Another NCRS Internet Basher
 

I am fed up with internet bashers that exaggerate and twist their story to damage my company. SoCalErv has done just that. If we had taken his money and then denied him a refund, he might have some complaint. But we refused to sell him a part under his terms.

Ervin C Myers is his name on the NCRS (Nazi Corvette Restorer Society) chat room. And that's where he bashed my business until I found this additional Corvette Forum message. I have regularly been bashed by NCRS members because I won't provide a third party endorsement for their judging. Whenever you clearly state in advance that you will not do something, and then you do exactly what you stated - these internet bashers appear on the chat room to tell their horrific tale of woe.

For over a decade I have clearly and publically decared in many thousands of pulp catalogs as well on the web that we do not guarantee any parts for any NCRS purpose.
  
   
  I wrote the following answer to basher Ervin C Myers on the NCRS however few were able to read my reply. The CF also locked it and I never had the opportunity to respond. I firmly believe that I have the right to face and identify any accuser. This is the basis of the 6th Amendment.  
     
 

Mr Ervyn Myers:

Nobody was rude to you in any manner, at any time and I don't think I have ever had the pleasure of talking with you before and so briefly. That is simply a fabrication and an exaggeration to conceal your motive: "I'll screw Dr Rebuild" because he would not examine at a lens for me - that the NCRS says should be blah, blah, blah. That is the sum total. I politely said I would not check the writing on any lens. You became enraged and ranted about how much you had spent. I never said you had to buy the lens to exam it and suggested that your concerns were such that it was just much better to find a vintage old original part.

Frankly it matters not what phone line you called, the answer would have been the same if it were asked on two tin cans with a string between them. I simply advised you to seek original parts, as I advise all who are compelled to stringently follow the NCRS "correctness" guidelines. Why is it such an egregious suggestion to go buy an original part if you are so enamored with originality and correctness?

Furthermore, I graciously wished you have a "great day" after you were telling me to "p*ss off" and how you had "spent over 2,000 dollars" (actually another exaggeration that is not even close - $1123.95 exclusive of shipping). But your worth is not measured here by the value of your wallet, but by the merit of your veracity. I believe in being frank and honest and tell the truth whether it makes for a sale or not. I should have, but didn't even hang up on you and you had the gall to curse at me! I know of no dollar threshold that entitles you that right.

We offer no third party endorsement, never did; were the first vendor to clearly state so that over a decade ago and do not hide this fact from anyone. If others state that our particular part is correct, I do not offer that endorsement to make any further sale. I have come to loathe the term correct and correctness just as I have come to loathe those who act out and curse about a tail lamp lens while swaggering around the internet to forewarn of their terror incident.

We don't sell any tail lamp lens with any specified particular writing. They all fit perfectly, all function perfectly and all pass national highway safety and traffic laws as well as being identified as to origin. If you want some obscure marking that some GM lenses had and some GM don't and some repro do and some repro don't, I honestly just don't follow those ever increasing facets of correctness for a 1969 back up lens. Be happy, just get an original part and all that stress and tension is solved.

In 30 years of sorting out the real sales from the real connoisseurs, I feel it's best to avoid a likely return. A return is simply a negative sale that simply requires every sale process, be run in again reverse and at no value. It's not like a defective part that is generally replaced with another. If it's not correct, it's simply a negative sale as there is no replacement sale made. If I had the luxury of a volunteer staff I might entertain that business model. I would like the luxury of selling the 3rd, 4th and 5th edition of a $35-50 guide that is described as a living document because it's not an exactly accurate portrayal of what it portends to represents. That almost sounds like repro. I wonder how many of them have been returned for refund for correctness.

December 1979 when we first made repro parts, we made them much better than GM ever did. I was first to reproduce 1963 only muffler hangers. We Cadmium plated the steel parts to prevent corrosion; GM did not. We used a Beryllium Copper alloy ground plate that almost completely resisted fatigue cracking, instead of the brittle, almost universally broken Copper ground plates on GM and the other later repro 63 muffler hangers. When we made 1961-1962 exhaust hangers, we used a mil-spec plater and painter (Reliable Plating & Polishing, Bishop Ave, Bpt, CT) to coat them with the same baked on paint finish they used on the Sikorsky military helicopter parts they also finished. They also did our plating and for Sturm Ruger and other quality manufacturers as well. We made stainless french lock and other parts that are not like original. These were more durable, long lasting and particularly more expensive to make. They were not NCRS correct and frankly that parameter was not our benchmark. Other parts we have made in original tools, with original sources and even then they have not always been correct. If you seek NCRS approved parts, always buy an original part.

GC

  
 

I googled this basher. If I lived in these confines I'd be narrow minded also. Scale=100ft

  
 

In all fairness, here is my google shot. Lighten up. Below is where I do it. Scale=100ft
  
 

 
 

Chill out. There is more to life that correctness. Driving a Corvette is much more fun instead of chasing a matrix of points administered by balding boomers in colored hats, knee pads and clip boards telling you about the great cars, great fun while you do on a wild goose chase for some un-describable unknown font variants that was only used in production when Jupiter was in the Seventh House of Uranus.
  
 

 

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