someotherguy
I'm Awesome
Awesome you were able to score those who would've ever thought they'd be hard to find?I got something in the mail today that I feel is a good fit for this thread.
A little backstory... For the past few years I've had two GMC 1500 door emblems saved in my Amazon wish list, GM part number 15551233, the ones with the tabs for use with body molding. The GMC lettering on the factory ones my Suburban has have faded from red to silver, so I wanted to have a nice set in case I ever manage to fix all the rust and paint the 'burb. Well one day recently they disappeared from my wish list. I did a little investigation and it turns out GM discontinued them. (Thanks to @MrPink for confirming that suspicion, BTW) So the logical choice would probably be to just delete them from the wish list entirely and not worry about it until I get the Suburban painted someday, right? Yeah, I didn't do that.
I started frantically Googling and discovered that there were two of them still listed on eBay. One in a parts warehouse in Pennsylvania, and the other somewhere in the UK. I ended up spending over double what it would've cost me to buy them when they were still available on Amazon, but the one from the UK just showed up today and they're both in great shape. Mission accomplished! Now these get to sit on a shelf here instead of somewhere else.
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Let me share a REALLY hard one to find with you: the "Intimidator" script for my truck's tailgate. Consider these trucks were made for ONE year, and less than 1,000 of them built. The tailgate script is slightly smaller than the script used on the doors, so it doesn't look crowded. (I think it was also used on the door/rocker moldings, or possibly the deck lid, on the Monte Carlo Intimidator SS edition.) So I figure out the part # and go hunting, along with all the other parts needed, before booking the truck for body and paint.
This single emblem listed for $300+.. and I found it for about half that. The dealer just threw it in a simple padded envelope, and USPS folded it in half
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It's warped, and broken right in between the "i" and "d" ...
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Would it be OK? Maybe? Maybe not? Then I thought about how much I was spending on body and paint and said NOPE.. got the dealer to replace the emblem, which was amazing to me that they even had another one to send. You can't find these AT ALL anymore.
Putting all the little stuff back on for the trip home. Headlights, park lights, taillights.. man she was shinin'! By the way, all the replacement emblems - the 3 "Intimidator" scripts, and 3 "SS" letter pairs, cost over $500 at the best prices I could find for them back in 2015.
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Richard