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A final
note…Skip White Performance…About Us

I’m sure
many of you have noticed there are 2 high performance engine builders in
Kingsport, TN with similar names, leading to a great amount of confusion. 

We are
Skip White Performance, NOT White Performance and Machine.

Due to
the name similarity, many customers looking for us online inadvertently find
them, thinking we are the same company. Definitely not…there is no connection
between the two companies. We don’t have a problem with free enterprise
(competition). However, when the competition builds their foundation on such
things as a name similarity and their supposedly long history of being in
business, then we think it’s about time we set the record straight.

We have
owned White Performance since 2003, with the exception of the machine shop,
which was owned by Fred White at the time. He continued to operate the machine
shop and build engines for us while we continued selling online under the eBay
user ID of skipwhite and the eBay store name of whiteperformance1.

Due to
their limited production capability and many disagreements about the engine and
head building process as well as workmanship, we opted to open a full scale
machine shop of our own a few years later. Fred White began competing against
us even though our contract had a non-compete clause in it.

As our
business grew, we opened a second, much larger warehouse and machine shop
around 2011, located on Brookside Ln. in Kingsport TN. By putting heart and
soul in this company, we have become the number one street rod engine builder
in the nation. 

Fred sold
his shop to an investor in 2016 and the new owners continue to reap the
benefits from this confusion between the two shops. This investor lacked
any knowledge of this industry. They continue to use the White Performance
& Machine name. Contrary to what is posted on their website, Fred White is
no longer associated with the company in any way. Their main spiel in
advertising is, “In business since 1979,” when in fact, we purchased
the White Performance company in 2003, with the exception of the machine
shop. 

All in
all, we have been in this business going on 17+ years. Skip White’s passion has
been owning and building street rods for 47 years on a personal level. The
knowledge he has gained over time has allowed him to venture into this business
and succeed to a very high level. 

The great
pretenders continue capitalizing on our success due to the name similarity, but
have been degrading our reputation. We have been getting calls nearly on a
daily basis from people that now realize there are two shops in this town with
very similar names. Customers complain of serious problems in getting their
orders in a timely manner from them. They think they purchased their cylinder
heads from us. Due to the confusion, there is an increasing amount of negative
feedback that is affecting our name within the street rod community, when in
fact we have a near perfect reputation in this industry. We have an
“A+” rating with the Better Business Bureau and we have maintained
the A+ rating for many years. 

FAST
FORWARD TO PRESENT DAY…We have become the largest street rod engine builder
in the nation. Our engines, rotating assemblies, and cylinder heads are built
to very high standards and shipped to our customers in a timely manner. We are
a premier seller on eBay with a positive feedback score of well over 206,000
and growing, as compared to our competitor’s score of approximately 24,000.

Our
engines are custom-built to our customers’ specifications and are shipped in
approx. 2-5 weeks, perhaps sooner, depending on the season. Our rotating
assemblies usually ship out in about one week or less, and our heads ship in
about a week or less.