Article: TAM AUTO REBUILD FIRM SOLD.(Business)

A Tacoma company that rebuilds car engines has been sold by the auto-dealership-owning families that owned it.

Tam Engineering Inc., which has 230 employees and chalked up $27 million in sales in 1995, has been sold by the Titus and Will families, which own Ford and Toyota dealerships along Interstate 5 in Tacoma.

The buyer is privately held Autocraft Industries Inc. of Oklahoma City. Terms weren't disclosed.

Autocraft also acquired Auto Parts Warehouse, a Seattle-based distributor owned by Tam, said Mike Brustkern, chief executive of Exvere Inc., a mergers and acquisition firm in Seattle.

Tam takes engines, usually from trade-ins, ...

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