[asphaltgambler]

I have been interviewing with several local shops as lead tech. Many of you may have remembered my posting about my former business partner (auto shop) cheating me out of the business profits.
I have since moved on. One of the shops that I had a face-to-face was Autothority.

The shop is but a shadow of it's former self that I knew in the 80's. My wheelhouses are BMW/ Audi/VW then Porsche and that's the experience they were looking for. As the manager showed me around he pointed to a BMW M-5 (E34) that they had turbo-charged and promptly blew up. So now they were in the process of rebuilding. As a side note BMW engines are pretty stout so you really have to be an idiot tuner when leaning on one

The shop only had 4 cars inside and 1 beat 944 (no tags) in the lot

He offered me the position and asked what hourly rate I needed. I replied $36/flat rate hour. He then strolls over to this display and retrieved this flyer where they won second place in a magazine horsepower shoot-out. He says that the tech that this car was paid "only" $30/frh.

I say that the article was 8yrs old. He says the same tech did the Turbo installation on the E34. I said you mean the one that blew up? I asked him what the customer rate was he replied $110
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I said thanks. ................

but no thanks