NOS Parts

[blinkey]

  So after buying my 69 Charger, I was wondering wheres the best place I can buy parts.  And where to get NOS parts,,,,thanks

[green69rt]

My guess is that you won't find much NOS around.  I've seen guys on here that are doing a high end restoration make the effort but those NOS parts are few and far between and they are VERY expensive!   A lot of our stuff is now reproduced so parts are available, just not much NOS.  If you insist on original MOPAR parts, ask around here or find a junk yard and strip parts off of a wreck (if you can find one, even usable parts off of wrecks are getting scarce.)  It's been 47 years since our cars were made and most of the old part stashes have been plundered.

[DixieRestoParts]

  So after buying my 69 Charger, I was wondering wheres the best place I can buy parts.  And where to get NOS parts,,,,thanks

Ebay is probably the easiest to keep an eye on for NOS parts. You'll start to notice some of the same sellers that sell stuff from time to time. There are some unscrupulous NOS parts sellers out there, so I'd always recommend you pay with a credit card so you have some protection. Or have the part in your hand and are looking at it before handing over any cash. Check out the car magazines for ads from the bigger NOS parts guys.  Good luck with your car!

Randy

[Ghoste]

You can't even be sure at swap meets where you can hold the part and examine it anymore.  Fraud doesn't just exist in fender tags and rebodies.

[blinkey]

   Right now Im looking for small stuff like carb springs and 440 valve cover bolts and so on,,, they could also be good used original parts, I also think I need a parts book with part #s

[Ghoste]

Should be able to find those easily enough.  You can download a copy of the parts book at mymopar.com

[Mike DC]

       
   
Restoring Mopars isn't really a NOS business these days.  The supply is about gone.  What's left is generally priced too high to be worth it for major pieces. 

These days it's reproduction & decent used stuff. 

Most of the big sheetmetal pieces are very expensive to create the tooling (the original muscle-era tooling didn't survive Chrysler's bankruptcy in the early 1980s).  So often it is just one manufacturer making a reproduction part, and it's getting resold through many different sources.


Sheetmetal:  AMD makes the most stuff and it's usually the best.  That's the manufacturer.  They aren't guaranteed to be the cheapest place to get it though.   

Year One:  This company is a good source to figure out what is available and what isn't.  They are easy to deal with in general.  But their shipping charges are basically a con game.  You don't know their whole price until you know the shipping bill. 

 

[DixieRestoParts]

You can't even be sure at swap meets where you can hold the part and examine it anymore.  Fraud doesn't just exist in fender tags and rebodies.

True, I have seen some repo item's that certain people try to make look like NOS. 

[BrianShaughnessy]

  There's a lot of fraud out there in NOSland waiting for a sucker...  Your definition of NOS isn't always somebody elses.   

[resq302]

So you mean I could have a small fortune in my bins of the NOS parts I've accumulated over the years?   

[ht4spd307]

So you mean I could have a small fortune in my bins of the NOS parts I've accumulated over the years?   

na that new old stock stuff is worthless so you better send it over here so i can dump it for you

[maxwellwedge]

  Right now Im looking for small stuff like carb springs and 440 valve cover bolts and so on,,, they could also be good used original parts, I also think I need a parts book with part #s

Frank Badalson has a lot of good original and good reproduction stuff that looks and works correctly.

http://www.rogergibsonautorestoration.com/index.htm

[resq302]

So you mean I could have a small fortune in my bins of the NOS parts I've accumulated over the years?   

na that new old stock stuff is worthless so you better send it over here so i can dump it for you