Originally Posted by wingman
This thread has got me thinking of all the car vendors/manufacturers/catalogs/websites that existed 10-20 years ago that are gone now.

I'm not saying don't complain about YO if they deserve it, but restoring cars is not cheap--especially old niche cars like ours.

These vendors have to make some money to stay in business, and shipping is outrageous right now.

Some of the guys on Moparts crack me up--they scream about how much stuff costs and how vendors are ripping them off. And then 5 minutes later they are griping how stuff is low quality, cheap overseas junk. Gee, wonder how it got that way.

It's a race to the bottom, boys.


I can think of all the NEW vendors that where not here 20-30 years ago.

So if Year One wants to rest on it’s laurels and being a “one time” market leader… well, that just gives room for other new businesses to compete.

I know someone that manufactures a few repro parts to Year One and others. Selling to Year One for 20+ years… things have changed over there.


Last edited by autoxcuda; 12/04/22 04:18 PM.