LEFT: The front of LPE could be any small business. No signs announce LPE.

BELOW LEFT: The machine shop was the first room we saw. They do engine jobs in house.

   With Lingenfelter’s business world being so separate from the rest of Decatur, there’s no need to advertise. The place was still easy to find. Where else do you see big transporters with Corvettes and Camaros spilling out of them? We noticed a yellow Saleen Mustang in the lot and almost got the wrong impression. "We don’t do Fords," we were later informed. "That car was just on the transporter and they had to move it off to clear out the Corvettes."
   An old brick two-story house with a cellar door stood at the front of Lingenfelter’s shops. "Does John live there?" we asked. Turns out he used to live there but he rents it out