Finally my dream is coming alive! I have taken on the unit next door to my original unit and opened a performance parts shop. I am also getting ramps installed in our original unit so that we can fit the parts that we sell. So, if you are anywhere near Strathaven, Lanarkshire, Scotland pop in and visit us. You might even get a complimentary coffee (when the vending machine finally gets here!).

Just as I set up the mail order business differently to everyone else (I don't do 'traditional' advertising in magazines) I am going about the shop differently and am just going to see if it works. What we have is various areas devoted to different things such as exhausts, suspension or brakes as you can see in the pictures. But what is a bit different is that we have the full range of brochures with parts listings laid out for you to browse at your leisure. We keep stock of some of the faster moving items but the majority of things we will get in to order for you or have sent to an address of your choice. And because the shop is being set up on the back of the mail order business, we already have a fully efficient system in place with more big brand names than any other shop that I know of.

Basically, I am aiming to develop this arm of the business into the kind of haven that, as a car nut, I would always have liked to have visited. So, as a fellow car enthusiast, I hope you will like it too!

My staff - Alexa, Simon and Neil - and I look forward to seeing you in the near future. Cheers, Colin.

Early days...	The door gets knocked through between the two units.	My son, Fraser, surveys his future 'empire'.