Excellent question, Chris! I have no idea but, next time I talk to Chris
Nowlan at Moss, I'll ask him exactly that.
I do know that a lot of the metal parts sold by V-B, Moss, Scarboro Faire,
et al, are made in Southern California by a company called Tasker Metal
Products. I doubt they are exported to England so there is, presumably a
better source in the UK. But then, the cost of shipping bumpers, etc. over
here from England would make them a lot more expensive and we're back to the
question of will enough people pay the extra to get good quality.
Lawrie
Lawrie
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Attias <cattias@cats.ucsc.edu>
To: MG Listserver <mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: Thursday, March 11, 1999 12:42 PM
Subject: RE: Moss Chrome
>Lawrie has some good insight into the thinking at Moss re: offering
>differing quality levels on things like bumpers. I'm afraid at this point
>that if Moss were to offer an accurate, high quality bumper repro set for
>twice the discount price, buyers would have a hard time stifling their
>cynicism about whether it really was a quality product.
>
>I find it a little hard to believe that in soggy olde England people would
>pay for a bumper that rusts in a couple of months, so I guess the question
>I would ask, if I knew to whom to address it, is: Does Moss International
>get its bumpers from the same sources that Moss Motors/VB use, and if they
>do, are Brits as pissed off as we are?
>
>Chris Attias
>'64 MGB
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