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Getty Petroleum Marketing and Precision Auto Care Announce Alliance

24 April 2000

Getty Petroleum Marketing Inc. and Precision Auto Care, Inc. Announce A Strategic Alliance

    LEESBURG, Va., April 24 Getty Petroleum Marketing Inc.
(NYSE: GPM) and Precision Auto Care, Inc. (Nasdaq: PACI) today announced the
formation of a strategic alliance to test Precision Auto Care's franchise
systems at Getty service stations in New England. There are 18 potential sites
in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Maine designated for the
initial test.
    Under the Agreement, certain Getty dealers will be offered a Precision
Auto Care franchise. Precision Auto Care presently markets three distinct car
care service offerings: Precision Tune Auto Care(R), Precision Lube Express(R)
and Precision Auto Wash centers(R).
    Vincent J. DeLaurentis, President and Chief Operating Officer of Getty
Petroleum Marketing Inc., said that "this alliance creates an enormous
opportunity for our service station dealer network with service bays to gain
the state-of-the-art marketing and training expertise from the Precision Auto
Care experts."
    Charles L. Dunlap, Chief Executive Officer and President of Precision Auto
Care, Inc., indicated that "the landscape of the auto service world requires
more specialization and sophistication. Our multiple franchise system brings
this to the marketplace. By joining with Getty, we will be able to build off
of a proven brand. Both of us will benefit from the other's expertise."

    Getty Petroleum Marketing Inc., one of the nation's largest independent
marketers of gasoline and petroleum products, supplies approximately 1,300
branded locations in thirteen Northeastern and Middle-Atlantic states. The
Company is also a marketer of heating oil in the New York Mid-Hudson Valley
and is a wholesale distributor of a variety of petroleum products through its
east coast petroleum storage and distribution network.

    Precision Auto Care, Inc., is the world's largest franchisor of auto care
centers, with 596 operating centers as of April 24, 2000. The Company
franchises and operates Precision Tune Auto Care, Precision Auto Wash, and
Precision Lube Express centers around the world, and offers a vertically
integrated organization with manufacturing and distribution subsidiaries.
    Cautionary Statement: The statements in this press release constitute
"forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the
Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause
Precision Auto Care Inc.'s actual results, performance or achievements to
differ materially from any future results, performance or achievements
expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. For example, there
can be no assurance that the Company will be able to modify the terms of its
outstanding debt, obtain additional capital, or complete any divestiture,
partnership or other restructuring transactions in a timely fashion or on
terms and conditions that are acceptable to the Company. Other risks and
uncertainties include, but are not limited to, (i) the risks and uncertainties
reflected and set forth in the text of this press release, (ii) the fact that
Precision Auto Care Inc. and the companies it acquired on and subsequent to
the date of its initial public offering have only recently conducted
operations as a combined company, (iii) the seasonal nature of portions of the
business, (iv) the highly competitive markets in which Precision Auto Care
Inc. operates, (v) difficulties in integrating all of the businesses Precision
Auto Care Inc., has acquired, (vi) risks associated with Precision Auto Care
Inc.'s ability to continue its strategy of growth through acquisitions and
(vii) risks associated with Company's ability to make or effect acquisitions
in the future and to successfully integrate newly-acquired businesses into
existing operations and the risks associated with such newly-acquired
businesses. For a discussion of such other risks and uncertainties which could
cause actual results, performance or achievements to differ from those
contained in the forward-looking statements, see "Risk Factors" in the
Company's most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10-K.