It always suprises when I hear of Chrylser dealers selling Rootes
parts in the 1980's. A friend of mine was restoring a MOPAR a few
years ago and complained how hard it was to find NOS parts. According
to his story, Chrysler trashed their old inventory of parts to qualify
for the goverment loan back when they almost went bankrupt. Chrysler
had to get rid of assets and no one wanted a bunch of old car parts
sitting in a wharehouse.
Jeff
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Subject: Re: Pentastar
Author: Dave McDermott <dave.mcdermott@cusys.edu> at INTERNET
Date: 11/3/97 10:10 AM
Jim and Marc,
I had a similar experience to Marc's. I had a friend who was a
Chrysler dealer in the beginning to mid 80s. I was able then to get a copy
of the Chrysler computer listings showing the Rootes parts that they had on
hand in a Newark NJ warehouse. The numbers were the original Rootes numbers
preceded by an X. I remember someone telling me at the time that there was
some kind of federal law which required a manufacturer to maintain parts for
something like 10 years after the end of production. Anyway Chrysler
maintained Rootes parts for long after the 10 year point. However, as time
went by after the mid 80s there was very little left that could be used on
Tigers. It is unfortunate Jim got such a bad impression of Chrysler because
of a local dealer in his area. I am not particularly a fan of Chrysler but
they didn't stop supplying all parts in 70-71 which was only 4 years after
production. Of more concern to me is that Chrysler's purchase of Rootes
ultimately led to the end of Tiger production.
However I can see their point of view in selling a product with a
competitors engine, transmission etc.
Dave McDermott
At 11:34 PM 10/31/97 -0500, Marc James Small wrote:
>At 11:11 PM 10/31/97 -0500, Jim Barrett wrote:
>>About 1970-71 I went to the local Chrysler dealer parts counter to get parts
>>for my
>>Tiger II. They told me they had been directed to trash all the parts as
>>Chrysler
>>would no longer support Sunbeam cars. I haven't liked Chrysler ever since.
>>Any one try to get Simca parts? Chrysler did the same thing to them.
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>Well, as late as '86 I was still buying Sunbeam parts through my local
>Chrysler dealer. You just had to adjust the part number. I don't know if
>anything is still available, but I would doubt it. But '71 is way too early.
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>Marc
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