. . EMAIL
:
Emailed
orders received on the weekend are many times ready to
ship out on Monday. Whenever
possible we like to turn emails back around to you as
quick as possible, in no relation to any "open" hours or
days. Send
it as soon as you think of it. There have been times when
I've been moving parts from storage and taken a break and
answered email at 1am...
PHONE
:
So
we are just going to do them. It won't slow down our
shipping; but will surely reduce the time we have
available to stay near the phone. If you want to resolve
things quickly; please email if you can. If you can't;
please leave your name, number and a clue as to what the
call is about and the best time to call you if we are out
when you call. The car VIN would help as well. We can
return emails and calls anytime from 10 am to midnight
most days. Thanks, Dann 10
am - 5 pm (some
weeks Monday through Saturday ) We
return calls Monday through Friday and many times on the
weekends. You can also fax your order in 24 hours a
day. Parts
are shipped as soon as we get the necessary
information from you; regardless of whether we are
"closed" or appear to be "closed". In all truthfulness;
this place is almost never really closed. The shipping
and emails sure don't stop. One
of the biggest projects is cataloging everything that is
in all of our storage buildings and "borrowed" garages,
extra rooms etc. New and Rebuilt. Used stuff; ugly to
nice and everywhere in between.
CLOSED
: Any
other closures will be posted at the top of this page as
soon as possible. If you can send an email we can usually
get back to you quicker than a phone message. In
reality; we are usually shipping parts and answering the
phone and email as usual. Feel free to call/email
anytime.
SHIPPING
: . WEIRD
HOURS/DAYS...WHY? Since
the roadster and most of its owners are also
unconventional this has not been a problem. I had enough
of buzzers going off telling me when to work, eat, leave;
during the short time I worked as a robot at Boeing 40
years ago. Sometimes
we decide to work 80 hours in a week (or the parts orders
decide it). Many times the "closed days" are Rallye
project catchup days and we do manage to get email out.
With so many people choosing to email it doesn't seem to
matter as much when we are here as the emails come in 24
hours a day. Spend
time with your pets, your family, your friends and
yourself. Life passes quickly. Most
of all, keep on smiling; it's contagious. Dann . ASAP
ORDERS: Typically
orders placed before 2pm the day before we "close" will
either be shipped or we will notify you via email if the
order will be delayed (if you have emailed your order, or
if you have sent us an email in addition to your phone or
fax order. This is always a good idea as the orders are
done at night and if we have a question we can send an
email much quicker. Orders can usually get shipped
assuming we have all the required info to ship the order
i.e. DURING
"NORMAL" TIMES... Phone
calls where you already have your prices and part numbers
are of course much quicker than if you don't. This
applies to both the call and time to shipment, as orders
sent in already completed by you are always done much
sooner then ones we have to workup ourselves. It's
usually cheaper for you as well as the prices on the
website may be less than the list we use for orders
without part numbers. Be sure your browser is set to look
at a new version of the page everytime you access the
site, or manually hit "refresh:" or "reload". If your
browser isn't set that way you may be looking at a
version of the page you stored yesterday last week or
last month. Parts and prices can change any hour of any
day. If there's something you can't find please email me
and I'll get you pointed in the right direction or fix
the problem. If
possible send us an email note even if you are faxing in
an order or calling. All kinds of questions can come up
when the order is processed, zipping you an email at
midnight keeps everything going on a timely basis. If we
have your email address, we can send you the information
so you can track the package at ups.com Our
phone BUSY?...Let's say you have already emailed your
order in and we've gone back and forth as necessary with
questions, changes etc. You've already given the other
information (billing address, phone number, vin number of
car, part numbers and prices). Now all that's left is to
give us the charge card info, and you want to do that via
phone. If our phones are tied up please email in the
phone number(s) and hours where you wish be reached and
one of us will call for the last bit of info that will
get the parts on their way to you. We can many times do
this at night and on weekends as well. Thanks. Dann .

In
reality we send email out seven days a week 9 to
midnight.; most days of the
week.
Many times when we may say we are "closed" it is the
phone only that suffers due to running errands and
completing projects; the email usually continues
onward!
NOV
2012 NOTE: There
are some large projects of a pressing nature we have been
putting off for well; decades? I had thought we would
complete them when Rallye finished 30 years and we
retired; then it was 35; now we're into year 37 with no
sight of land on the horizon.
1st
- 5th + Major Holidays
Monday
thru Friday
Since
we first helped someone else with a parts or service task
some thirty five years ago we have always had
unconventional operating hours and days. Now that we can
post any changes to the world in a few minutes it is less
of a problem.
You
can get a jump on the when-we-reopen-orders by emailing
or faxing in your order during the closure. Those orders
are done in the order received before orders that come in
after we reopen.
You
can email or fax your orders any hour any day of the
year. The fax machine is in a secure location. Some
people find it works quickest to email the order and call
in the charge card info. It works best for us if the
majority of the order is emailed as it saves us both
time. Your order is accurately received and is processed
quicker as we have a written list prepared by YOU. It's
hard to make a mistake from a written list.

