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11-17-2008, 07:33 PM
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CC Member
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Milford,
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Cobra Make, Engine: BRG ERA street car w/428 PI, Sunburst wheels, undercar exhaust, original interior, no philips head screws!
Posts: 650
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How's business for everyone?
I live in the Northeast and own two small businesses...Just curious how things are going around the country.
Both of my businesses are tech based. One is a Mac consulting company, the other is a telcom cabling business.
The Mac business is solid with a couple of standing service visits canceled and a bunch of people scheduling service one day and canceling the next. All in all not a huge change yet.
The telcom cabling business is slow. Election week seemed like a switch shut everything off. Just came off an incredible 4 months, had a large NYC network cancel last week and bidding is extremely tight. People are asking for things broken down to the nut and bolt.
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11-18-2008, 05:43 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Senoia,
Ga.
Cobra Make, Engine: 427SO with big twin autolite inlines on custom intake, jag rear, top loader, wembeldon white, guardsmen blue stripes
Posts: 3,155
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Small construction business and slow as he$$, to stay busy I built one piece of equipment and working on another. Picking up a little work here and there, nothing to get excited about. I started this business after early retirement and thankful I'm debt free. Enjoying the beast a little more and noticed with cooler weather, I need to warm up these new tires before they grip.....Found out real fast when I did a 360 in front of the local coffee cafe...whew!..
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Perry
Remember!, there's a huge difference between a 'parts' changer, and a mechanic.
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11-18-2008, 01:07 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Cobra Make, Engine: Venom 427sc
Posts: 212
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i work for a fortune 16 company in medical sales. we are off 8% overall.
We see a definte slow down which i have not seen in 20 years doing this job.
joeg
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11-18-2008, 02:35 PM
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CC Member
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Williamsport,
PA
Cobra Make, Engine: Kellison Stallion 468 FE
Posts: 2,703
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contract manufacturing\ machining.....
semiconductor, opthalmalic, automotive, medical. all sectors of mine suck to say the least.
http://www.origincorp.net/
however it was worse in 2000. so far, after jan i do think it will be worse.
if any of you purchase machined parts, there are bargains to be had, contact me.
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11-18-2008, 03:04 PM
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CC Member
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Jacksonville Beach,
Fl
Cobra Make, Engine: Antique&Collectible 392 stroked
Posts: 155
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I live in north Florida. I work in new home construction and renovations. There is not any where near the amount of work here like there was a couple of years ago.
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11-18-2008, 03:36 PM
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CC Member
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Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Mechanicsville!,
PA
Cobra Make, Engine: Unique 427SC/331/5 forward
Posts: 922
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Ah.
Engineering for a state government entity. Have marching orders from the governor of the state to put $2.5 Billion worth of contracts on the street in 2009. Another $9+ Billion to follow in the next 4 or 5 years. Enough to take me solidly into retirement, thank God. Next 10 years going to be busy.
Yes, I am grateful and humble. This, after 30 years as a consultant, laid off twice in that period, several lean periods with kids to feed.
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11-18-2008, 03:53 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Tucson,
Az
Cobra Make, Engine: Superformance 427 Side-Oiler
Posts: 2,156
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I see the slow down(s) coming before anyone else.ANd i have news for ya'll-it's gonna get worse.We have had NO Christmas rush this year.
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11-18-2008, 04:02 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Greenville,
SC
Cobra Make, Engine: 70 Shelby convertible, ERA-289 FIA, 65 Sunbeam Tiger, mystery Ford powered 2dr convertible
Posts: 12,736
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Business is down roughly 60% from the same time last year.
Bill S.
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11-18-2008, 05:30 PM
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CC Member
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Milford,
CT
Cobra Make, Engine: BRG ERA street car w/428 PI, Sunburst wheels, undercar exhaust, original interior, no philips head screws!
Posts: 650
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Keep'em coming guys...
I'm also as of late getting a lot of calls for quotes which we are doing and then you never hear from people again. They will not return your call, email, etc. Even to say we went with someone else, ran out of money...nothing...
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11-18-2008, 06:07 PM
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Charter Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Jan 1999
Location: Sublimity,,
OR
Cobra Make, Engine: My Shell Valley Coupe is here! Now the building begins....
Posts: 1,409
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Logging in the Northwest is terrible, I have contracts and have a couple of scheduled layoffs coming in the next month.
Paper mills are closing fast, now that the liberals won it seems there is less need for Kleenex.
The only bright spot is export logs, China BUILD BABY BUILD!
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Working as hard as I can every day to double my carbon footprint.
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11-18-2008, 08:38 PM
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Beam Me Up Scottie
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Squantum (part of Quincy),
MA
Cobra Make, Engine: SPF1049 Titanium w/black stripes, 351W with Trick Flow Heads, Tremec 3550
Posts: 7,592
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Retired. Business has been flat at ZERO for almost 6 years.
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Warren
'Liberals are maggots upon the life of this planet and need to get off at the next rotation.' (Jamo 2008)
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11-19-2008, 01:57 AM
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Senior Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Shasta Lake,
CA
Cobra Make, Engine:
Posts: 26,599
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I saw in the news yesterday that many doctors that have private practices are going to be closing and some that work in the HMOs are going to quit. Two more businesses here closed last week and another is going to lay off most of their people and seese if they can survive until the economy turns around. I now see people looking on the ground for pennies.
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11-19-2008, 06:38 AM
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Member of the north
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Join Date: May 2003
Cobra Make, Engine: A Cobra
Posts: 11,207
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I used to work at Delphi...need I say more???
I'm at an auto manufacturer now and well, my group is short on people.
I just hope we don't change plans.
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11-19-2008, 10:53 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: ranburne,
al
Cobra Make, Engine: unique,302
Posts: 122
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I sell business research
for the university in east central alabama and can go over the state if the contract is big enough, and we are slow, cities, counties, business are all pulling back.One city i recently did a proposal for took my proposal methodology ,re-wrote it into an rfp and sent it to all my competitors.Haven,t pulled in a good contract in six months.But, the general economy is good here, unemployment is low, but climbing, construction is level, lot of folks work in auto manuf. plants, tier one, two, three, four suppliers.Another point for american auto. manuf., is labor costs has taken rd funds away so our products are not competitive in the market . Jap. cars are the best, european, next best and american cars ,last as far as quality. We drive Buicks, mustang, and chevy truck at our house--get good service from lesabre, and no qualms from mustang.Put 411,000 miles on park avenue once--good car.Country is hurting, but most of the root causes are caused by washington.Will-alabama
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11-19-2008, 11:41 AM
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CC Member
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Cobra Make, Engine: # 757 ERA 427 SC , 482 Al. big block
Posts: 896
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Will ... interesting comment about a city taking your proposal , rewriting it and sending it to your competitors . Had that happen to me some years ago , so I started being as vague as I could get away with ... and when pinned down , I put false data , circuits that had errors in them and sized components wrong . If I got the bid , I just corrected the errors .... if my competitor got it using my stuff .... well ... tough $hit . I actually had a company try to come back on me to rectify a problem my competitor had using my sizing calculations on the hydraulic motors . I bet you can guess what I told them !
It`s a shame that business has sunk to that level .... I can remember when things were done on a handshake .
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11-19-2008, 02:21 PM
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Join Date: Apr 1999
Location: cleveland,
OH
Cobra Make, Engine: CSX4000, 427
Posts: 1,999
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I'm in the medical business, treating pain. Been very busy, slowly increasing each year. Good thing there are alot people in pain. The more people suffer the better it is for me.
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"After jumping into an early lead, Miles pitted for no reason. He let the entire field go by before re-entering the race. The crowd was jumping up and down as he stunned the Chevrolet drivers by easily passing the entire field to finish second behind MacDonald's other team Cobra. The Corvette people were completely demoralized."
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11-19-2008, 03:22 PM
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Senior Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Orange Park,
FL.
Cobra Make, Engine: n/a
Posts: 1,596
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Anthony
I'm in the medical business, treating pain. Been very busy, slowly increasing each year. Good thing there are alot people in pain. The more people suffer the better it is for me.
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Are you a sadist by trade?  
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20mph is not fast, unless you are doing it in a 3/2, 1000sq. ft. house on 10 ft. waves! 
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11-19-2008, 03:29 PM
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6th Generation Texan
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Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Devil's Backbone,RR 32,
TX
Cobra Make, Engine: Lone Star Classics #240,Candy Apple Red,Keith Craft 418w - 602 HP,584 TQ
Posts: 8,157
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He may have a counter in his office that sells whips and handcuffs too.
Maybe Mistress Mandy punishes the bad patients ?
Last edited by 392cobra; 11-19-2008 at 05:48 PM..
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11-22-2008, 05:24 AM
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CC Member
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Join Date: Apr 1999
Location: cleveland,
OH
Cobra Make, Engine: CSX4000, 427
Posts: 1,999
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Quote:
Originally Posted by imagine2frolic
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I've been called that before, as my job usually entails inserting large long needles in various places of your body.
Actually, when I'm finished, the vast majority of the people I have seen are doing better from compared to when they originally came to me, and are much appreciative of that.
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"After jumping into an early lead, Miles pitted for no reason. He let the entire field go by before re-entering the race. The crowd was jumping up and down as he stunned the Chevrolet drivers by easily passing the entire field to finish second behind MacDonald's other team Cobra. The Corvette people were completely demoralized."
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