You can do a couple things. If you are lucky enough to find a good parts guy at your local Chevy dealer, you could go in there and ask him to look up a part and see if it is still available. And just order it. Or sometimes stuff will be recently discontinued and he can do a search to see if ANY GM dealer has it. (I've seen a few Chevy parts counter guys who will just tell you a part for our old cars is not available because they are too lazy to get the book out from under the counter and look up the numbers like they had to do in the old days. The part #'s for most of the stuff for our cars is not in the computer database. Many times the original part #'s will have to be looked up in the book and then searched in the computer for the NEW part number that supercedes the old one.Or you can get do what I finally did and paid $50 off ebay for a "GM Parts and Accessories Catalog" . This is the book that the parts guys use to look up your part #'s. The part guy was much happier when I got my book and I could just go in and ask for a list of part #'s and he could just look them up and tell me if they were available or not. I would often just getmy numbers and go to gmpartsdirect.com and search online. It tells you if a part is available or not. Then either order it there or go to your parts dealer and order it. I found the prices to be about the same whether from the website or the dealer once you factor in shipping, plus the dealer usually had them to me in a day or two. Hope this helps! (You'd be surprised at what is still available for our cars from GM. Then again, you's be surprised what is NOT too!) Josh Gin (NoNeck) Visit my Chevelle website www.NoNecksChevelle.com ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 5:05 PM Subject: [Chevelle-List] parts question
> doe any one know..... > i was looking at a GM resoration parts book, there are no pictures, only > descriptions, i thought gm made all the parts listed in the book, the gm > parts mgr said no, they get them from the place listed, like classic > industris, or goodmark, is there a book which shows the parts gm actually is > remaking?? i ordered some door handles for my 68, they came in gm boxes, > (from year one) i paid 42.00 each for them, i could have gotten them for > 23.00 from the gm dealer!! i looked for them in this restoration book, they > were not there, it just looks like parts gm does not make are in there. is > the only way to know, to ask trim parts before you order, "is this made by > GM?" if they say yes, say no thanks??? then i would need a gm part # right? > (to order from GM). is what they make a secret or something???, > > ----------------------------------------------------- > To Unsubscribe please visit www.chevelles.net/list.html > To start a new topic, send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe please visit www.chevelles.net/list.html To start a new topic, send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
