We use what we sell and will not compromise our reputation on selling a part that we would not use on one of our own restorations. Ever since being a baby, cars have always been a way of life within the family. This business/hobby basically can trace its birth back to the original purchase of Mom and Dad's first new car, a 69 Charger RT. The Charger is still in the family and leads a pampered life
now. Like so many people in the industry, the pursuit of parts for our cars led us into the restoration hobby. Cars in the early 80s were relatively common and could be purchased at reasonable prices. Most of these cars up to this time were daily drivers and many of them had been beaten on pretty hard. The ability to drive the car to work daily and the opportunity to thrash on it was the strong point of the Mopar muscle cars. At this point, many of the cars were starting to show the wear and tear to everyday use and the battle scars of Saturday night and Sunday afternoon shootouts with the other muscle cars. At this time, the Charger was still in very good shape in 1981 and I was in college. Shortly there after, the Charger was parked while I was in college. I then located a 69 GTX. Like the Charger, it was in very good shape. But like all of us, I had gotten the bug to make it even better. Not knowing what a survivor was, the GTX was pulled down. Fortunately, in today's world, it was just a freshening up. The car showed parking lot dents and dings, but no rust. The interior was still in great shape. So basically it was just a paint job and detail job. At this time, detailed suspensions and engines were not the norm for the Mopar crowd. Weekly, I would visit the local Chrysler dealership and order more parts for the GTX. Trim, emblems, seals, hoses etc were still available to a certain extent. The one item that was not available that I was looking to replace was the window felts or cat whiskers. Fortunately, I met Dave Mihalko at the Charlotte Auto Fair who was getting into making these felts for these cars. From the conversation and purchase, I started to provide samples of window felts and other weatherstripping to Dave and his business for the purpose of reproducing these items that were no longer available. Fast forward to 1987, the GTX and the Charger are hitting the car shows in the Southeast and racking up wins. People are asking where the weatherstripping was coming from. So from my initial search for items for my own car, people were now searching us out for the window felts and seals for their cars. From the initial offerings of one product for a variety of body styles and year models, the product offering has expanded to stocking well over 1500 items. Additionally, the business stocks parts offered by some of the most well known manufactures of parts for the Mopar product line. So please know that we appreciate the opportunity to provide to you quality products with the knowledge to support the sales and use of our product line.
