Being an owner of an MT2 I greatly appreciate having a rep here on these boards to answer my questions, and they are generally answered very quickly.
CaseyDDR, at least you have a local hobby shop that carry's CEN cars/parts. I have to mail order everything when something breaks.
I do know that
www.rcmodels.com has them for 289.99 right now and I picked mine up for 279.99 from them about a month ago.
Anyway, sorry about your luck at your LHS.