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U.S. Automotive Manufacturing, Inc. Announces Reverse Stock Split

10 February 1999

U.S. Automotive Manufacturing, Inc. Announces a 1 for 15 Reverse Stock Split, Effective February 12, 1999

    NEW YORK, Feb. 9 -- U.S. Automotive Manufacturing, Inc.
announced that the Company's stockholders, at a special meeting
of the stockholders held February 5, 1999, voted in favor of a 1 for 15
reverse split of the Company's issued and outstanding common stock.  The
Company anticipates filing the necessary documentation to effect the reverse
split in the State of Delaware on Thursday, February 11, 1999, with an ex-date
for the common stock to be reflected on The Nasdaq SmallCap Market at the
opening of business on Friday, February 12, 1999.
    Following the effective date, the Company's stockholders shall be entitled
to receive new stock certificates evidencing their respective stock holdings
after the reverse split.  Each such stockholder shall receive by mail a
separate letter of transmittal from the Company's transfer agent instructing
as to the manner by which old stock certificates may be exchanged for new
stock certificates.
    No fractional shares of common stock will be issued and, to the extent
that any stockholder holds a number of shares of the Company's common stock
not divisible by 15, such stockholder shall receive a cash payment in lieu of
any fractional shares.
    U.S. Automotive Manufacturing, Inc. through its wholly owned subsidiaries,
Quality Automotive Company and U.S. Automotive Friction, Inc., manufactures,
assembles and distributes new and rebuilt automotive friction products (brake
pads, linings and remanufactured brake shoes) to other automotive
manufacturers and to the automotive after-market.