THIS
      NOTE AND THE SECURITIES UNDERLYING THIS NOTE HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER
      THE
      SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR QUALIFIED UNDER
      APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THE SECURITIES MAY NOT BE SOLD OR OTHERWISE
      TRANSFERRED IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION AND QUALIFICATION WITHOUT,
      EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE AGREED BY SHUMATE INDUSTRIES, INC., AN OPINION OF COUNSEL
      REASONABLY SATISFACTORY TO SHUMATE INDUSTRIES, INC. THAT SUCH REGISTRATION
      AND
      QUALIFICATION ARE NOT REQUIRED.

     

    CONVERTIBLE
      PROMISSORY NOTE

    


    
      	
              $2,000,000.00

            	
              July
                10, 2007

            


    

    


    FOR
      VALUE RECEIVED,
      the
      undersigned, Shumate
      Industries, Inc.,
      a
      Delaware corporation (the “Maker”),
      hereby promises to pay to the order of Whitebox
      Shumate Ltd.,
      a
      British Virgin Islands corporation, or its assigns (the “Payee”),
      at
      such place as the Payee may designate in writing, the principal sum of Two
      Million and No/100 Dollars ($2,000,000.00) under the terms set forth
      herein.

     

    1. Interest.
      The
      unpaid principal balance hereof from time to time outstanding shall bear
      interest from the date hereof at the rate of ten percent (10%) per annum;
      provided, however that from and after an event of default under Section 4 below,
      such interest rate shall increase to fifteen (15%) per annum (but in no event
      greater than the highest rate permitted by law).

     

    2. Payment.
      Except
      as otherwise provided herein, and subject to any default hereunder, the
      principal and interest hereof is payable as follows:

     

    (a) Interest
      only is payable in cash in arrears on the first day of each month, beginning
      on
      August 1, 2007 (the “Scheduled
      Interest Payment”).
      However, if Maker gives Payee written notice five (5) days before the due date
      of a particular Scheduled Interest Payment of Maker’s election to defer payment
      of such Scheduled Interest Payment, the amount of such Scheduled Interest
      Payment shall, from and after its otherwise scheduled due date, become part
      of
      the principal balance hereof.

     

    (b) If
      Maker
      fails to file the Registration Statement (as defined below) with the U.S.
      Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Act and applicable
      state
      securities laws within 180 days of the date of this Note, or if Maker fails
      to
      obtain effectiveness of the Registration Statement under the Securities Act
      and
      applicable state securities laws within 270 days of the date of this Note,
      then
      for each full month (prorated for partial months) that either or both of these
      failures continue (as aggregated together, the “Failure
      Term”),
      Maker
      shall pay in arrears in cash, on the first day of each month, additional
      interest (the “Contingent
      Additional Interest”,
      which
      automatically shall become part of the principal amount of this Note) at a
      rate
      equal to $3,780.00 per month for any portion of the Failure Term. The
      “Registration
      Statement”
refers
      to a registration statement filed by the Company with the SEC under the
      Securities Act and applicable state securities laws pursuant to a Registration
      Rights Agreement of this date between the Maker and the Payee (the “Registration
      Rights Agreement”).

     

    
      
         

      

      
         

        
          

        

      

      
         

      

    

     

    (c) On
      the
      earlier of July 10, 2008 or the initial closing date of the Subsequent Equity
      Financing as defined below (the “Maturity
      Date”),
      the
      outstanding principal balance of this Note (inclusive of any Scheduled Interest
      Payments converted to principal pursuant to Section 2(a) above) will be due
      and
      payable in cash, together with all then-accrued but unpaid interest (including
      any then accrued, but unpaid, Contingent Additional Interest). Maker agrees
      to
      give Payee at least ten (10) days prior written notice of Maker’s required
      payoff of this Note if the Maturity Date will be prior to July 10, 2008 (the
      “Early
      Payment Notice”).
      For
      purposes of this Note, the “Subsequent
      Equity Financing”
refers
      to the first bona fide third party sale by Maker of its equity securities
      (including, without limitation, equity or debt securities directly or indirectly
      convertible or exchangeable for equity securities, alone or with any debt
      securities) occurring after the date of this Note.

     

    3. Conversion.
      

     

    (a) At
      any
      time while any portion of this Note remains unpaid, the Payee may elect (by
      giving written notice to Maker) to convert, at the Conversion Rate below, all
      or
      any portion of the principal and/or accrued, but unpaid, interest hereon into
      securities of Maker. Within ten (10) days after any conversion of this Note,
      the
      Maker shall at its expense issue and deliver to Payee a certificate or
      certificates for the number and type of securities issuable upon
      conversion.

     

    (b) The
      “Conversion
      Rate”
is
      as
      follows:

     

    (i) For
      any
      conversion elected in writing by the Payee (other than into the Subsequent
      Equity Financing pursuant to Section 3(b)(ii) below), the Payee may convert
      this
      Note into shares of the Maker’s Common Stock at a Conversion Rate equal to $1.89
      per share.

     

    (ii) For
      any
      conversion elected in writing by the Payee into the Subsequent Equity Financing,
      the Payee may convert this Note into the same securities sold by Maker in the
      Subsequent Equity Financing using the price per share, unit or other security
      as
      the applicable Conversion Rate. The Payee’s right to convert into the Subsequent
      Equity Financing will expire 24 hours in advance of the initial closing of
      the
      Subsequent Equity Financing so long as the Maker has given written notice to
      the
      Payee pursuant to Section 3(e) below.

     

    (c) The
      Conversion Rate (and, as applicable, the factors above used to compute it)
      shall
      be adjusted proportionally for any subsequent stock dividend or split, stock
      combination or other similar recapitalization, reclassification or
      reorganization of or affecting Maker’s Common Stock. In case of any
      consolidation or merger to which the Maker is a party other than a merger or
      consolidation in which the Maker is the continuing corporation, or in case
      of
      any sale or conveyance to another corporation of the property of the Maker
      as an
      entirety or substantially as an entirety, or in the case of any statutory
      exchange of securities with another corporation (including any exchange effected
      in connection with a merger of a third corporation into the Maker), then instead
      of receiving shares of Maker’s Common Stock or other of Maker’s securities,
      Payee shall have the right thereafter to receive the kind and amount of shares
      of stock and other securities and property which the Payee would have owned
      or
      have been entitled to receive immediately after such consolidation, merger,
      statutory exchange, sale or conveyance had the same portion of this Note been
      paid or converted immediately prior to the effective date of such consolidation,
      merger, statutory exchange, sale or conveyance and, in any such case, if
      necessary, appropriate adjustment shall be made in the application of the
      provisions set forth in this Section with respect to the rights and interests
      thereafter of the Payee, to the end that the provisions set forth in this
      Section shall thereafter correspondingly be made applicable, as nearly as may
      reasonably be, in relation to any shares of stock and other securities and
      property thereafter deliverable in connection with this Note. The provisions
      of
      this subsection shall similarly apply to successive consolidations, mergers,
      statutory exchanges, sales or conveyances.

     

    
      
         

      

      
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    (d) Payee
      will have the same registration rights with respect to any Common Stock or
      other
      securities of Maker issued to Payee upon any conversion hereof pursuant to
      Section 3(b)(i) above as Payee otherwise has under the Registration Rights
      Agreement. Payee will have the same registration rights with respect to any
      Common Stock or other securities of Maker issued to Payee upon any conversion
      hereof pursuant to Section 3(b)(ii) above as granted by the Maker to the other
      purchasers of securities in the Subsequent Equity Financing.

     

    (e) In
      addition to giving the Early Payment Notice, while any portion of this Note
      remains unpaid, Maker agrees to give Payee at least ten (10) days prior written
      notice of the initial closing date and time of any Subsequent Equity Financing
      and any event that would adjust the Conversion Rate under Section 3(c)
      above.

     

    4. Default.
      The
      occurrence of any one or more of the following events shall constitute an event
      of default, upon which Payee may declare the entire principal amount of this
      Note, together with all accrued but unpaid interest, to be immediately due
      and
      payable:

     

    (a) The
      Maker
      shall fail to make any required payment of principal or interest (including,
      without limitation, as to Contingent Additional Interest that becomes part
      of
      the principal hereof and any interest accrued thereon) when due, and such
      failure shall continue through five (5) days thereafter.

     

    (b) The
      Maker
      shall be in material default under any other term or provision of this Note,
      under any term or provision of the Note Purchase Agreement of this date between
      Maker and Payee (the “Note
      Purchase Agreement”),
      under
      the warrant to purchase 400,000 shares of Maker’s Common Stock issued in
      connection herewith to Payee (the “Warrant”)
      or
      under the Registration Rights Agreement, and any such default is not cured
      within ten (10) days after written notice from Payee to Maker. Notwithstanding
      the foregoing, a failure by the Maker to timely file or obtain effectiveness
      of
      the Registration Statement will not, in and of itself, constitute an event
      of
      default (it being agreed that Contingent Additional Interest will instead accrue
      hereunder upon such failure).

     

    
      
         

      

      
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    (c) The
      Maker
      shall become insolvent or shall fail to pay, or become unable to pay, its debts
      as they become due; or any bankruptcy, reorganization, debt arrangement or
      other
      proceeding under any bankruptcy or insolvency law shall be instituted by or
      against the Maker.

     

    (d) Any
      representation or warranty of the Maker contained in the Note Purchase Agreement
      shall be untrue in any material respect, or Maker shall fail to materially
      comply with any covenants or agreements of Maker contained in this Note, the
      Note Purchase Agreement, the Warrant or the Registration Rights
      Agreement.

     

    (e) The
      Maker
      incurs an event of default under the terms of its secured revolving line of
      credit facility with Stillwater National Bank (the “Stillwater
      Facility”).

     

    (f) The
      Maker
      incurs aggregate debt senior in security or right of payment to this Note
      (whether or not inclusive of the Stillwater Facility) in excess of $10,000,000,
      without obtaining the Payee’s prior written consent.

     

    Without
      limiting the above, the Maker acknowledges that payments on the various
      scheduled due dates in Sections 2 are of essence and that any failure to timely
      pay any installment of principal or interest (within any permitted grace period
      above) permits Payee to declare this Note immediately due in cash in its
      entirety without any prior notice of any kind to Maker, except for the specific
      notices provided above.

     

    6. Limitations
      on Conversion.
      Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the number of shares
      of Common Stock that Payee may acquire upon any conversion of this Note shall
      be
      limited to the extent necessary to insure that, following such conversion,
      the
      total number of shares of Common Stock then beneficially owed by Payee and
      its
      affiliates and any other persons whose beneficial ownership of Common Stock
      would be aggregated with the Payee’s for purposes of Section 13(d) of the
      Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange
      Act”)
      does
      not exceed 4.99% of the total number of issued and outstanding shares of Common
      Stock (including for such purpose the shares of Common Stock issuable upon
      such
      conversion). For such purposes, beneficial ownership shall be determined in
      accordance with Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations
      promulgated thereunder. This provision shall not restrict the number of shares
      of Common Stock which Payee may receive or beneficially own in order to
      determine the amount of securities or other consideration that Payee may receive
      in the event of a merger, sale or other transaction as contemplated in Section
      3(c) of this Note. 

     

    8. Applicable
      Law.
      THE
      VALIDITY, CONSTRUCTION AND ENFORCEABILITY OF THE NOTE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY
      THE
      INTERNAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA, WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO CONFLICT
      OF
      LAWS PRINCIPLES THEREOF.

     

    9. Waivers.
      The
      Maker hereby waives presentment for payment, notice of dishonor, protest and
      notice of payment and all other notices of any kind in connection with the
      enforcement of this Note.

     

    
      
         

      

      
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    10. No
      Setoffs.
      The
      Maker shall pay principal and interest under the Note without any deduction
      for
      any setoff or counterclaim.

     

    11. Costs
      of Collection.
      If this
      Note is not paid when due, the Maker shall pay Payee’s reasonable costs of
      collection, including reasonable attorney’s fees.

    
      	 	 	 
	 	SHUMATE
              INDUSTRIES, INC.
	 
 	 
 	 
 
	
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