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Another Happy Customer!

I recently ordered a whole new exhaust system, including Y pipe, from you.

Installation was a breeze since everything fit perfectly and mated with the original hangers.

You have a happy customer!

Marvin in Michigan

 

Upcoming Events
If you would like your event featured here, e-mail us with details.

27th Annual MDA Car Show
Roanoke, VA
3/2/2007
e-mail

Hillbilly Hotrodders Car Event
Denver, NC
3/3/2007
e-mail

2nd Annual East Texas Spring Showdown Car Show
Marshall,TX
3/3/2007
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Citrus County Cruisers Car Show
Lecanto, FL
3/4/2007
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St. Patrick's Day Car Show
Belton, TX
3/17/2007
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Haskell FD Car Show
Haskell, TX
3/17/2007
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Carolina Motor Madness
Fortmill, SC
3/24/2007
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DynoMax Cat Back Exhaust System Kits

DynoMax

 

Looking for sporty sound and unrestricted exhaust flow without fabrication, cutting, and welding? DynoMax Cat Back kits are made for you! DynoMax Cat Back kits are direct bolt on systems that do not require cutting or additional fabrication. Hangers, gaskets, clamps...all the necessary hardware is included.

DynoMax covers domestic and import, early and late model cars and trucks. Whether you’re towing, four-wheeling, or commuting to work, DynoMax brings maximum flow to your vehicle.

 

 

SPI Fuel Tanks...Why Pay More Somewhere Else?

Spectra Premium

In the market for a fuel tank for your muscle car? RockAuto just dropped the price on fuel tanks from Spectra Premium. Why pay more somewhere else?

Take a look at this price comparison:

1972 Plymouth Road Runner Fuel Tank
Parts Store Part Brand Price
RockAuto Spectra Premium $157.79
JC Whitney
(carparts.com)
Spectra Premium $239.99
Checker, Kragen,
& Advance
(partsamerica.com)
Spectra Premium $394.44
NAPA NAPA $454.49
AutoZone Spectra Premium $473.99
(as of 2/8/2007) RockAuto price is regular price, NOT a special sale price created for this comparison.

You will find fuel tanks in the "Fuel/Air" category in the RockAuto catalog.

 

 

New Catalog Feature

RockAuto Catalog

How can I go back to the part I was looking at before?

Easy...just click on the disc Save My Place in the catalog and a window will appear that will let you save your place. You can then easily go right back to where you left off next time you shop.

Save My Place

 

 

Expanded Service for International Customers

FedEx

Lower Fed Ex International Rates:
If you have been holding off on ordering parts because of high international shipping rates...now is your time to place that order! RockAuto has dramatically reduced our Fed Ex International shipping rates!

 

 

Tip: Take a Close Look at the Interior Before You Buy...

Pit Stop Guy

When shopping for a neat old car to restore it is easy to fall in love at first sight and miss big problems that might have helped negotiate a more appropriate price or meant not buying the car at all. I discovered it is necessary to do more than take a close look at the engine, transmission, body and other systems. Take a very close look at that interior too!

I bought a 1967 Lincoln with what looked like a nearly immaculate leather interior. The car had sat in the garage for more than ten years. The elderly owner’s son had the car professionally cleaned inside and out to get it ready for sale so I thought nothing about the strong lemony car wash scent inside the car. There was a small hole in the headliner that I guessed was an old cigarette burn. The cigar lighter in the dash did not work and the climate control system was not fully functional, but those appeared to be unrelated and relatively easy problems to fix.

A few days after I got the car home it started smelling less lemony and more like a gerbil cage. The car’s interior had been infested with mice. Mice had chewed the “cigarette hole” in the headliner (cigarette ash usually falls down not up!). A fried mouse body was across the electrical terminals on the back of the cigar lighter. Mice had pulled the quilting out of the underside of the rear seat upholstery and built a big nest. They also had set up home in the ventilation system. It was heartbreaking to realize the beautiful leather interior, the carpet, the headliner, and everything behind the dash smelled like dead mice and droppings.

So add these steps to the pre-buy inspection list: Look in the interior for odd little holes. Pull out the rear seat cushion. Start worrying if the car interior has just been doused with air freshener. Try sniffing inside the trunk or smell a piece of the interior, like a seat cushion, some distance away from the car. Take a skeptical friend or spouse along and have her look over the car too. If a dog (or cat) is handy, see if it is unusually interested in sniffing the interior. Test drive the car with the heat on (urine soaked carpet smells extra bad when it is warmed up).

I eventually got the Lincoln to the point that other people thought it smelled fine. Unfortunately, I was sure there was occasionally still a faint musty odor on my clothes after driving the car. I ended up selling it at auction to avoid going batty (mousy?). Mouse damage is repairable, but know about it beforehand and that it will cost $100 to replace the carpet, 24 hours to disassemble the interior down to the metal, etc.

Tom Taylor,
RockAuto.com

 

 

1973 Pontiac Grandville
1973 Grandville

This 1973 Grandville was purchased by me in May of 2005. It came from Pennsylvania and needed some work. Only 85,000 miles on the clock, this car has a 455ci 250 HP with power seats, sport package, power windows, power locks, remote trunk release, and air conditioning (yes it works!).

I used RockAuto parts on this restoration. Alternator, Air intake hose, pre heater hose...next will be the power steering pump and hoses, and u-joints. Your prices are the best and the shipping is FAST!

Brian

 

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