Anybody know of any good ones in the MS/AL/LA area? I rode by a car lot today that had a couple of C3s and some C4's and C5's on it(along with a bunch of other cars). I had been hunting a piece for my door and decided to stop and ask if they might have one laying around. I walked up to the shop and inside the shop were a couple of restored 67's, a 53 and and a 58. I forgot what I was looking for and stood there just staring and a guy came out and asked me if he could help. I finally quit staring like a kid in a candy store and told him what I was looking for. He said they normally didnt sell parts but I told him what I wanted it for and it wasnt available aftermarket and he said he would help me out if he could. Told me to make myself at home and he would be right back, I told him to take his time, I could spend the day at his place. He went out back and came back with a different part and I told him that wasnt what I was looking for and he finally told me to come on back, he normally didnt let people in the back but since I was in uniform he trusted me. He told me he had problems with people breaking in and stripping parts of the cars. I went in the back with him expecting to go to a storeroom and we went out a back door that was surrounded by connex containers and the backs of other buildings (it was in a downtown block) and there was probaly 20 or 30 C3's in various stages of decay. I was like a kid in a candy store, several of them had trees growing thru the hoods and the trees werent little ones, they had been there awhile. Almost every year was represented back there, again, I could have spent the whole day, I wished I had brushed up on my numbers some, there were several steel bumpers back there that looked like they could be revived. I asked him if would sell any of them and he said he would have to check with his dad, he said his dad started the place back in the 50's and had been there since then. The inside of the shop was covered with vette stuff and models of every year were in a bookcase on the wall. His interest wasnt in the vette's as much as his father as several questions I asked him he finally said he didnt care much for them but his dad loved them. His dad wasnt there but I left my number and told him I would stop by again the next time I was coming thru. I had been by this place a hundred times but never guessed what was inside the shop and behind it. It was true Corvette collector's palace and I had given up on trying to find one locally. It was nice to be able to see a place in my backyard that had all this. No real point to the story other than to share it, and he did have the part I needed. I still dont know what its called. But I have it!

 

Thanks for sharing I enjoyed

 

So, where is it???