[Oletrucks] best place to buy restoration parts for 1954 3100 chevy

[Gale Gorman]

I was shopping for some sheet metal parts and the freight charges drove the overall cost out of sight. LMC charges a one time $125 even if I had 7 or 8 parts in the truck. Brothers has a charge per piece like they're getting shipped separately. The sheet metal from LMC looks like good quality and the packaging was outstanding.

I bought wood from Brothers and it actually came from Mar-K. Very nice quality. I looked at The Mar-K website and they didn't offer drilling and countersinking but Brothers did for $30 per set. Mar-K may have done the drilling but I didn't know about that source until the boxes showed up.

Also needed the cross sills and metal strips for one truck and they came from Brothers also and they look like good quality.

I've shopped the catalogs of other sources with an eye toward what looks most like original equipment.

Now I'll have a look at Bow Tie Bits.
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Gale Gorman
Houston

On May 1, 2010, at 3:24 PM, Jim Krontz wrote:

I found lots of the little pieces at Bow Tie Bits, at a reasonable cost.
They don't carry everything, many other items had to be purchased from
Brothers Trucks. LMC has lots too, but I found the cost a little higher.

If there was "one place" who had everything at a good price, there would
probably only be one place... If you know what I mean.

Jim
57 Chevy
Mesa, AZ

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Subject: [Oletrucks] best place to buy restoration parts for 1954 3100 chevy

I am doing the second restoration on my 54 five window 3100 and am  
wondering if there is a best place to purchase parts.
Need lots of parts and don't want to be buying from a lot of different  
vendor's.  Need wiring, radiator, engine replacement bolt's,
rubber, list goes on and on.  Any suggestion's appreciated.
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