aa vs. rd, sheet metal Options

[surfbus66]

I notice a price difference for replacement sheet metal parts between AA and Restoration Design. Is there a quality difference or is it expensive to ship to US from Canada? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)

[dr914@autoatlanta.com]

The parts are really all the same. It is a long and involved story, basically that Bill at Lansing Steel totally ripped Automobile Atlanta off for over $100,000 in tooling after he got out of jail. (found out later that he too ripped off P.B. Tweeks for the floor pans!) Every 914 part he sold back then except for the floor pans were both thought up and designed by me, knowing what was needed out there to repair our 914s.
As I had a gentleman's agreement with him, there was only a few notations about me owning the tooling so I could only recover some of it. He then went into the retail business under the name Restoration Design selling all of my exclusive 914 parts and leaving me flat. I ended up remaking all of the tooling as well as new tools with Tim at K&K, the same guy Stoddard's uses. Tim is a stellar guy and does a great job.
Finally along comes Mike from Canada who brilliantly figures out a way to buy Bill the crook out and makes Restoration Design again a legitimate business giving good customer service and great value.
Since I already had all of the tooling remade long before Mike bought out the crook, we are now both making many of the same parts, like the engine shelves and the inner rocker panels, and we buy from each other the parts we do not make . In the truest spirit of cooperation we will not make any more 914 parts without consulting each other as it would be a waste of time and money in this small market.
It still burns me however every time I have to buy my exclusively designed rocker clamshells from Mike knowing the hundreds of hours I invested in designing them fitting them installing them and actually cutting up 914s to send Bill the longitudinal sections!
Buy from Mike buy from us all with confidence knowing that you will get a great product at a great price and receive prompt delivery!!!!!!

I notice a price difference for replacement sheet metal parts between AA and Restoration Design. Is there a quality difference or is it expensive to ship to US from Canada? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)