My point is still, when you buy a DeLorean specific part (lets say an ashtray) why not, in the same order, buy other parts (for instance a Bosch fuel pump) you need.A fuel pump is heavy and valuable..... the tax is a killer and the shipping is expensive.
Also, you can always put a lower value on the package so that no import tax will arise.YOU can? It's up to the sender to declare the value and most of the large vendors won't reduce the declared value. I got stung for £120 in tax on a $600 order from PJ Grady.
Also - the DOC UK has found many parts that are IDENTICAL to what the DeLorean uses. This list should be published, at least to the members of the DOC UK who has paid membership duesThere was a large cross-reference list printed in the club mag a couple of issues ago. The problem, as I see it, is simply the people who have discovered cross-refs passing the info on. Paul Salsbury is always quick to pass all info on on the list. I have not needed many parts - engine and transmission parts just come from Renault or Volvo through either the Diesel Centre or Braydon Motor Company respectively - both of whom are on my website. Specifics like the track rod ends were from a comment by Chris Parnham on the DOC list. Plus if you get stuck, a phone call to Dave Howarth or Mark Bourne (or Jason Monk, or Chris Parnham, or Stuart Pennington or ......) usually gets you the answer you're after. It's very difficult to compile a list of parts per-se, and to get to the "nub of the matter", creating a list of available parts, by implication, says that nothing else is available. The more people like Paul, Rich and myself restore cars, the more parts are re-appearing.
- you mention the part from a Triumph Herald, very interesting, but what about the rest of the identical parts)What do you need? Until someone needs something, we can't exactly just hand over a car and say "give us a cross reference for all these". Off the top of my head, we can get
I think its important to show the difference between IDENTICAL and cross-reference/will maybe work part.There's n awful lot in the list above which are not 100% identical to the OEM - the fuel pump for example is an exact match, but it's black. The door seals are exactly the same apart from an extra "ridge" which is invisible when on the car, the washer bottle pump has the connector on the side instead of the end. The ignition barrel has a different plug but the same pins, the CV boots are a perfect fit but are better made and a slightly different shape. These are just examples. Often the vendors are selling the "different" parts - often the differences are just caused by changes in the manufacturing process over the years.
Martin #1458