Gary,
I have restored a TR3, Austin Healey, MGB GT V8 and now into a 1955
Aston Martin.
The way I do it is to shop around. I found LBCcompany very
reasonable but got some stuff cheaper from other sources (wire
wheels). Moss can be good but I found interiors were better and
cheaper from Prestige in the UK ( BUT not original). I was quoted
$68 for my Aston rubber spark plug covers but got them from Metro
Mouldings in USA for $15- then found cheaper ones in the UK. My
Aston valves I got made to order cheaper at a specialist than they
were from Aston suppliers. I found a European supplier of MGB styled
switches at one quarter of the price from MGB parts suppliers. My
Aston uses TR3 rear lights and the prices of these vary all over the
place!!! Leather for the Aston interior is half the price from
furniture supply sources - and as good. I found fasteners difficult
and my nearest "cheap" supplier is a 2.5 hour drive away.
The ONLY way is to shop around
At 10:23 PM 9/29/2008, Gary Nafziger wrote:
>I'm just curious about how people are shopping/buying during a frame off
>restoration. Are people happhy with the TRF club deals where you pay to join
>and then get monthly coupons. Also the Moss plan where if you initially spend
>around $1500 you get a percentage off from then on and are assigned a
>technical person from Moss as a consultant.
>
>any ideas?
>
>gary n..
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Barrie
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