Reply to "Vendor Tales"

I've had all these experiences at one time or another, I find that I get better products and prices by doing a little research, finding owners with good reusable parts or new that has been setting on the shelf for 30yrs or fabricating my own.
I have in Calif been in the vendors shops and can tell you they are doing very well and should be able to give us the best service and prices as any other collector car vendor but, I do not find this to be the case.
I have been face to face with them and dealt with the attitude of entitlement to fleece their customer and offer poor products at 500% markup.
I absolutly will not use them unless I cannot find what I need anywhere else, they do not have the right just because it is a Pantera to fleece you.

Of late I have spent time and money on my Pantera and feel good about it and I feel I have paid reasonably for what I have had to purchase and it was not at the Vendors!