Honestly, I owe it all to FABO...

Through lots of hard work, no doubt.

I've been blessed with business success in the past 15 years and am 100% hoping the same for WPON. It's still a lot of hard work but it sounds like it is moving in the right direction, and it is a great feeling when it goes right. Just be mentally ready for the ride to go up and down at times, and don't over-commit on borrowing. (The economy is improving but it will bust again someday...and hot rod spending is the 1st thing to go by the wayside.)
I'm already three steps ahead on that.
I never borrow money for business..or really anything else for that matter.
The nice thing about a shop, is that it's flexible. If the hot rod work crashes, I can always transition to general repair/fabrication.
Taking the place of my parts business, I'll be flipping cheap late models..I have great roadside exposure, and good times or bad, people need wheels.