That must of taken a vast amount of capital $$$ to buy all that NOS.
frank Mitchel
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That must of taken a vast amount of capital $$$ to buy all that NOS.
MrMoparCHP
Old Man with a Hat
At that time it was like buying 90's crap today, pennies on the dollar, nobody wanted it.
Alan
patrick66
Old Man with a Hat
Several other current Mopar parts dealers were doing the same thing up through the late '80s or so. I know a guy in Dallas who bought up as many Hemi-specific items through C-P-D dealers, from the early '70s on. His shop looks like a Chrysler parts department, with the majority of his stuff being for Hemis.
Damn.....I missed out on all that.
I was overseas most of the mid to late 1970's, ALL of the 1980's but 10 months in 1983, and January 1990 until March 1992.
I was overseas most of the mid to late 1970's, ALL of the 1980's but 10 months in 1983, and January 1990 until March 1992.
tbm3fan
Old Man with a Hat
Yep. There is a business, up in Oregon I believe, that was buying obsolete parts for military helicopters way back then. Pennies on the dollar for a 100 lb. pallet of parts. Now think 60's helos and just guess who you need to go to in order to find a part for your operational Huey.
polara71
Old Man with a Hat
I cant tell you how many guys have told me stories of them buying inventories along the way and throwing out the C body stuff. As late as 2000 this was happening, hard to believe.......
When searching for parts for our C bodies, I usually first go to Parts Voice to see if they can direct me to a stocking dealer. Often times the only source for many of our parts is Collector's Auto Supply. I have wondered where they source their parts since it is clear when dealing with them, they themselves do not have the parts, but they find them elsewhere than the usual dealers. Well, it dawned on me that AMS Obsolete, formerly Mitchell's Auto Parts, does not list their parts on Parts Voice, but that Collector's Auto Supply obtained Mitchell's inventory and they post his inventory as their own on Parts Voice. So if you think Mitchell's is expensive, then buying from Collector's Auto Supply is even more so since they place a surcharge on what they obtain from AMS Obsolete so they can buy it and send it to you like it was their own. I don't see why AMS doesn't just list on Parts Voice and eliminate Collector's Auto Supply as the middleman??
IIRC when I ordered a few parts, Collector's Auto Supply has 2 warehouse's, one in Washington or Oregon and another in Canada.
I've had pretty good luck getting parts from Parts Voice. I even have haggled on prices from Mopar dealers that had the parts I was looking for...all they can say is no when you ask to work on the price a little...it covers the shipping at least.
Moment of silence for Frank at Nats today.
I would suspect those are just two different call centers or even more likely, two different phone numbers for the same call center. When I see on Parts Voice that they are the only source of a rare part, they invariably also show they have 22 in stock. But when I have talked with their representatives a couple of times before I wised up, they always said they would have to check with their source to see if they still had it available and what the current price was and that there was only 1 available, not 22 they normally show. So whenever I need a special part and see Collectors Auto Supply has it, I just go directly to AMS and find it there every time for less.
polara71
Old Man with a Hat
MANY , many times the quantity of a certain part is 22. That seems to be their generic number .
I have maintained all along that they are a " broker " of sorts. They sell parts listed by other vendors so odds are if Valley Vintage has one and you get it from Collectors, VV will no longer have theirs.
Collectors has no stock at all.........
I have maintained all along that they are a " broker " of sorts. They sell parts listed by other vendors so odds are if Valley Vintage has one and you get it from Collectors, VV will no longer have theirs.
Collectors has no stock at all.........
bluefury361
Old Man with a Hat
polara71
Old Man with a Hat
That's just it Will, they don't have anything.... They sell you the other guys part.
bluefury361
Old Man with a Hat
I've only ever ordered one item from Collectors parts. It was a long process ...... lots of phone calls, and they sent the wrong part. At least they refunded after I sent photos of their part and the part I needed together.
polara71
Old Man with a Hat
I don't doubt their honor....
Ten plus years ago I bought an NOS superlite grille from them...... I found one*in*Florida a few days later and a hundred cheaper. When I called that dealer he had just sold it. ..... You see where that went...
Ten plus years ago I bought an NOS superlite grille from them...... I found one*in*Florida a few days later and a hundred cheaper. When I called that dealer he had just sold it. ..... You see where that went...
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
Anybody want to talk about Atlas?
Whenever I have called them about a part listed on Parts Voice that they say they have, it has never panned out yet. And what parts they do have otherwise, are priced at a ridiculous level. I don't even bother with them anymore. Attitude was wanting too.............................
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