Go to MYRIDE.COM for more car videos. If it wasn’t for General Motors, Isuzu’s presence in the United States would’ve likely vanished several years ago. In fact, many have considered this Japanese automaker out of the US market for quite some time now, but their small dealer network continues to sell 2 vehicles: the I-series pickup, and this SUV called the Ascender.
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This tool quickly removes various types of plastic fasteners that hold on weather stripping, radiator shrouds, fender linings, air dams and other plastic or rubber parts. The tool is equipped with a sliding urethane button for use when extra leverage is necessary.
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The story of how we came to be in the wholesale parts business centers around our friendship with Derek and Louise Whitehead, owners of Santee Industries. Located in the San Fernando valley north of Los Angeles, they had a small metal tubing/ heli-arc welding job shop specializing in piece work for other manufacturers. One of their employees was a biker who convinced them to bend up some handlebars called "eight bends". They sold them through a small ad in the back of Ed Roth’s "Choppers" magazine. We came by to buy some of these bars on our very first buying trip to stock our new store in the fall of 1969.
Derek was a smart, enthusiastic businessman who was always interested in making something new or better. He was already selling to Gary Bang who had a retail store in the valley selling all kinds of motorcycle parts and accessories. Every time I visited his office over the next few years he always wanted to know how he could improve what he was already making or what new part we needed to meet the needs of our customers. This led to our discussing our problems with obtaining products from AEE Choppers. Tom McMullen had copied a Harley-Davidson part known as a hardtail, including developing versions for Triumph, BSA and Honda motorcycles. We waited months for our orders to arrive at the shop, missing many sales opportunities and disappointed our customers. One by one we shipped or delivered to Derek each model hardtail, suggesting minor improvements or changes. He in turn quickly developed oil tanks and battery boxes for each, including the necessary mounting tabs for each on the hardtail itself. These proved to be exactly what people wanted and both Santee’s and our sales increased rapidly.
Always asking for the best possible price, knowing we were cash customers on our buying trips to southern California, most offered us discounts for volume purchases. This led to Derek explaining the manufacturer/distributor/retailer model of the automotive industry to Chris and I. He wanted to base his business plan on that dynamic and encouraged both Gary Bang and us to setup wholesale operations, print catalogs and warehouse his products. At this point in 1970 I had already quit my job at the newspaper and gone to work at the shop full time. We were doubling our sales every month and turning over the inventory every 6 to 8 weeks. Still underfunded like most startups, we took only minimal pay and plowed all the profits into more inventory. Taking Derek’s advice, we set about printing a catalog and price sheets. Placing ads in Street Chopper magazine and Easyriders we quickly had dealers and retail mail order customers buying from us. In January 1972 we drove the shop van back to Cincinnati, Ohio and rented a 10×10 booth at the annual powersports dealer show. Passing out catalogs, we were the only "pure custom parts" distributor at the show and wrote very little business while there. However, two weeks after we got back to California the phone started ringing and we soon couldn’t keep up with the orders.
This leads the story to Ty Cruze and Nace Panzica, owners of Coast Cycle in San Jose, CA. A retail outlet selling off road, street and touring parts,accessories and clothing. They quickly became our single biggest customer for Santee products and were located just 80 miles from Stockton. One day Derek Whitehead called me to report he had just been approached by Ty and Nace to become distributors, turning them down he explained we were his Northern California distributor. He just wanted to confirm to us that he had in fact turned them down. Thinking it over, I called him back the next day and explained we had been back ordered on at least 50% of Coast Cycle orders because we just didn’t have the inventory to support their volume of business. We were underfunded still and it would be in both of our interests if he started selling them direct. He replied that he would require them to print catalogs, buy in minimum lots just like us and conduct a dealer resale business, not just retail the products from their existing store. Thus was born "Custom Chrome Inc."
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The original De Lorean Motor Company (DMC) was a short-lived automobile manufacturer formed by automobile industry executive John De Lorean in 1975. It is remembered for the one model it produced — the distinctive stainless steel De Lorean DMC-12 sports car featuring gull-wing doors — and for its brief and turbulent history, ending in receivership and bankruptcy in 1982. Near the end, in a desperate attempt to raise the funds his company needed to survive, John De Lorean was filmed appearing to accept money to take part in drug trafficking, but was subsequently acquitted of charges brought against him on the basis of entrapment.
The De Lorean DMC-12 shot to worldwide fame in the Back to the Future movie trilogy as the car made into a time machine by eccentric scientist Doctor Emmett L. Brown, although the company had ceased to exist before the first movie was made.
In 1995, Texas entrepreneur Stephen Wynne started a separate company using the "De Lorean Motor Company" name and shortly thereafter acquired the remaining parts inventory and the stylized "DMC" logo trademark of De Lorean Motor Company. The current De Lorean Motor Company located near Houston is not, and has never been, associated with the original company but supports owners of De Lorean cars. DMC (Texas), as they are known, has an additional five authorized, franchised dealers in Bonita Springs, Florida; Crystal Lake, Illinois; Garden Grove, California; Bellevue, Washington and Hem, The Netherlands.
Reception by the car buying public and automotive magazines was mixed. Although the early vehicles had impressive waiting lists of anxious consumers, the MSRP sticker price of ,000 (,500 in 2008 dollars) was cost-prohibitive for the majority of the market — especially for what many considered to be an under-powered and impractical plaything. "It’s not a barn burner," observed Road & Track, "(with) a 0-60 mph time of 10.5 seconds. Frankly, that’s not quick for a sports/GT car in this price category." The stainless steel body panels were an attractive design concept and impervious to corrosion, but in practice the sheen surface tended to show fingerprints. It also meant that the car could not be easily painted; every factory original De Lorean looked virtually identical. Some dealerships painted their cars on delivery to help make theirs more distinctive. DMC was testing the use of translucent paint to help provide different color options on the cars while also allowing the stainless steel grain to show through, but no cars were sold with factory painted body panels. The only factory option initially available was an automatic transmission. A grey interior was offered later in 1981 as an alternative to the standard black interior. Several accessories including pinstriping and luggage racks helped provide further individuality.
In 1981, it was reported there were plans to have made a 4-door version of the car (perhaps on a longer wheelbase) for 1983. It was to have been of stainless steel, and with gullwing doors.
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Belkin’s Laptop Cooling Stand relies on a patented wave design and ergonomic features that will not only help protect your laptop by keeping it cool, but will also increase your comfort while you work. As part of Belkin’s laptop@home line of accessories, the Laptop Cooling Stand is designed to help you to take full advantage of the benefits your laptop has to offer– comfortably, economically, and stylistically.
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