The Pink Panthers of Parts Finders

Andy and I have been scouring for parts to get mine back together. He found 2 good parts networks whose participating junkyards list their parts, sometimes with prices, mileage or an ABC rating code. What's neat about them, is if you leave your ZIP codes or Postal Codes off, you find out where the concentration of parts are.

Since some of the yards do include prices, you've got a ballpark value to budget with AND negotiate with the guy who you decide to deal with.

Interesting sites, very helpful info.

http://www.hollanderparts.com/home

http://car-part.com/index.htm

 

This is great! Thanks for these links. I'm itching to buy moar parts now

 

Manuals and Brochures

This one has a lot of different and hard to find info - like carburetor manuals, and other tech repair stuff, along with auto brochures and manuals. Some are PDF, some are pics or HTML text.

http://www.oldcarmanualproject.com/

BUT! The one view that'll save you time is their site view:
http://www.oldirononline.com/

Same site owners, just a different server, for all the volume.

The main site page shows you his range of info:
http://www.lov2xlr8.no/index.html

And the Brochure section is awesome. I use this one to find model year differences in options.:
http://www.lov2xlr8.no/broch1.html

And we can't forget stuff for those trivial pursuit moments:
http://www.coachbuilt.com/

http://www.businesshistory.com/industries.php

The auto sections are broken into 2 alphabetical ranges. They take a while to load (AKA Huge). Sometimes the patent info references can be found on the USPTO site (useful if you're going to make your own part or want an original finish recipe):
http://www.businesshistory.com/ind._autos.php

http://www.businesshistory.com/ind._autos2.php

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