[dscott]

I thought I would let everyone know the progress I am making to get CR II up and running.

The move has been ongoing for 4 weeks now. 14 semi loads so far from the main building and 4 more to go. I haven't even thought about the other building yet but I estimate at least 15 loads from there. I have 6 people full time dedicated to the move.

We have the upholstery shop up and running so things should start moving through there pretty soon.

The welding shop is setup and we starting welding our first Cobra frame today. Badlands doors are also being produced.

I have been working with the vendors daily to establish a working relationship with them. Since the history with CR is very poor this has been a real problem at times. The company that was doing the wiring decided they didn't want the business so I had to find a new supplier which I did. I have been ordering parts every day to fill the many backorders and I have shipped some parts but there is alot to go.

The phone has been ringing off the hook every day. I took over 1000 calls in the 1st 3 weeks.

Jay @ Classic by Elite has been a blessing. He has been taking most of the calls lately which has allowed me to work on getting the business up. We had a lot of trouble with the web site. It was shut down for spamming which I understand came from the CR webmaster. Jay's web guru fixed it and has started on a new site. We will have some of the old site there, the tech area was used by many of the Sebring owners much the same way this site is for Cobras. We will have that back up. Jay has been working on many other areas also, advertising, brochures, etc.

I have a 100 x 120 pole shed that we are using for cold storage of the larger items. We have been working on that getting all the racking built. We built some from wood and some are steel. I also have an old dairy barn which is about 160 x 50 with 2 isles running down the center. We have filled 1 isle so far with old parts and molds.

Hours have been long, my ear is a permanent red color from the phone. I broke down and got a cell phone after I swore them off about 10 years ago. I am taking all the old CR computers and trying to make some sense of the data and what is useable. I have files from hell. There are over 20- 4 drawer cabinets full!! Books, manuals, files, parts, vendors, employees, trucks, trailers, forklifts, racks, buildings, welding, upholstery, fiberglass, etc. I absolutely love it. I'm having a good time, doing something I really like, and my wife still loves me even though I only get to see her about 1 hour a day.

Everything is falling into place. We will hit our goal of filling all backorders within the 60 to 90 day period. Some minor gliches but all in all everything is good.

I have a few pictures to post that shows some of the progress.
The first one is of some of the wood racks we built.
Don