Driving Us Nuts

Posted on May 10, 2015 by Mustang Maniac

This week as we had a random call with a customer who wanted some wheel nuts. Nothing odd there you might think, but this is a mine field when look into it, and to cut a potentially long blog post short, we didn’t send any out to the customer as he didn’t know what he wanted. Needless to say the comments were not flattering and we were deemed as awkward. In actual fact it was the exact opposite, let me explain. We could have sent a set of standard nuts out, charged him and thought no more of it, but we will not have it on our conscience that he had fitted the wrong ones fitted to his wheels or studs then had an accident, or damaged his wheels. Yes, you did read that right – accident. Think about this for a moment, in each corner of a car there is a wheel, that wheel is held on by 4 or 5 nuts or bolts, that’s it. If they come off then no wheel and you have an accident, or damage to the wheel which could crack it, fatigue it, uneven wear and tear all sorts of issues. In fact would you believe that most of the restorations we see imported to us, from various places around the world with after market wheels, they have the wrong nuts fitted for that wheel! Yes, everybody knows there are steel wheels, alloy wheels, mag wheels, carbon wheels, one nut does not fit all.

So here is an attempt at trying to explain basics without getting into too much technical detail, this will apply to new cars as well as Classic Mustangs.

There are 3 basic type fastener seats;

Conical Seat – cone shape
Spherical Seat – round or ball shape
Flat Washer – commonly known as Mag Type

Different seats for different nuts or fasteners, the angles of the seat must match the wheel in order to centre it correctly.

There are several different thread sizes used today by vehicle manufacturers;

12mm X 1.25
12mm X 1.5
12mm X 1.75
14mm X 1.5
14mm X 2.0
7/16″ X 20
1/2″ X 20
9/16″ X 18

When I mentioned about accidents here is an exaggerated view of what could happen. The wheels could get damaged as a result with movement, under acceleration or braking loads the holes on the wheel may elongate causing some serious issues should we say.

Two other things to remember;

1) do not put oil or lubricant on the threads of either the stud or lugs nuts/bolts

2) re-torque the lug nuts/bolts after 25-50 miles.

Proper Thread Engagement

This is critically important. Make sure you have a minimum thread engagement of the diameter of the vehicle stud (as recommended by SAE – Society of Automotive Engineers). An example is, if the stud size of your vehicle is “½” then you will need a minimum of “½” of threads into the lug nut. If for some reason you do not have this minimum then it is recommended that you use an Extended Thread Type nut (see illustration above).

Proper Torque (tightening)

This is also very important. Over tightening lug nuts/bolts can fatigue the vehicle studs or lug bolts. Use the SAE recommended torque listed below as a guideline for passenger cars and light trucks;
12mm, 7/16″, 1/2″ = 85 ft/lbs (+/- 5 ft/lbs)
14mm, 9/16″ = 115 ft/lbs (+/- 5 ft/lbs)

Mustang Specific Now:

We have a little table below that should help with the basics as fitted from stock.

At Mustang Maniac we stock a large range of wheels, stock, after market and specialist even racing, we stock an even larger range of wheel nuts, hopefully we will have everything you need for your wheels. The various guides above only scratch the surface, an example is that some washer based nuts also have the correct way round to fit them too, then there are the offset washers to enable various fittings that could be a generic fit wheel or custom wheels or where space is tight to the centre hub. Here we have a selection of our range of our chrome nuts where we try to show the differences side by side.

There are open-ended nuts, closed nuts, short nuts, long nuts, chrome nuts, steel nuts, alloy nuts, black nuts, left hand thread nuts, right hand thread nuts, long shank, short shank etc. ALL of which make a crucial difference to your wheels.

So as you can see when we ask what sort of wheel nuts you want – it’s a sensible question not us being awkward at all, we are looking out for you. Simple reason is that we do have a conscience and won’t just sell you anything, but we can’t validate what you order from our WebShop of course. So please make sure you have the correct fasteners for your wheels.

We will plan to copy this post as an article shortly too ready for easy access. Was this any use to you out there, please let us know.

Customer Cars:

Acapulco Coupe has taken some leaps forward again this week. Yogi has finished fitting up the custom exhaust and made a good job of the step down from the headers to the pipes. The only thing to be careful of here is the lowest point of the car is the flange fittings for the exhaust now.

The rest of the exhaust has now been aligned up correctly and fastened up. We are going to wait and see how she sounds and performs if we need to add a cross flow pipe.

We have also used something called copper-nickel for the transmission lines and fuel lines. Although they look copper now they will tone down and look more like steel as they age nicely. We use our own custom-made and design brass fittings to the bottom of the radiator.

She even has a new set of boots we have just fitted and balanced.

We even got to the point where we have filled her up with fluids to check for any static leaks before we fire her up.

Posted in Articles, Customers' Cars, Sales, Service | Tagged Acapulco coupe, chrome, classic, Conical seat, flat washer, Lug Nuts, Magnum 500, Mustang, Mustang Maniac, nuts, SAE, speherical seat, torque | Leave a comment

Waiting Around

Posted on May 3, 2015 by Mustang Maniac

This week has been a frustrating week with not being able to concentrate on any one thing for a period of time. For those that don’t know Adam also runs a recovery company, and sometimes to help out Adam has been on the road doing some recovery when needs must. Most of the time our Mustangs are picked up and delivered back to customers in our covered lorries or recovered on the flat backs if that is what’s required. We have provided this extra service for a long time now and works well, it can save miles on the cars, pick up dead cars or transport them for safety reasons. This week our own Mustang Maniac truck was called to a mission of mercy to recover a car that had got stuck following a SatNav. Although we like our SatNavs, if you follow them to the letter they can lead you to some random places and this was no exception.

All hands to the pumps can obviously have benefits and down sides, the up side is we can help those that need our services, the downside is that we are not always in the office to take technical phone calls. So in that respect we apologise if you have tried to get us without success, but sometimes we take our overalls off and put on our suits of shining armour on to save the day.

We will go a little more off piste now as it were, but a similar incident where the sister company LAR were called out to a second Sat Nav failure this week. This time it was a sewage lorry that got stuck in some “mud” should we say, the lorry tried to turn around but got bogged down so we had to pull it out, not a nice job but somebody had to do it. We also had one of our newer recovery vehicles at Trucks Fest this weekend, if you are there pop by and say hello.

Anyway, back to Mustangs now; we often have cars in that require finishing off due to difficulty of the task, problems or time constraints which we fully understand of course. The owner of this stripped down shell had been working on her for a while now and wanted it to be painted by us. The car has been previously prepped and primed which now sits waiting for the next stage in the paint process. We did have to replace a front panel and she should be ready to go to the paint shop as soon as there is a free slot.

A newish 289 engine needed some serious diagnostics as it was making all sorts of noises and rattles. The whole car was transported here for us to investigate. This was a pretty simple one diagnose – no oil pressure, when we say no oil pressure – there was none, it didn’t even register, so we quickly shut her down. We took the engine out and removed the sump of and could see there was the optional race oil guard fitted which was nothing to do with the issue we have now. We investigated the crank and the more delicate parts for damage where we could see that it had all worn away and was now small block scrap unit. We are not sure the full reasons why yet, but our first suspect could be a faulty oil filter, it’s rare but it can happen.

We strongly recommend to pay the extra few pounds to get a good quality oil filter, you may save a small amount short-term, but cost an awful more lot long-term!

Acapulco ’66 Coupe

The work on the mechanics has moved inside , Quite s specialised job of fitting a head liner in place. This has been fitted now and the fold marks will soon fall out when the head liner bows pull it a little tighter over time. Now you are getting a little taster of the inside colour scheme.

front

back

At Mustang Maniac we have parts to hand most of the time which are just collected from stock and noted on the system for invoice. Some of those parts can be stored in other areas that are locked away and can take a few minutes to locate. To try and work efficiently we aim to have the parts we need for the next day sourced from stock the evening before, that way we can just get on with the work when we get to the workshops in the morning. When we said to hang on a minute while we get the parts, we didn’t think we took that long at the end of a very busy day ! 🙂

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Twins

Posted on April 26, 2015 by Mustang Maniac

Walking past our storage garage where a coupe of cars that are waiting to be collected by their owners, we noticed that couple of them looked amazing in the afternoon sun. Same colour, but two very different schools of thought.

Given the choice which one these twins would you go for, the all time classic fastback or the lesser seen coupe?

Rust in Piece

We are pleased to say that the Rust in Piece is now finished and awaiting her owners collection. The car went for her first MOT in the UK and passed with flying colours. The car drives beautifully now and is a glorious sunshine cruiser, no outrageous exhaust note, just plenty of power from a single exhaust pipe that is whisper quiet. The owner is going to love driving this little lady around, a real pleasure to see her completed and another rare old Mustang is back on the road.

Acapulco ’66 Coupe

We are turning our attention to the full restoration ’66 Coupe again this coming week, we have had a couple of dry run of fittings of the exhaust to her during the past week. We are having to custom build this exhaust to fit the big 3″ headers that it already has. The bore of the pipe we are using is the recommended big maximum of 2 1/4″ pipes into Twin Flowmaster 40 Series Delta Flow muffler boxes.

The fittings are bare metal and so needed to be prepared so we got round to doing that while we waited for the pipes to come back. You did read that correctly, exhaust bending is not something we do for a large-bore exhaust pipes, but we do tend to cut and weld our own custom systems to fit. For this exhaust system Adam got hold of his mate, “Mike the Pipe” who has various machines that he uses to bend and shape various sizes of pipe work for their customers top quality, one-off exhaust systems.

The pipes were marked up on the car in marker pen from a template to note the centre of the bend and by how much was need. An art form in itself to make the big bore pipes bend without kinks and still make them look good. We got them back and as you can see the amount of work required for a single section of the pipe, they are a work of art in their own rights.

The pipes were pretty much spot on only need a few minor pulls on a pipe section to line them up so far. We are looking to make our own step down fittings to these newly made pipes.

The owner turned up on Saturday and was around more than happy to his hands dirty and help with final dry fitting. Yogi was on hand to show him how to cut the pipes and expand the turned down tips to fit the big pipes. We even got him cleaning and spraying clamps for his home-made exhaust.

Yogi trimming.

pipe expander

We also aim to have the head liner in this week along with the transmission pipe work to the radiator.

Souvenirs:

After the holiday things have settled back down again and we made time to put up Twin souvenirs from our epic road trip across America.

When it rains we look at the flags and think of the hot sunny days again.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged '66 Coupe, Acapulco, automatic transmission, convertible, custom exhaust, Flowmaster, Mustang, Mustang Maniac, Rust in Piece, souvenirs | Leave a comment

By The Pallets

Posted on April 19, 2015 by Mustang Maniac

The sun is making a difference and nice to be able to work on some cars in the open air rather than in a work shop, not everything can be done outside of course, just the more routine stuff. We had a little delivery of some parts during the week, not the usual stuff that is bubble wrapped, these parts came in on pallets. Part of a stash that we came to hear about and was offered to us if wanted it, so we thought about it and took the lot! These engines vary from some i6’s, 289’s up to some serious big block stuff too along with a couple of others we haven’t fully investigated yet. The blocks all look good and could well be used for parts or complete rebuilds for projects.

We will now strip down some of the rarer engines we know about and store those in a proper containers with their relevant parts. An ideal job to do in the sunshine.

Rust in Piece is coming along nicely and we are working on the interior and tidying up under the dash. It shouldn’t be to long before we Geo the suspension and take her for a road test.

Customer Cars

Duct tape Mustang has been fixed and was collect yesterday by the happy owner who can now go back to cruising Europe. The brake issue was indeed the servo, when we test that out on a road test it highlighted an issue with the master cylinder that had to be changed too unfortunately. Like all these things, a new part will show up the weakness in another. While we were at it Yogi done his bit with the brake lines and re-plumbed it back up how it should be in order to adjust the brakes correctly via the front rear balance valve.

The WebShop is going from strength to strength which we are pleased about obviously, so far the feedback has been nothing short of excellent for the in stock parts and dispatch process. We have had a little run on the Classic Tax discs this week for some reason, perhaps the hot weather has got a few cars out of the garage onto the road. We have even sent a couple more tax discs to the USA too.

Posted in Customers' Cars, Parts, Webshop | Tagged duct tape, engines, Mustang, Mustang Maniac, pallets, Rust in Piece, WebShop | 1 Comment

Basic Mechanics

Posted on April 12, 2015 by Mustang Maniac

Mustang Maniac is back to normal, well as normal as it can be, as I’m back from my Route 66 journey across the USA, and I’m still a bit jet lagged. It got to Saturday and we thought it would be a quiet day, but nope, it was one of the busiest days of the week for customers. At one point it was standing room only in the office which was a lot of fun. We had Martin who picked up his Bullitt green fastback after her yearly MOT, general service and lube service. We also had a another regular customer turn up with his ’67 Convertible that he has been using to cruise around Europe. To be honest we couldn’t think of a better way to do it either. While they were away recently the brake pedal was fine then there would be no servo with brake pedal travel. This ended up making the braking a bit interesting sometimes, the car would stop, but you need to be aware there could be no assistance from the servo. Another thing was that the driver side sill trim started to come away, then the demist pipe came away from the fitting under the dash for the windscreen. As a temporary measure, Duct Tape was used to fix the trim in place and hold the pipe to the underside of the dash. Derek didn’t mind us pulling his leg a bit by calling his car the Duct Tape Mustang. We have had the “Mastic Mustang”, “Rust in Piece” now we have “Duct Tape Mustang”. Joking aside what Derek had done was fine as a work around as it was not an important or safety related fix to the car. It will be simple to fix those parts though you can’t see the temporary repairs. They are still holding up fine.

As for the brakes Yogi started the initial investigation on Saturday and found that the servo was playing up. We are also looking at a potential issue around the plumbing of the brakes that we want to make sure is all OK too.

We would like to offer a piece of advice for everybody who may be looking to start their own mechanical repairs, prompted by Derek and his Duct Tape. Print this out and take it with you for a quick handy reference guide. 😀

Rust In Piece

The Convertible is coming along very nicely now as we have had the rocker covers and the air intake back from being sprayed their correct colours for the time. The rear seats are back in, the original centre console is back in as well as the carpet. It won’t be long before we geo set up the car and road test it for a while before we hand it back.

Question Time

Recently we had a car that was supposed to of have a rebuilt 289cid engine. The owner managed to get the car to us saying it rattles like mad and there is no power. We started it and shut it down straight away. The car sounded like somebody had put a handful of marbles in a tin can and was shaking it. We knew it was a strip down job to start with. We found out that the rebuild had not even cleaned the oil tubes to the top of the engine with no oil pressure, thus the hydraulic tappets cam followers severely worn as well as everything else that was in a bad way, now junk. We have here just one of the cam followers that should be flat and smooth at the top, they were all like this.

“Click Here” for the answer to see just how many miles this car has done on the rebuild.

Acapulco Coupe

The coupe has had a lot of work done to the gearbox and to get it ready to go back into the car. New seals, filter, sump pan and gaskets. Me and Mart cleaned up the flex plate and sprayed it, not that you will see it, but it’s all in the detail. We done a dry fitting without the engine plate to make sure all was OK before the final fitting.

We then removed flex plate, fitted the engine plate and refitted the flex plate and tightened it all up. We fitted in the torque converter into the bell housing and mounted the gearbox to the engine.

Tightening the bolts securely.

Gearbox mounted to the engine and the mounting brackets all in place.

The last part was to fit the prop shaft to the gearbox and the rear diff. And yes the Prop is white!

Posted in Customers' Cars, News, Our Cars, Photos, Repairs, Sales | Tagged Acapulco coupe, basic mechanics, C4 gearbox, cam followers, duct tape, Europe, gaskets, gibbs, jet lag, Mustang, Mustang Maniac, Route '66, Rust in Piece, torque converter | Leave a comment

Route 66 – Final Day

Posted on April 7, 2015 by Mustang Maniac

We’ve done it!

We arrived at sunny Los Angeles, California and found the end of Route 66 sign in Santa Monica and had the mandatory photos taken with it to show the end of our journey. A sense of sadness, huge sense of achievement and wonderful satisfaction of an ambition that had been completed all at the same time. Route 66 has been completed with our total mileage being around 3200 miles or so with about ten fuel stops during the course of the trip. However the official miles of the Mother Road is a total of 2451 miles. The reason for the extra miles is that my wonderful wife Lynn, wanted to stop off at each and every shopping mall that we came across, it’s nothing to do with the extra detours that I wanted to do of course, no way. Yes, I appreciated that we needed supplies along the way, but as for the other shopping stuff such as clothes and shoes, I’m not so sure about. The suitcases are full to bursting point and the credit card has had a good battering. But hey, it has all been worth it. Here we both are at the end of the (mother) road, literally.

We had a spot of lunch at Ruby’s Diner before we spent some time on the beach to relax and take it all in.

While in California the other thing that has to be done is see the Hollywood sign on Mt. Lee. In 1923 the Hollywood Sign is built as a huge, illuminated advertisement for the upscale real estate development, Hollywoodland. The Sign costs $21,000 and includes thirteen 50-foot high letters constructed of 3′ X 9′ panels and painted white. Using mule teams and tractors, the panels are hauled up Mt. Lee and secured to frames constructed of pipes, wires, and telephone poles. Four thousand 20-watt light bulbs are mounted on the letters and spaced 8″ apart. In late 1923 the Sign is turned on and the result is dazzling. The developers expect the Sign to last about a year. In 1949 the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce enters into a contract with the City of Los Angeles’ Department of Parks and Recreation to repair and rebuild the Sign and remove the “land” so that it would spell “Hollywood.” The cost is estimated at $4,000. The light bulbs are long gone and the City stipulates that any new illumination would be at the expense of the Chamber. The Chamber gives the Sign a complete makeover. Over the next 30 years the Sign would require constant repairs, and sometimes the celebrities would help. In 1978 after the Gloria Swanson makeover five years previously, termites have infested the wood and an “O” has tumbled down the mountain. Arsonists set fire to the bottom of an “L.” The City decides the Sign would have to be completely rebuilt at a cost of $250,000, ten times the cost of the original. Hugh Hefner steps in and throws a lavish fundraiser at the Playboy Mansion to raise funds for the rebuilding costs. To raise the additional funds needed to restore the Sign, celebrities and community leaders sponsor individual letters at $27,500 a piece. Alice Cooper sponsored an “O” in honour of Groucho Marx. Other letters are sponsored by Andy Williams and Gene Autry, among others. In August 1978 the old Sign is demolished and for the first time in more than 50 years, “Angelenos” are without the Sign for three months. Workers pour 194 tons of concrete to anchor the Sign, and helicopters drop a massive new steel frame in place. Placing on the corrugated baked enamel letters was the final step. In November 1978 the new Sign, four stories high, 450-feet long and weighing 480,000 lbs., is unveiled on Hollywood’s 75th Anniversary celebration in November 1978 live to a television audience of 60 million. Each letter is 45 ft tall and between 31 and 39 ft wide, the sign sits just over 1,500 feet up the side of Mt. Lee.

On our way looking for a good vantage point to see the Hollywood sign we found a Ford Galaxy tucked away.

That’s it, our monumental journey is over and we are soon to be travelling back to the UK. The memories will stay with us forever of all the fantastic places we have visited and seen, not forgetting all the wonderful people we have met along the way. We have had an amazing time yet again here in the wonderful USA, we can be very proud to say that we have genuinely travelled across America and seen some of the worlds most iconic sites. It only leaves me to say a couple of things to all the people who have followed our journey on Route 66 and left us kind messages.

Thank You & God Bless America.

Cheers!

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Route 66 – part 15

Posted on April 6, 2015 by Mustang Maniac

We have left the bright lights of Las Vegas and heading for the last part of our journey to Los Angeles in California. The journey was a long painfully slow drive due to the Easter holiday traffic so we have been told. During the trip, we decided to stop of for something to eat at the legendary Peggy Sue’s. Peggy Sue’s is an original roadside Diner, built in 1954 with 9 counter stools and 3 booths. It is set in the shadow of the Calico Mountains and was built from railroad ties and mortar from the nearby Union Pacific Rail yard. Peggy has used her grandmothers recipes for the authentic 50’s food. The have even built their own Diner-saur park with sculptures of dinosaurs, water falls, fountains grass and trees to have a wonder through. The inside is dedicated to all sorts of movie and music memorabilia and is an essential stop of point, if only for the atmosphere.

The rail yard with some important looking freight.

We needed some fuel after our lunch, maybe this was going to be our last stop and we were filling up on average about $30 a time. Not bad at all considering how we get robbed by the UK government at up to 60% tax per litre. Sorry had to get that little dig in their considering the UK pays the highest tax amounts on fuel in the World.

We eventually arrived at Anaheim and caught a very nice sunset on the way in.

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Take A Seat

Posted on April 5, 2015 by Mustang Maniac

A double post today on the blog, one from Adam and his journey along the famous Route 66 together with a bonus dose of Mustang Maniac cars too. 🙂

The week has been all about trying to finish of the smaller jobs on some cars we have had around for a little while. Not because we can’t do them of course but because there is no rush to complete them at the moment. We are expecting another couple of cars in next week after the Easter Break where we can get back to normal after loosing a couple of days. The break has been very welcome after all the hard work the guys have been putting in recently. Poor Yogette has been swamped out with WebShop orders and has been trying to answer the phone and get the orders ready. Again thanks to everybody who have called in and been patient with us. Looks Like the Easter Bunny has come early for some lucky customers out there.

Rust In Piece

The car is coming along very well now and the engine with all the wiring is in the process of being added back into the car. A couple of small problems we sometimes encounter at this point, but nothing we haven’t seen before and was quickly sorted out without a fuss. The dynamo now in place and the loom pig-tail wired up.

Alfa Red Convertible

Its been a little while since we have posted about this car, but we are now starting on the interior. We have ordered some parts for it to come into us so they should be here very soon. The interior has changed colour a little since it was discussed and now the owner has opted for a custom-made set of black leather with a subtle red stitching. The effect is just amazing and a good choice to go with the colour of the car.

We have here a picture of both the front seats sitting on the floor waiting for the carpet to be fitted.

The seat base and the backs look different colours in the pics next to the car depending on lighting and reflections obviously. These seats are a real luxury item and the soft leather feels, looks and smells amazing. An awesome upgrade.

Just to prove they are the same colour we have a close up of the seat base and the back together with no paint reflection.

The seat base

seat base

The seat back

seat back

Happy Easter to you all from Mustang Maniac.

Posted in Blog, News, Travel, Webshop | Tagged Alfa Romeo red, carpet, Easter, interior, Mustang, Mustang Maniac, Route '66, WebShop | Leave a comment

Route 66 – part 14

Posted on April 5, 2015 by Mustang Maniac

Today is a lazy day with some shopping around Las Vegas and not much to do with cars or Mustangs. During the evening we had taken some pictures of the classic Las Vegas at dusk instead of the usual darkness shots you see on post cards. We thought it would be nice to sample some more local culture rather than the bright lights for a little change. So only a short post today as California is next on our location list and I am sure we will have some photos for you from there.

We got close to the huge High Roller Wheel which is the largest observation wheel in the world at over 550ft tall!

But just for the sake of it we had a little play with some special effects for the wheel. Any particular favourite?

Packing soon ready for the last leg of this amazing journey so far.

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Scott Drake Visit

Posted on April 4, 2015 by Mustang Maniac

During our tour of the USA via Route 66 we stopped just outside Las Vegas at a place called Henderson, the home town of Scott Drake. People who order parts from us obviously know that we stock their parts, but this time we went to meet them. Their corporate facility spans more than two-acres that includes engineering, manufacturing, sales and warehouse space that ships over 10,000 products each day to their suppliers around the world, including us. The company has been trading now for over three decades and started with only a single product for the classic Ford Mustang.

The entrance has a showroom to showcase just some of their parts.

We had a look around the facility and Scott Drake himself posed for a couple of pictures with me in front of their very own Research & Development 2015 5.0 GT Mustang.

We had a spot of lunch and discussed business plans and where the importance of Scott Drake products fits into those plans. Later on Scott gave me the keys to their car so I could take it out for a spin where I thoroughly enjoyed myself, it’s difficult to give a car back that you enjoy so much. A superb experience.

Under the hood there is a fantastic little touch of the Ford Mustang Logo which unfortunately is covered up by insulation. How many people knew that was there?

I meet my Sales Manager Stephan who looks after our account back in the UK.

To end our visit in style, Mustang Maniac were presented with another Scott Drake Silver Award for 2014 to add to our growing collection. This award will be proudly displayed on our wall with the other awards presented to us by Scott Drake.

We would like to offer our special thanks to Scott, Stephan and all his staff for their valuable time and exceptional hospitality. A great day we are sure not to forget.