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Originally Posted by LVCamaro
I was surprised Cepek shut down here, after all the $$$ I was spending in your store...lol.
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Me too- I moved back to NJ in 1999, and when I went back for a visit in 2000, they were shut down. I guess you must have had a slow period at that time, and it put them under....lol.
Seems the only thing left of the company is the Radial FC tire design that M/T bought. Those were the most out-of-round tires ever made, so God only knows why M/T wanted them....lol. Of course, Tom Cepek (who inherited the company from Daddy) spent more time flying around and playing with his planes than he did on the business, so that probably didn't help either.
I remember one time he flew into LV and saw that we had a box of sidebars that we were shipping to the store in Garden Grove, CA. To try to save the $15 in UPS charges, he and his son (we used to call him "Spaulding" after the kid in Caddyshack) spent 30 minutes trying to tie them to the roof of the Saturn that Signature Air had lent him, then spent another hour trying to stuff them into the cargo hold of his plane. They came back later that afternoon with the box all mangled, and after having wasted around 4 manhours, ended up sending them to CA via UPS anyway. How's that for "effective use of time"??? lol
Bob