[WestCoastSVX]

Ed - In thinking it over and reading all this, my advice would be to seriously look into contacting Tom and seeing if you guys could work something out where you buy him at ticket out to SF and have him do the job and get it done right.

I probably wouldn't have considered that as a cost effective option, except that you have already considered having your car shipped from SF to Tacoma which I'm sure costs more than his round trip airfare would? Not to mention the final cost for the job would most certainly be less than SmallCar and again, it would be done right!