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Featherlite Announces Third Quarter Conference Call

27 October 2000

Featherlite Announces Third Quarter Conference Call

    CRESCO, Iowa, Oct. 27 Featherlite, Inc. , a
leading manufacturer and marketer of specialty aluminum trailers and luxury
motorcoaches, said today that it will hold a conference call to discuss third
quarter results on Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2000, at 3:30 p.m. CST.  A listen-only
broadcast of the conference call may be accessed by dialing 800-275-1505 a few
minutes prior to the scheduled start time to be connected to the Featherlite
conference call, hosted by CEO Conrad Clement.
    A simultaneous webcast of the conference call will be available on
http://www.redchip.com, which will be available in an archived playback through
November.  A digital audio replay of the conference call will also be
available through Nov. 3 at 877-790-5380.
    Featherlite, Inc., is an innovative leader in designing, manufacturing and
marketing high quality aluminum specialty trailers, transporters and luxury
motorcoaches.  With more than 75 percent of its business in the leisure,
recreation and entertainment categories, Featherlite has highly diversified
product lines offering hundreds of standard model and custom-designed aluminum
specialty trailers, specialized transporters and luxury motorcoaches available
through an extensive dealer network in the U.S. and Canada.  Featherlite is
the "Official Trailer" of NASCAR, Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART), Indy
Race League (IRL), SPORTSCAR, Automobile Racing Club of America (ARCA),
American Speed Association (ASA), World of Outlaws (W.O.O.) and the National
Hot Rod Association (NHRA).  Through its Featherlite Vantare and Featherlite
Vogue product lines, Featherlite is the "Official Luxury Motorcoach" of
NASCAR, IRL, SPORTSCAR, CART and NHRA.  For more information about the
company, please visit Featherlite's website at http://www.featherliteinc.com

    For more information, contact Doug Ewing of BlueFire Partners,
612-344-1036, for Featherlite, Inc., or Jeffery A. Mason, CFO of Featherlite,
Inc., 319-547-6000.