I have been following these proceedings with some interest, as the owner of a 1967 Imperial myself. However, I consider myself a neutral third party for two reasons. First, I don't have any financial stake as to whether or not this deal goes through or not. And second, I have already found an engineering solution to the problem of non-existent rotors which is satisfactory to me. The idea of having parts reproduced for our cars is a great one. However, I think it was approached all wrong. Someone now has to grapple with trying to get a whole bunch of people on board, get their payments in, etc. The way this should have been handled is someone should have seen the opportunity, and ordered whatever quantity was necessary to get a batch run done. 50 rotors, or whatever. They would have outlaid the initial $10,000, or whatever, and then resold them to people as they were interested. This takes risk. I undertook a similar risk when I had cornering lenses recast for the '67 Imperials. But I didn't have to deal with coordinating orders with the supplier and getting orders lined up before pulling the trigger. This also isolated the manufacturer from these headaches (something manufacturers are grateful for, they prefer just to manufacture). As I said, I have found a way around the Budd rotor inavailability that for me makes good sense, and costs around 1/2 what getting these rotors made costs. If someone were against a hard place with rotors like I was with cornering lenses, they should have made the cash outlay and comissioned a run made of the rotors, which they would have then acted as dealer on. I wish you all the best of luck with these rotors, and I do hope that we do see repro's made of them to keep our dear cars on the road. I just think that forming a collective was not necessarily the best way to get this done. --Mike Pittinaro "Forsake Inhibitions. Pursue thy Dreams." __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ----------------- http://www.imperialclub.com ----------------- This message was sent to you by the Imperial Mailing List. Please reply to mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and your response will be shared with everyone. Private messages (and attachments) for the Administrators should be sent to webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To UN-SUBSCRIBE, go to http://imperialclub.com/unsubscribe.htm