Thread: would like good advise on 28 model a build

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“......Mike had the good info on the GM columns that most folks have used in the past. Unfortunately many of these have been well picked over and the better ones gone....”

Guilty as charged Dave

I often times forget that what my reality in AZ is, is not the same as other parts of the country. Where we don’t have the rust issues and there are still a few of the smaller mom and pop wrecking yards around, life is a bit easier finding parts for me than it would be elsewhere.

As an example, I’ve been working on a customer’s 1966 Fairlane the last couple of months. Last week it was getting the wipers going. The problem was the switch which is not available new or aftermarket. A 15 minute trip to the local wrecking yard and I had 3 parts cars to choose from.

As far as the steering columns I mentioned, I can go back to the same yard (or hit one of the bigger swap meets here) and find good examples any of them, so I sometimes take for granted that other people can do the same.

A couple of years ago I went back to the mid-west and while I was back there I decided to see if any of the local yards had anything I could use on my 83 El Camino project (basically anything from a 78-88 G Body). I got a variation of the same answer from every place I checked......... “we haven’t had any of those in here in 10-15 years”.