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eParts Exchange Appoints Director of Marketing

24 May 2000

eParts Exchange Appoints Director of Marketing

    DES PLAINES, Ill., May 24 eParts Exchange, Inc. (EPX), an
emerging B2B global online marketplace for automotive aftermarket parts that
will service the $400 billion global automotive aftermarket, announced today
that it has named Thomas Scanio as Director of Marketing.
    Mr. Scanio has nineteen years of purchasing experience, with over twelve
years experience in the automotive aftermarket.  He most recently was the
Director of Purchasing at G.M.G. Partners/Tri-State Automotive, one of the
largest warehouse distributors in Chicago.  While at G.M.G. Partners/Tri-State
Automotive, Mr. Scanio helped the company double the size of their business.
At the same time, he played a significant role in improving efficiency and
operating systems within the organization.
    Mr. Scanio brings his considerable automotive aftermarket skills and
experience to eParts Exchange (EPX) and will be a key player in establishing
EPX as the Internet marketplace for the automotive parts business.  "Tom has
the ideal skill set to integrate traditional automotive aftermarket business
with the new tools and opportunities of the Internet," said EPX's Senior Vice
President Don McEntee.  "He will be responsible for the content in our
eCommerce Marketplace."

    About eParts Exchange ( http://www.goepx.com )
    eParts Exchange, Inc., a subsidiary of Universal Automotive Industries,
Inc., is a B2B e-Commerce company that provides an online marketplace for
worldwide buyers and sellers of automotive aftermarket parts.  The company's
focus is on Commodity items, High Volume parts categories and Surplus
inventories.  eParts Exchange was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Des
Plaines, IL.

    About Universal Automotive Industries ( http://www.uaiinc.com )
    Universal Automotive Industries, Inc. is headquartered in
Alsip, Illinois and specializes in the distribution and manufacture of brake
parts under its trade names "UBP - Universal Brake Parts" and "Ultimate Rotors
and Friction".

    This news release contains certain forward-looking statements within the
meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section
21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, which are intended to
be covered by safe harbors created hereby. Such forward-looking statements
involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties (including those risk factors
referenced in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission), and other factors that may cause the actual results, performance
or achievements of the Company to be materially different from any future
results, performance, or achievements of the Company expressed or implied by
such forward-looking statements.