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Originally Posted by Karl Wescott
At risk of hijacking this thread, A good friend of the family Jim Davis (rip) of Portland was a buddy of Tommy Traylor in the early days. Jim would fly out in September meet up with Tommy who would take his truck and try to hit as many Ford dealers as they could between Texas and Pennsylvania for old stock parts. They would then go to Hershey to sell what they could, then the rest of the loot provided the seed for Specialized with Jim cherrypicking stuff to ship back to his store in Portland. By the end of the 1960's most Ford dealers had been picked over so Tommy started substituting what aftermarket stuff he could get cheap. Argentina then Taiwan.
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Tommy DID have some cool, and even rare NOS stuff sitting in the glass display cases. He also had some used pieces from time to time. I do remember buying a super-nice, very presentable used '34 grill about 1966 for $25. But much of that Argentine repro stuff was just awful. DD