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Mark Osterman
- Posts: 1014
- Joined: Mon Jan 07, 2019 10:18 pm
- First Name: Mark
- Last Name: Osterman
- * REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: 1923 runabout
- Location: Rochester, NY
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by Mark Osterman » Mon Jan 27, 2020 12:17 pm
In my quest to find a decent front fender I finally located one in North Carolina thanks to a T owner who saw my posts on Facebook. We looked into UPS for shipping but it was $260. Also looked at Greyhound Bus which was much better at $80 but dropped it off in Buffalo an hour away.
The shipper then found a friend who was traveling north through Syracuse, still a drive from Rochester, but the price was right. But they needed a place to drop it off any time of day. So I called the local Ford dealership in Syracuse and asked the manager of the parts department if they had a sense of humor. They agreed to take the fender and hold it for me until I can get there. Might make a nice local human interest news story ... the part that took 96 years to arrive!
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Scott_Conger
- Posts: 6523
- Joined: Sun Jan 06, 2019 11:18 am
- First Name: Scott
- Last Name: Conger
- * REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: 1919
- Location: not near anywhere, WY
- Board Member Since: 2005
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by Scott_Conger » Mon Jan 27, 2020 12:33 pm
What a great story!
If the dealer has as good business sense as he does humor, he would indeed call local news for a puff piece.
Scott Conger
Tyranny under the guise of law is still Tyranny
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Obsolete carburetor parts manufactured
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perry kete
- Posts: 1629
- Joined: Sun Jan 06, 2019 11:46 am
- First Name: Dennis
- Last Name: Seth
- * REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: 1922 Coupe 1927 Touring
- Location: Jefferson Ohio
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by perry kete » Mon Jan 27, 2020 2:14 pm
I would like to see the look on other customers faces when you walk into the parts department and ask for a Model T Ford fender and the parts clerk pulls it out and hands it to you!
1922 Coupe & 1927 Touring
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sweet23
- Posts: 516
- Joined: Sun Jan 06, 2019 1:19 pm
- First Name: Darryl
- Last Name: Bobzin
- * REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: 2, '25 T Runabouts, '14 Touring
- Location: Kannapolis,NC
- Board Member Since: 2016
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by sweet23 » Mon Jan 27, 2020 8:02 pm
There always seems to be a way to get old car parts delivered. Last spring I bought a fender from a man in Iowa. Shipping to North Carolina was just to pricey. He talked to some people he knew, and they had a son in college in NC. As luck would have it, he had to go home to Iowa to a wedding just a couple months after I made the deal for the fender. He was happy to do some delivery work to make a couple bucks. I ended meeting him just an hours drive from my home to get the fender from him.
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Sparknwire
- Posts: 97
- Joined: Sun Jan 06, 2019 3:01 pm
- First Name: RJ
- Last Name: Lucyszyn
- * REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: 1913 Speedster
- Location: Walworth, NY
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by Sparknwire » Tue Jan 28, 2020 5:09 pm
I use Fastenal store to store shipping I shipped A 1952 Lincoln tranny,radiator, box of misc motor parts etc from Rochester NY to Columbus Ohio for $150 all you have to do is bring it to the store and they ship it for you It all has to fit into a pallet no overhangs
