Around Ft.Worth the stuper shops guys were dumber than a box of rocks.When you wanted something they tried to tell you to get something else an their cars were slow.
That's because the idiots in upper management wouldn't listen to the people that actually were at the grass roots level on what needed to be stocked in the stores. When you have dragstrips and circle tracks all around, junky little hydraulic cams aren't going to cut it and people won't order stuff if they could get it at IIRC, hot rod harrys or other local shops. God help you if you ordered something that was out of the ordinary, "a week to ten days, possibly never" to arrive.
There were a few in the DFW that knew what was up. Finding them was an issue.
I worked there and ran Crane/Crower stuff in my cars because I got that stuff at WD, have it that day, picking up in Huntington Beach, CA. I couldn't get anything from Erson, ordered a big roller and after 10 month gave up on it. They, Erson, did make nice w2 rockers
