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Old 04-13-2017, 11:54 AM   #21
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I TOTALLY AGREE with post#17.
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Old 04-13-2017, 12:46 PM   #22
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What does DYWFWYP stand for?

About 10 years ago while on tour with our Model A club, we were stopped at a small town with an auto parts store. I went in and found a girl about 11 years old manning the store while her father was at lunch. I asked her for two strips of 1 to 3 plasti-gauge. No questions asked, she went to the second floor and came back with just what I needed. She was a good worker and knew more than lots of older guys.
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I am online with all my shop parts jobbers. I look up and order my own stuff and minutes later its walking in the door. The days of picking up the phone and talking to the counterman are ending. Plus i get the right parts more often
Price matching and checking stock is also nice
Same thing with me. When ordering parts for my wife Lexus, used to drive 15 miles one way to be told they had to get it from the warehouse. Had to drive back the next day or two to pick it up. Now I can chat on-line with parts guy, order the part and go in the next day or two to pick it up. Way better than hanging on the phone or waiting for them to call back. Wish they all did that.

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Benson, post # 1: ". . . . "They did not even make cars in 1908!" .
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Please don't be too harsh with the young man. As some of you know, the automobile marque that had the shortest run was the now little known automobile "They" - which stood for Tom, Henry, Ely, & Yancy - the four founders of the "THEY' Automobile Company. They were in production for only 8 months before they were bought out by the Shadow Shoe-String Company.

As some of you know, the THEY Automobile Company did not begin production until 1909. So the young man behind the Auto Parts counter was indeed quite right in saying "They did not even make cars in 1908".
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Benson, post # 1: ". . . . "They did not even make cars in 1908!" .
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Please don't be too harsh with the young man. As some of you know, the automobile marque that had the shortest run was the now little known automobile "They" - which stood for Tom, Henry, Ely, & Yancy - the four founders of the "THEY' Automobile Company. They were in production for only 8 months before they were bought out by the Shadow Shoe-String Company.

As some of you know, the THEY Automobile Company did not begin production until 1909. So the young man behind the Auto Parts counter was indeed quite right in saying "They did not even make cars in 1908".
You got em on a technicality!
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"DYWFWYP" ......

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Old 04-13-2017, 09:05 PM   #27
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Oh, lord, these stupid threads pop up from time to time. Auto parts houses are in business to sell auto parts and supplies. That means 99.99% of their sales will be for vehicles built in the last 10 years. Add to that that many cars and trucks have mods made during the production run, sometimes monthly. Add to that that the pay scale for counter people is below the poverty level and you have a common scenario where no one wants, or needs, to know what radiator cap your 85 year old dinosaur needs.

The problem is not only the modern auto parts store, it's you/us and our old, obsolete beasts. For that, you need a specialty store and,fortunately they exist.
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5Window - Well said. And it needed saying. Thank you.
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Old 04-14-2017, 03:57 AM   #29
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Went to local NAPA dealer and asked for a coil for a 1930 pos. grd.

car. He had it in stock. Came with dust and all.
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Old 04-14-2017, 04:43 AM   #30
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Went to local NAPA dealer and asked for a coil for a 1930 pos. grd.

car. He had it in stock. Came with dust and all.
You must be talking to Steve at Napa- he don't need no computor. Just
remember Steve started off at Harolds Auto remember Nasty Harold?

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Our local NAPA carries (in stock 99% of the time) Champion spark plugs for both Model A and the 1/2" pipe thread Model T cars! Thankfully it is because of being right down the road from th Owls Head Transportation Museum but I rarely get any hassle when I ask about them... other than one good friend who asks if I'm still driving that old bucket of bolts.
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In one word:

Amazon.
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Old 04-14-2017, 08:12 AM   #33
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Amazon.
I've only gone to Amazon a couple times, because I still associate them with only selling books.
At one time, wasn't that the case?
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Old 04-14-2017, 08:40 AM   #34
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I've only gone to Amazon a couple times, because I still associate them with only selling books.
At one time, wasn't that the case?
Yes thats how they got their start(i think we all wish we would have bought thier stock at that time haha)

amazon is hit or miss for car parts - sometimes you can find a fair deal, other times its not so it still pays to shop around! I have amazon prime so free 2 day shipping (sometimes sunday delivery) so that plays a factor in costs as well.

Its deffinately my goto first place when buying anything.
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Old 04-14-2017, 09:18 AM   #35
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One way to look at it:

Older farmers who plowed with mules had the same problems with young clerks while ordering individual harness items at farm supply stores after tractors became popular.

Many elderly people no doubt became frustrated when young hardware store clerks knew nothing about hinges and door pulls for non-electric ice boxes ....... or even wicks for kerosene stoves.

Young gun store clerks had the same look when some old fart in the 1930's asked for black powder and percussion caps.

As we discuss how these young store auto parts store clerks are so dumb, just imagine what they say about us ... and laugh ..... after we leave their stores?
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Old Fart! Hey, I resemble that remark!
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Oh, lord, these stupid threads pop up from time to time. Auto parts houses are in business to sell auto parts and supplies. That means 99.99% of their sales will be for vehicles built in the last 10 years. Add to that that many cars and trucks have mods made during the production run, sometimes monthly. Add to that that the pay scale for counter people is below the poverty level and you have a common scenario where no one wants, or needs, to know what radiator cap your 85 year old dinosaur needs.

The problem is not only the modern auto parts store, it's you/us and our old, obsolete beasts. For that, you need a specialty store and,fortunately they exist.

Agreed. Let's face it.. they can't stay in business selling old parts to few people like us. We know where to get parts if we need them.. albeit, it's nice to have your local source be able to get something now and then. I had my local O rielly get a generator for my 56 t bird which was rebuilt... it was much cheaper and no shipping unlike the Bird sources....
I think they all try to their best degree but they have to cater to the market for which we live in and they can survice in. If the old auto parts stores were doing so well selling parts to us for our antique vehicles they would still be in business! I wish they were but unfortunately we're not in the same world as 1950 , 1960 , or even 1970 .
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Oh, lord, these stupid threads pop up from time to time. Auto parts houses are in business to sell auto parts and supplies. That means 99.99% of their sales will be for vehicles built in the last 10 years. Add to that that many cars and trucks have mods made during the production run, sometimes monthly. Add to that that the pay scale for counter people is below the poverty level and you have a common scenario where no one wants, or needs, to know what radiator cap your 85 year old dinosaur needs.

The problem is not only the modern auto parts store, it's you/us and our old, obsolete beasts. For that, you need a specialty store and,fortunately they exist.
Amen. I think a much bigger problem then a parts guy trying to help with the method that finds parts for 99% of his customers are the stupid store requirements that need a birth date to buy certain items. Tractor Supply and K Mart think they need a birth date for things like inner tube glue or spray paint. I tell them to guess, and if that doesn't work I simply walk out and go to a store I know will sell me the item.
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Old 04-14-2017, 10:20 AM   #39
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About (68) years ago, someone probably realized how many back then were always frustrated and complaining about seemingly Nothing ..... and decided to write a song with the title:

"Enjoy Yourself ..... It's Later Than You Think!"
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Turns out it has a weeping freeze plug. To 'make do' until all the freeze plugs could be changed, we decided to use a radiator cap with a lower pressure rating.



I hate to admit it, but I still haven't gotten around to changing those freeze plugs...
A great trick for the road is cayenne pepper, I always carry it on a trip.
Once a fan in a radiator along an interstate, folded over tubes, cayenne,
no leak for years,,no joke. leaking plugs on a Chrysler on back of block,
next to trans, stupid place for a casting plug,, cayenne pepper, no leak.
Pencil sized hole in center tube on radiator, can't reach it, cayenne, no leak, still there after 4 years, drive to Tucson and beyond, no problem.
It will flush out without clogging things up.
Tip# 4729-3

WARNING! It looks nasty
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