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I did the whole deal by phone, gave them a CC number and waited. Wasn't long and I had a pair of volare rocker panels here. I was PISSED when they got here, they were rustier than what I was wanting to replace.
I called back and complained, asking how they could sleep at night selling such crap. They replied that they don't remember me asking for pix of the parts I was possibly looking to buy, and being all the ads they ran and brags about "clean rust free parts" from them, and mentions in magazine stories about featured cars where the owners had mentioned they got these parts here and those parts there with no mention of problems, I trusted they would be upstanding, fair business people who "wouldn't sell anything they wouldn't put on their own car" (something they had claimed on the phone)
but I was way wrong. I ended up sending them back and ended up losing a bunch, don't think my refund was much l, having had to pay for return shipping. So I'd paid shipping both ways just to look at them and call them junk.
I then bought a pair of of ebay out of (I think it was) California, that were everything I expected out of the ones that I got from the big name mopar
junkyard in the South.
For way less money to boot.
These types of forums seemed "bigger" back then before Fakebook took over a lot of the old car enthusiast info that's available (I refuse to do Fakebook, sorry)
But anyway around that time I ran across someone on a forum in NW Ohio that had a couple of F bodies he was working on and he had one he had gotten for parts, and invited me out to get what I could off of it that was left after he got what he wanted off of it, and cheap. Only thing was his wife gave him "a week" to bring it home, get off it what he needed and get rid of it. So I drove out early one morning,/toolbox, sawzall, and extension cord in the back of my truck, spent a few hours out there unbolting a few things and sawing a bunch more off of it, and made it home the same day just as it was getting dark.
Thing was this car overall was in better shape than those rotten swiss cheese rockers that I'd paid all that money for out of Texas.... I still the rockers off of that car in the attic, and the lower rear quarters too... Mine is still a work in progress.
