VISTA TECHNOLOGIES INC.
                    AMENDMENT to STOCK OPTION AGREEMENT
                       UNDER 1994 STOCK OPTION PLAN
                  ______________________________________

                               Original Date of Grant:  February 15, 1996

  WHEREAS, VISTA TECHNOLOGIES INC., a Nevada corporation (the
"Company"), previously granted to TRIDENT MANAGEMENT INC. (the "Optionee"),
pursuant to the 1994 Stock Option Plan of the Company (the "Plan"), a stock
option (the "Option") to purchase a total of ONE HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND
(150,000) shares of Common Stock of the Company at a price of TWO DOLLARS
FIFTY CENTS ($2.50) per share (subject to adjustment as provided in Section
6(i) of the Plan), on terms and conditions set forth in the Option agreement
and the Plan; and

  WHEREAS, the shares subject to such Option were to be exercisable
either during the last 30 days of the five-year term of the Option, or
alternatively, from and after any date on which the Company's Common Stock
Price equalled or exceeded $10.00 per share; and

  WHEREAS, the vesting terms of such option were established on a
mistake of fact as to the accounting treatment to be accorded such Options;
and 

  WHEREAS, to conform the Options to the Company's standard form of
stock options and qualify for the accounting treatment intended by the
Company's Board of Directors, the parties hereto agree to amend Section 1 of
the Option agreement relating to vesting terms and conditions:

  NOW, therefore, the parties agree that Section 1 of the Option
agreement is hereby amended in its entirety as of February 15, 1996 to read as
follows:

         1.   VESTING.  SUBJECT TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF
  THIS AGREEMENT AND THE PLAN, THE SHARES SUBJECT THIS OPTION
  SHALL BE EXERCISABLE AS FOLLOWS:

  (A)    THE FIRST TWELVE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED (12,500) SHARES
         COVERED BY THIS OPTION MAY BE EXERCISED AT ANY TIME, IN
         WHOLE OR IN PART, FROM AND AFTER MAY 15, 1996; AND
 
  (B)    THE NEXT TWELVE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED (12,500) SHARES
         COVERED BY THIS OPTION MAY BE EXERCISED AT ANY TIME, IN
         WHOLE OR IN PART, FROM AND AFTER AUGUST 15, 1996; AND

  (C)    THE NEXT TWELVE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED (12,500) SHARES
         COVERED BY THIS OPTION MAY BE EXERCISED AT ANY TIME, IN
         WHOLE OR IN PART, FROM AND AFTER NOVEMBER 15, 1996; AND

  (D)    THE NEXT TWELVE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED (12,500) SHARES
         COVERED BY THIS OPTION MAY BE EXERCISED AT ANY TIME, IN
         WHOLE OR IN PART, FROM AND AFTER FEBRUARY 15, 1997; AND

  (E)    THE NEXT TWELVE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED (12,500) SHARES
         COVERED BY THIS OPTION MAY BE EXERCISED AT ANY TIME, IN
         WHOLE OR IN PART, FROM AND AFTER MAY 15, 1997; AND<PAGE>
  (F)    THE NEXT TWELVE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED (12,500) SHARES
         COVERED BY THIS OPTION MAY BE EXERCISED AT ANY TIME, IN
         WHOLE OR IN PART, FROM AND AFTER AUGUST 15, 1997; AND

  (G)    THE NEXT TWELVE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED (12,500) SHARES
         COVERED BY THIS OPTION MAY BE EXERCISED AT ANY TIME, IN
         WHOLE OR IN PART, FROM AND AFTER NOVEMBER 15, 1997; AND

  (H)    THE NEXT TWELVE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED (12,500) SHARES
         COVERED BY THIS OPTION MAY BE EXERCISED AT ANY TIME, IN
         WHOLE OR IN PART, FROM AND AFTER FEBRUARY 15, 1998; AND

  (I)    THE NEXT TWELVE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED (12,500) SHARES
         COVERED BY THIS OPTION MAY BE EXERCISED AT ANY TIME, IN
         WHOLE OR IN PART, FROM AND AFTER MAY 15, 1998; AND

  (J)    THE NEXT TWELVE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED (12,500) SHARES
         COVERED BY THIS OPTION MAY BE EXERCISED AT ANY TIME, IN
         WHOLE OR IN PART, FROM AND AFTER AUGUST 15, 1998; AND

  (K)    THE NEXT TWELVE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED (12,500) SHARES
         COVERED BY THIS OPTION MAY BE EXERCISED AT ANY TIME, IN
         WHOLE OR IN PART, FROM AND AFTER NOVEMBER 15, 1998; AND

  (L)    THE REMAINING TWELVE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED (12,500) SHARES
         COVERED BY THIS OPTION MAY BE EXERCISED AT ANY TIME, IN
         WHOLE OR IN PART, FROM AND AFTER FEBRUARY 15, 1999;

  PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT IN NO EVENT SHALL THIS OPTION BE
  EXERCISABLE LATER THAN THE EXPIRATION DATE.

                                VISTA TECHNOLOGIES INC.


[CORPORATE SEAL]
                                By: ________________________
                                       Thomas A. Schultz, President
  
By:  __________________________
     William M. Curtis, Secretary

ACCEPTED AND APPROVED BY THE OPTIONEE:

TRIDENT MANAGEMENT INC.


By: _____________________________        Date:  August 15, 1996
      Murray D. Watson






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