<VV> local parts stores

[Norman C. Witte]

It would be worth hearing from Lon and Cal on this, but I suspect that they
don't want to be wholesalers.  Any of the retail outlets you mentioned would
have to be able to buy at a wholesale rate, but the distribution chain
through our major vendors is so established, that Clarks and Underground
probably would not get enough volume to justify a significant wholesale
discount, and any business that they did get would simply scavenge sales
from their current customer base.  The net result is that they would have to
recover the decrease in revenue through higher retail prices for their
direct customers.

In short, the reason that parts aren't readily available through traditional
venues is that our alternatives are just so much better that there's no
demand through those traditional sources.

Norm Witte 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: DAVID HUSS [mailto:dhuss1953 at sbcglobal.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 10:24 AM
> To: VirtualVairs at corvair.org
> Subject: <VV> local parts stores
> 
> Just a general question to all why is it so hard for local auto parts
> stores to carry
>   oil filters, starters, generators, gaskets or other standard replacement
> engine parts
>   for our CORVAIRS ? See I work for AZO part time and we can get parts for
> other cars back to 1930, may be we have to order them but we can still get
> them.Or does people like Clark Corvair and Corvair Underground have a
> monopoly, cause my local Chevy Dealer can't even get part for the Corvair
> but many of the other Chevy's parts made before 1960 and around the
> Corvair they have NO PROBLEM. I just though I would throw this out for a
> general discussion.
> 
>   64vair
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