anything to hurt my name. They have done a pretty good job with that, but you will not call there and talk about a problem with Jack Roush, he has other things to do.
I started my shop about 17 years ago after splitting with a partner. I had a 3000 square foot building and myself for about a year and then Jeff came to work for me and then about 4 months later my brother-in-law. We three took it from there up to about a 12,000 square foot shop, ten employees and about 20 engines a month sold to about 20 different countries world wide.
Know with over 2 million invested and three children I will not retire in the next year but do plan to slow down some. So I hope that we can keep doing business with the Cobra community because it has been good to us. Just checking and looking for a few options in the future.
By the way the profit margins are tight in this business and I do not see how some of these others places can compete with us with our location and lower overhead. I tell people we are not the cheapest and we are not the most expensive but somewhere in between.
Thanks for the post and private e-mails and be sure we will not leave our customers high and dry.

Thanks, Keith Craft