[John McMahon]

- Peter Bayer (who now owns Nisonger Auto.) sold Contemporary to Burtis.

- Burtis was an great engineer, but a lousy businessman.
(Mommy bought him the company.)

- Burtis listened to no one who tried to help him out. Didn't even want the mailing list from Bayer for the 700+ Contemporary owners!

- Burtis spent all his $$ building the Contemporary F8...which was his answer to the FFR roadster (1 exists) in a market already sewn up by FFR (stupid move). But he did get the suspension right!

- Burtis sold about 10 cars. (I own the last car to roll out the door). He went belly up after a fiasco involving perspective buyers of the business...no names puleeze!

As far as the value of a Contemporary....buy it. The only thing unique to a Contemporary, are the uprights in the suspension and the body. Everything else is available aftermarket. Don Borders and Boyd Coddington are now producing the body and frames for Contemporary cars.