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Couldn't hurt, just need to know the right guy to aim the calls, emails, or letters to.I wonder if their minds might be changed with receipt of numerous calls and letters?
It is not really up our alley so to say.
Moss and VB were competitors on the british leyland market, likley Moss was really only interested in the market for those parts.If they are not going to sell them on line, why did they buy out VB?
From a reliable source they've tried to buy the VB parts, they're actually only interested in a few of the "good" thingsI wonder if Rick or Curt have been offered the sunbeam specific items?
Unfortunately, that SOMETHING includes landfills and recyclers. Both are equally bad news as their "product" flows are one way only.Aside from Moss Motors strategy, I was always curious as to what Victoria British had as a strategy for Sunbeam parts. I always found it odd that they would have some parts that CS or SS did not have, but their selection of parts was getting thinner over the years. So while some parts like brake parts that were back-ordered would come back into stock... letting you know they were not just working off their inventory on some items, other stuff just disappeared... like splined hubs and rear shocks for example. If you want to have some fun, dig out an old VB catalog and line it up next to the latest catalog and see how many more parts are "grayed out". Not sure which is more depressing... having increasingly grayed out diagrams or having a diagram of parts with fewer and fewer part numbers shown next to it as is the case with SS.
If Moss got the whole shebang from VB, then one would think SOMETHING has to happen to the Sunbeam stuff they acquired.
Rick