RE: vendors

["Darryl Tinnerstet" <darryl@xxxx>]

>>I do not consider Marty, Darryl or any other owner not solely in the parts business to be a "vendor".<< 

Excuse me? I have been selling new and used DeLorean parts worldwide for over 16 years, even before there was a "DMC Houston". But I live in a community of 1500, many miles from the next DeLorean, and trying to run a full-time exclusively DeLorean repair shop is not very feasible. I wish it was, but frankly I'd rather be here, doing mail order, than living in LA, Houston, or even Seattle. I manufacture and sell parts no one else has, like door opener kits, waterpump pulleys, braided stainless speedo cables, and engine cover support slides. How do you figure that makes me not a vendor? How many other "vendors" spent their most recent Sunday installing their products, in this case window motors and a new window, FOR FREE??? Where do you get off making a statement like that?

>>Darryl's door system is a good design.... My system costs less because it has a lower parts count (no actuator mounting brackets for example)<<

You know, its comments like that from someone who next admits "Although I have never seen one..." that just frost my cookies. Since these comments were unsigned I don't know who made them, but it appears to be one more case of someone making negative comments about a product they have never even seen, much less purchased. Not to be too picky, but my remote door system does NOT use actuator mounting brackets. If you had purchased one you would know that the actuators require only the drilling of two small holes, which are covered by the upper door panel. Its that simplicity of design and function which has made it unique for over 10 years now. That, and the fact that no one else sells such a kit, last I heard.

But then I'm not really a vendor, so what do I know.

Darryl Tinnerstet
Specialty Automotive
McCleary, WA
www.delorean-parts.com



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