[William]

Vettefest '85: the good 'ol days!!

If the motoring public didn't know then they do now: Vendors got to be pretty good friends. This led to a certain amount of parts/customer/info sharing. Problem solving was also an issue. Maybe Stevie remembers who did this; I do not. But it is kind of funny.

In those days there were a lot of parts still available from GM and all of us had them on display, usually in the original packaging. Everyone knew someone that worked for a dealer so certain people would walk around with a notebook recording part numbers off your inventory. One vendor really tired of this and came up with a plan. He went throught the P & A price book and came up with a couple dozen non-returnable part numbers with huge prices. He then had labels printed with these numbers and pasted them on all his packaging. Some poor schmuck trying to save a few bucks on a rear view mirror would unwittingly order something really miserable like a school bus frame.

"That will teach 'em" said the vendor.

Don't know if anything like that ever happened but GMPD did change its ordering policy around that time.