Hey all, are the places below the top parts dealers to purchase parts and accessories that are similar to OEM?

OPGI
Fusick Automotive Products
Olds Parts
The Parts Place
Thornton Muscle Cars

 

InLineTube
Legendary Auto Interiors

 

Classic Tube
Right Stuff Detailing

 

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Define "similar to OEM"

Let's be honest here, With very few exceptions, none of the repro parts available today are as good as OEM. That's unfortunately a fact of life. If you really want OEM, get a parts book, look up the factory P/N, and write a search string in Ebay. Then sit back and save your pennies while you wait for that NOS part to show up for sale.

Virtually all of the repro parts available today are made in the same couple of offshore factories, and everyone sells them at different price points. Unfortunately, those are about the best quality parts you can get. Customer service is a very different question from the usual suspects of vendors, however.

 

Also be careful in that some NOS parts deteriorate with age. So they effectively could be inferior to reproduction parts. This is especially true for parts that have rubber components.

 

Great info! Thanks for the responses and your time.

 

also be careful people like to put reproduction parts in oem boxes and sell them on ebay some repoduction parts got the part number on them and are hard to tell the difference between the two.

 

Important point jopa pertaining to ebay. I see a couple sellers who have numerous listings for what they claim are NOS parts. They photo them with some GM box or package, never show the part number, and claim they bought them in bulk and the packaging is not included. The packaging they show is typically, in fact, not representative of the way they were originally provided by GM. The parts are reproductions or even available at your local discount auto parts store. Look for details that may be missing on these parts, ask questions. The owner of one of the parts houses you inquired about does this often under a different ebay seller's name. This bothers me as its nothing short of fraudulent activity with the intent to deceive for monetary gain. But on ebay they can get away with it.

 

I can totally vouch for that due to it happened to me last year on a set of (OEM) correct front lower control arm bolts, seller showed a GM package but when they showed up they were in a ziplock bag.

 

Yeah and the accompanying ad is usually "box not included" that way they can do it again. There's a fine art in implying stuff to get a sale but not actually promising it that makes it legal, but squarely in the province of a shitbag.

 

If your looking for oem parts the person I know of is a named Ron. He got a website it’s called Ron’s classics cutlass. He does not have the parts no site but he got almost everything you could need. About a month ago I drove 7 hours to him and got a 1971 oem ram hood and passenger fender. A spoiler all the hood pins and Crome for the hood. Few other things too. He is not cheap only bad thing. Lol but he’s a good guy and got a lot of knowledge about the cars. And he sale’s parts from fusick too.

 

Classic Olds in Clemmons, NC. See Jim and Connie Michaels. He's the most knowledgeable Olds guy I've ever come across. He knows the cars by year and option. Huge supply of parts in stock and the nicest guy you will ever meet. Restores them and sells parts for the last 40+years.

 

Agreed! Jim and Connie are great and parts supply is generous. No varnish with Jim and will assist in every way possible, even if just to answer a question - highly recommended!