Speaker 11/14 Greig Latham – Owner and founder of Vehicle Reman
 

  A beloved but beat-up Chevy Suburban was part of the inspiration for Vehicle Reman - a new business in Tyler that rebuilds fleet vehicles - and could bring as many as 100 jobs to the area while boosting the region’s manufacturing sector. That 1994 Suburban had hauled Greig Latham's family to soccer games and to Scout events, to school and to work. He loved it, but it was falling apart. “It was just a constant headache,” said Latham, one of the founders of Vehicle Reman in Tyler. “It was just one repair after another. But every time I was faced with the prospect of replacing it, I just didn’t want to do it.” So he approached the project as a unified whole. He would rebuild his Suburban from the ground up. “It took a couple of months,” he said. “I took the motor to the shop and had it rebuilt. I had the transmission rebuilt. I replaced all the rubber, from the belts to the bushings. And the end result was fabulous.” At the start of the process, his Suburban had more than 300,000 miles on it. Another 50,000 have been added since then. “We gave it a new life,” Latham said. “And really, that’s where the idea for Vehicle Reman came from. We realized there’s a market - a huge market - for light- and medium-duty cars and trucks that feel like new, but cost half the price.”

 

Story from the Tyler Morning Telegraph http://www.tylerpaper.com/TP-Business/252892/vehicle-reman-rebuilds-refurbishes-fleet-vehicles-and-make-them-new-again