Fire destroys Metro Parts Company

[Spike]

Been on the phone with Joel (owner of Metro) the last couple of days and while he was on vacation the Metro business burned down. This is the result of a very unfortunate incident. Needless to say the damage is to hard to put into a dollar figure. Thousands of NOS antennas- gone. Add to it the custom tooling that was in house and the raw material on hand. He had a collection of sheetmetal ranging from hoods to fenders that he used to test fit moldings on that were destroyed.
His goal is to have some part of the business up and running within the next six months to a year.
Here are some pics..

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[adauto]

It's hard enough being in business without stuff like that happening... 

[marangen]

That sucks!

Give him my regards if you speak to him! I'm a customer from Sweden. Bought the rocker moldings (fot 68 Charger) from him!

D-mn do I feel sorry for him!

Martin

[tan top]

It's hard enough being in business without stuff like that happening... 

                    thats a sad sight , i have metro weather stripes  on my 69 , good products .  hope he gets  his shop  sorted out & back up & running soon

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

Man that really does hurt to look at.  I've purchased my grill moldings & rocker moldings from them as well.
Hopefully they were insured for the replaceable stuff......sad to see those antennas wasted

[dodgecharger-fan]

Damn! Send him my regards.

I was seconds away from buying an antenna from him at MOPARFest when my daughter dragged me away to look at something else.
I was just looking at their ad in a magazine and thinking about the grille moldings, too..

I hope he gets things sorted out and all the best comes his way.

[Troy]

Wow! That's horrible.  I hope things are up and running again quickly.

Troy

[TruckDriver]

I never heard of them, but it still sucks never the less

[PocketThunder]

Metro Parts, as the one in Coon Rapids, MN?

[Spike]

Douglas, Georgia.

[Ghoste]

Words can't even do justice to how discouraging that must be.  I bought an antenna from them a few years back and they were good folks to deal with.  I hope he's back on his feet quickly.

[Charger_Fan]

I think it was a conspiracy from the Chebby guys.


That really sucks, especially because of the irreplaceable original parts that were lost. I hope his insurance treats him right.

[Chatt69chgr]

I believe that Metro Parts was the only place making the repop rocker moulding for 68-70 B-Bodys.  Don't know if their stock/production jigs were destroyed in the fire.  But found out that Year One has had the mouldings+clips sets on backorder since May.  But they did have 10 mouldings w/o the clips.  9 now since I ordered and received one.  They list the clips separately but said that they are sourced from another company.  The clips are on backorder too but they said they would have no trouble getting them.  I hope thats the case since I have the clips backordered.   

[RJS]

Why don't you just call Tom Race at R/T specialties for your clips?

[Chatt69chgr]

Thanks RJS.  I looked at the RT Specialties website and note that they have them.  Too late now for me as I have already processed the order via Year One.  Will cost me about $15 more it looks like.  If Y1 doesn't come thru, good to know about another source. 

[gtx6970]

Thanks RJS.  I looked at the RT Specialties website and note that they have them.  Too late now for me as I have already processed the order via Year One.  Will cost me about $15 more it looks like.  If Y1 doesn't come thru, good to know about another source. 

Call Yearone  and cancel, They're just gonna call Tom at R/T  to get them

[pettyfan43]

MAN I hate to see that I JUST got the Roof rail and trunk weatherstrips for my 66 From them.