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Richard (PapaG) Green
Mysterious J wrote:
Any muscle car restoration parts not directly from the OEMs are made by aftermarket companies under license with or at least with approval of the OEMs. Take a part from one of the better aftermarket muscle car restoration part suppliers, and compare it to NOS. You'll find that for most parts the quality of the aftermarket part is made using the same materials and processes as OEM, but many times with more modern materials that last longer. A good example is dash pads. You can get an aftermarket dashpad for an old Chevelle that is as good if not better than NOS. Now compare an NOS Type 3 dashpad to an aftermarket part. There's no comparison.
Off to Laguna Seca, Jim '68 Fastback
Jim Adney wrote:
On 10 Mar 2005 at 7:37, Mysterious J wrote:
The blame for this is squarely on Volkswagen.
I don't think this is entirely fair. I don't think most of the Muscle Car parts are made by Ford or GM, so the quality of those parts is not under their control. Part quality is pretty much controlled by the market, and our market is dominated by kids who really have very little understanding of what they are doing. They're just buying whatever the VW rags tell them is the good stuff, nevermind that the rags are dominated by their advertisers and that there is little chance to find out which parts are actually good, or even useful.
As long as words like "billet" are equated with quality we are going to have a problem.
Anyone seen an ad for the Bill Fisher book in any of the VW rags lately? And yet THATs where every VW neophyte should start.
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