I didn't give enough info about the "chasing a ghost" line. The car started acting up as soon as Gary [the mechanic] took the car for an initial test drive. But then the car cleared up and ran fine, he said he ended up putting 18 miles on the car w/o it acting up again. His concern was with me being w/o a car while they ran through the process of trying to figure out the problem, but I told him to keep the car as long as they need to figure it out. I got a call from them today that they traced it to the fuel pump, and I should have the car back Thursday at the latest.
They had no problem w/ dealing with my aftermarket warrenty. I really like these guys...at one point they had a picture of my AMX being used as the screen saver on their computers, so how can ya not like that?