Xander Wildeisen

Another thing, Hold the vent frames up to the ones on your truck. Make sure that they have not been "sprung" (spread apart). It really sucks when setting the vent glass, and the frame wants to keep pulling away from the glass/rubber setting tape, because it has been spread apart. Tracing out the shape of the pieces on cardboard before sending them out can help as a pattern. Some times you have to re-shape them, and hope you do not crack the chrome. All the fun things we get to deal with putting cars/trucks together. One little trick you can use to avoid problems with wing window frames, is to get rid of them.

There has been talk on another post about paint, chrome is another tough one. We all know that the only way to fix the pits, is to fill them in and prep the surface. Again, and again, and again. What bothers me about some of this stuff. If you plate a bumper and it looks bad, you redo it. Some of these pot metal parts are hard to find. And once you lose the detail in some of these pieces, it is just a paper weight. The hood ornament on your truck has a lot of fine line details on the side. I have never seen one of those re-plated that has not lost the detail in it. Another tough job where skill and quality shows. A restored/custom car with top notch bright work really stands out.

Interesting view of the word passion. I see passion as a good thing. It helps create and inspire.

Nobody lives long enough to restore all of that, Keep his contact info, and pass it along. Lots of good parts. When every one else was crushing stuff, he held on to save the stuff. Yards like this are fading in this country.

Forget get about plastic parts around here, the sun kills them fast. Hope the pictures will help some people find the parts/car they might need for their projects. Walking the yard is like a big swap meet, just one vendor.

It does not matter how nice they are, on the road is on the road.

I hope this can give every one a good general over view of the parts Jim has out there. There is a lot more that I did not take pictures of. If you are looking for some parts, please give Jim a call. 1-208-587-3743

I went out to a local salvage yard to get some parts, and took a bunch of pictures that I will post for you guys/gals to see. The yard is called Vintage Automotive, The owners name is Jim Hines. The yard is full of 1930-1960 cars and trucks, lots of great parts, rust is not a problem around here. If you are looking for any thing give him a call. He has a ton of N.O.S. parts in the buildings. And he is very knowledgeable and knows what is out there. 1-208-587-3743 http://www.jimsvintageautomotive.com/

You have a great looking truck, drive and enjoy it. They get a lot of looks by people.

I agree Matt, I have had to deal with people and customers causing problems. And I have never passed any charge over to the customer. There are a lot people that use other means to deal with competition, rather then buckle down and get the job done. It hurts us all. The people who are willing to work hard and do a good job, can be shut down by other people, and it is wrong. The people who work hard and do a good job, should rise to the top. I have said it before on this forum, and I will say it again. If the biggest problem this "hobby/industry" faces. Is the young people not wanting to get involved. May be some of the things that are done should be looked at, and talked about. Honesty can only help, if honesty is wanted.

I am going to throw some thing out there. And I am not saying that it might be in play here, just some thing to think about. There are a lot of shady things that small shops have to deal with. (69 GTO read the topic restoring cars for a living) If you have a shop that does a good job, and other people/shops want to cause them problems. One way that they can do it, is to cause problems from inside the shop. If you have a bad apple in your company, that person can cause a lot of problems. Delays in getting stuff done and cost over runs. And then that spills over on to the shop/owner. He or she gets hit with a bad rap, over charges customers,long time frame to finish the job, and so on. Again, I am not saying that this is going on. Just saying that some things like that go on. And a customer can get wrapped up in the middle of it. We all like to think that it is a fair playing field out there, but it is not. I think that this post is a good one, and others like it should be posted as well. A real honest conversation must be had from time to time about things, in order to keep the bad from getting to far out in front of the good. This is a wonderful job to have, restoring/building cars. You get to create, build,restore, improve,show and drive your finished product. A lot of pride goes into fixing up cars, so self policing and helping people out who do the same thing helps us all. Competition is a good thing, but dirty tricks behind the scene hurts us all. Maybe the shop is dealing with other factors we do not know about.

Worst paint job I have ever seen on a factory car, was a black H3. If you talk to guys that work in body shops, they will tell you the hardest part in the re-painting is matching the OEM finish on some of these cars. If you are a good painter, and want to do a good job/repair. It is hard to have to lay down a bad paint job just to match what is there.