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Shipping Big Auto Parts Cheaply

November 11, 2018 | Posted in Helpful Tips, Shipping | By

One of the curses of dealing with shipping automotive parts is that some of the parts are really big.  A lot of them, however, don’t weigh a lot.  We often end up fighting the freight demon of dimensional weight. Let’s

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Mea culpa, posting frequency fail

This orange C3 Corvette looks great from the driver side. The passenger side is another story.

November 6, 2018 | Posted in Helpful Tips, update | By

Good evening folks, I have been really bad about posting on the blog here, but I am going to set a goal of doing better at that and getting at least one or two posts up a week. I have

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Chevrolet Corvette Items For Sale

August 21, 2018 | Posted in Corvettes, Parts Cars, update | By

Just a quick note, we’re adding items for Chevrolet Corvette daily in our eBay store. Many hard to find and highly desirable parts are going up for sale! Just a few examples in the photo below, hope you’re having a great

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More progress pictures on our 1976 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray

June 29, 2018 | Posted in Corvettes, update | By

Details: 1976 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray, moderately built 350, automatic, straight, never wrecked, former straight-line race car. Dodge Viper Red. Has minimal interior and a custom racing dash in it at present. Car is restorable or is going to be a bad

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Some pictures of our 1976 Corvette Stingray in-progress

June 13, 2018 | Posted in Corvettes, update | By

Just a quick post to share some pictures of the on-going project we’re doing turning this never-wrecked former race car back into something at least summer streetable.  This will eventually be for sale, we’re not going to put a heater/ac

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Happy (groan) Tax Day!

April 17, 2018 | Posted in Shop Time, update | By

Greetings everyone, it’s the wonderful day everyone looks forward to… The deadline to file your taxes in the USA.  Gag me with a goat horn.  We got ours done and due to the recent changes actually got a small refund

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New Season, New Domain Name for the store!

April 10, 2018 | Posted in Helpful Tips, update | By

We’ve always been proactive in making our stuff easy to find, but something escaped our attention…  The link to our eBay store has always been http://stores.ebay.com/sportscarsalvage. Not horribly hard to find, but, well, long and not easy to remember.  We’ve had

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Spring and Status and Stuff

February 24, 2018 | Posted in 1989 Chrysler LeBaron Turbo, Family, Parts Cars, Shop Time, update | By

We know we promised the Chrysler LeBaron parts would be appearing on our eBay store soon, but we had a bit of a farm emergency in that Stormy, our 3 months out Boer buckling, developed pneumonia. We had almost a week of

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1989 Chrysler LeBaron Convertible Turbo – Our Next Part Out

February 11, 2018 | Posted in 1989 Chrysler LeBaron Turbo, Parts Cars | By

This 1989 Chrysler LeBaron GC Turbo will be our next part-out.  Everything works, car was T-boned and has a salvage title. Engine runs strong and builds boost.

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1994-1998 Ford Mustang Side Scoop Removal

November 11, 2017 | Posted in Helpful Tips, Mustangs | By

I was just asked how you correctly remove the external rear side vent scoops on a 1994-1998 Ford Mustang. They have threaded studs with nuts that must be removed from the INSIDE. Some models have a plastic clip. You need

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