Originally Posted by A12
Originally Posted by toplescuda
Originally Posted by 71TA
Mentioned to a customer I had purchased an NOS A body 73-76 AC Heater Box a few years back. I used it to create my gasket set for that box. Told him after I was done with it I had a hard time selling it. He said that because NOS means "Not Of Standard". He said it was a defective unit that was put back on the shelf cause it didn't meet the specs/standards.

He was pretty confident so I didn't want to go down the rabbit hole with him. Guess that means there will be one less person not buying crappy "Not Of Standard" parts smile

And for the most part he is correct
Often parts for what ever reason did not meet the specks set so was not able to go on the line when the vehicles were built
They however were to good to be threw away. So they become service part
I have a pair of nos fenders on my 70 barracuda. Both were made missing the mounting for the header panel to bolt to on bottom


A company I worked for would every so often purge a lot of obsolete or overstock parts and literally throw them into the dumpster. Some of the employees would get caught "dumpster diving" and be reprimanded and even get time off or fired to doing this. Why? because the parts that were purged were used as a tax write-off and never to be re-used, sold or anything again. Big fines for tax fraud or tax evasion if caught. If back in the day they sold parts and didn't write them off then I could see them being resold or used. If the were written off and used as a tax credit then tsk Oh and some parts were purged not only as obsolete but because it cost more to warehouse them than what their current value was or what the warehouse space cost to keep the item.


many years ago a good friend of mine toured the parts depot in Detroit . He said there were dumpsters full of mid to late 70s sheetmetal , fenders , doors , quarter panels by the tons. Trim mdlgs by the thousands .

All of it slated for the dump / recycling . Absolutely NONE of it could be purchased