Passen Motorsports sold?

[12SecT@lon]

Well I was talking to some friend's that work at that new car audio shop off of huntly rd in westerville. It seem's that someone bought out Passen Motorsports. I am not sure who it was but heard rumor's that a guy that worked at mobile electronics got it.... anyone else hear that???




Dan

[BlackEclipse]

I thought I heard something like that happen maybe a year ago??? It may be really old news.

[Iwishiwascool]

drew93 and his dude know more about this.

[Caine]

Not to offened anyone who likes Passen but I hope those little Ricing assholes get shut down. Way to many bad things between me and them.

[talon guy]

i was talking to roger a while back and he said that it was being sold for something liek 300,000$ or something like that..i dont remember the price but i remember him saying that i think someone was interested in buying it or something

[12SecT@lon]

A long time ago it used to be called Auto Exotica, then Tony sold it to Sean Passen. Tony then started up Moble Electronics I think..



Dont know who bought it. Also Tony Croson (my brother in-law) before he started ForceFed Industries, made an offer to Sean to buy him out and it was A LOT more than 300k :p


Dan

[DvS_DSM]

OT I know, but whatever happend to FFI? They were just down the street from me it was nice, but this was like 2 years ago.

[04_srt_4]

OT I know, but whatever happend to FFI? They were just down the street from me it was nice, but this was like 2 years ago.

I repect you dan weaver, and therfore I am not going into great detail but I am still furious about my dealing at FFI and I would like to know where my FPR went to, oh well they are no more and I will leave it at that. Passen has always been to pricey IMO, but never had any issues when buying items from them.

[drew93tsi]

yes, lee cohen of mobile electronics bought passen about 1 month or so ago. most of the same techs will be their but some new ppl have come in. he will be changing the name here soon. he wants to attract new ppl and ppl who wont go to passen. i was either suppost to go work for lee or go to the shop i went too...

[ucsigep]

So, Drew, you gonna hook us up with a phat ColumbusDSM discount? :)

[drew93tsi]

as i have stated before...i will be more than happy to bend what rules i can and fix you guys up. we are having a car show again this month sometime and the awd dyno will be here too. you guys should stop out and check us out. we were had killer sales at the last show. all subs were buy one get one free. even with the mb quarts and the rockford p2's. if you need anything, compustars...whatever you need lemme know...

[OWNDJOO]

ANOTHER AWD DYNO???!!!! that would be AWESOME!!!

[drew93tsi]

i will post again as the show gets a biy closer.

[Hua]

A long time ago it used to be called Auto Exotica, then Tony sold it to Sean Passen. Tony then started up Moble Electronics I think..



Dont know who bought it. Also Tony Croson (my brother in-law) before he started ForceFed Industries, made an offer to Sean to buy him out and it was A LOT more than 300k :p


Dan

Um...Tom owns Mobile Electronics. Tony Barker used to own Auto Exotica, but sold the old location to Passen. Passen then moved over to their current location now on Bethel Rd, just across from the old Auto Exotica location. The original service location for Passen Motorsports has been there for over 10 years now. Mobile Electronics was started by Tom over 10 years ago as well. It was once located behind Totina's Pizza off Morse Rd, right next to Evan's Automotive. Hard to believe ME started out by Tom doing installs at dealerships out of his car, and what it is today.

[drew93tsi]

lee made it what it is. he went to every dealership in columbus and fished big business for tom. tom is dedicated dude though he used to do the installs at 3am if the customer asked him to. lee made mobile and then mobile no longer needed lee...he wanted to own his own business anyway. he likes being at passen a lot...

[BlackEclipse]

my somewhat limited knowledge of Tony Croson:

He was employed as a mechanic at Dennis Mitsubishi. He left there to go work for Passen. I think he bought the video store while working at Passen. Then he eventually quit Passen (after maybe a year?) and sometime later started the FFI business with his friend "Hilljack" who was still working at Dennis. Then Tony sold the video store to concentrate fully on his FFI business.

[92tsiawd]

Does anyone even use Passen for anything, they seemed to lack knowledge of DSM's when I went there? I think I knew more than the guy and thats not saying alot! Seemed like alot of Honda parts and VW.

Maybe we should open a DSM shop in Columbus :thumb Seems like they are always broke, good steady flow of business :thumb

[drew93tsi]

passen has mike weigand (wagon) he is very veru knowledgeable on dsm's. thats all he has ever built...and jj also is more than knowledgeable of the dsm too. you might not have talked to the right guys.

[drew93tsi]

my somewhat limited knowledge of Tony Croson:

He was employed as a mechanic at Dennis Mitsubishi. He left there to go work for Passen. I think he bought the video store while working at Passen. Then he eventually quit Passen (after maybe a year?) and sometime later started the FFI business with his friend "Hilljack" who was still working at Dennis. Then Tony sold the video store to concentrate fully on his FFI business.


they were refering to tony barker ex owner of atuo exotica, not ffi tony...

[Mike C]

Is Tony Barker a black guy that used to drive a 3rd gen RX7?

[drew93tsi]

the one and the same...sold tghe car to matt blackcloud last year...he works at columbus car audio. barker is a cool dude...so was his car. sold for 15k with 36k original on it.

[92tsiawd]

passen has mike weigand (wagon) he is very veru knowledgeable on dsm's. thats all he has ever built...and jj also is more than knowledgeable of the dsm too. you might not have talked to the right guys.

Must have talked to the wrong people! :thumb

[EvolvedDSM]

Is Tony Barker a black guy that used to drive a 3rd gen RX7?

Yes.

[jaydogg25]

lee bought passen and my brother is working there now...

and yes about tony