[Steve Drueck]

Billy they didn't stay in business, John would ask prices like $700 for a 67 plain console, back when they were worth $100, then keep accumulating stuff so deep it would get trashed. They were on Lemon ST in Orange CA. People would drive in rust free cars and sell them for a couple hundred dollars. Tow trucks would bring Camaros in on the hook. They got way behind on the money with the landlord (allegedly) and finally there was a liquidation auction where a lot of stuff got sold for cheap. Most of the cars and good stuff went to Dan Ruth in Perris before it went down, and he got posession of most of the cars and parts he moved up there eventually through another legal deal (allegedly) When John called me he was still asking heaps of money so it wasn't worth moving it all east. This was all many years ago. Last time I saw Dan Ruth he was tricking out Hummers. He sold most of the Camaro stuff. Dan's a good guy always tinkering with something. Z & Z had a lot of rare cool stuff, too bad it ended that way. Unfortunately there was a long string of customers over the years that were unhappy with the parts they received for the price they paid. I guess if they kept them until today, the prices would have caught up by now! I saw John a while ago at Pomona, he still sets up far down on Chevy row from us now and them. Dougie was very cheap on available parts, but you always told me they were "stolen" , say it ain't so! Maybe having no kids to feed and inheriting a GM store kept the overhead down a bit too! And those $30 rosewood wheels, and $100 12 bolt posi rears. well, as you say, all true. aaahhh the good ole' days!