Don't do it! Ebay parts........

[Hawklover]

So IMHO if one needs parts for his Stude, always better to deal with a person who actually has been dealing with Studes for years and knows what up!.......Case in point...........Studebaker Avanti rear wheel cylinders. If one scans all the rear cyl listings on Ebay you will be amazed how wrong they all are...Not one showed the correct 3/4 inch bore..........This is not even about being frugal, who in the H needs the stress and aggravation getting all the parts off the car and ready to put new ones on, and then WHAM.......incorrect parts:-(

[rockne10]

I will ALWAYS scan our known vendors before turning to eBay, or worse yet, Facebook, unless the person there is on our list. Too many people there have been robbed by folks we never heard of.

[StudeRich]

Sadly, Even the reputable Parts Stores have BAD info transcribed incorrectly from Old Paper Books to Computers and or Websites.

The Brake Parts ARE the worst, especially Wheel Cylinders and Shoes, even though Studebaker's are SO simple.
For 1954 to 1966 Cars, there are: Sixes, Eights and Drum and Disc. that's only THREE Types for TWELVE Years!

They usually totally miss the Differences between: Drum Brakes and Disc. Brakes, a Champion and a Commander, a Six vs a V8, so they list all KINDS of Parts like they do on eBay and Amazon Stores that: "Fit Your 19XX Studebaker", NOT!

Studebaker Vendors KNOW their stuff, and Some of us actually USE it !

[skyway]

Sometimes even the books were wrong! Back in the early 90’s I went to one of the big chains (it was Sunday and my independent guy was closed) & bought front brake shoes for my ‘74 Duster. Got into the job & found the new shoes were 1/2” too narrow. Returned them and took that story to my usual guy on Monday.
He smiled, handed me the right shoes, gave me his home phone for any future “Sunday jobs”, and showed me that the “mistake”
was printed in his book too.

[unclemiltie]

There are some of us whom are small Studebaker parts vendors that prefer to sell our parts on EBay

You will even see several of our larger vendors selling on EBay

ebay apparently likes to cater to their larger sellers whom list 1000 listings for each part they have. I just exclude those vendors in my search

i will always buy my parts from a Studebaker vendor instead of the chain parts stores whose employees think that Studebaker cars were made elsewhere

the old saying still applies. -you get what you pay for—

we are very fortunate in the Studebaker world to have vendors and wholesalers whom invest large sums of their money to have parts we need reproduced. Do you think these chains would reproduced our gas tanks like Stephen Allen did?

THANKS for SUPPORTING our VENDORS

[Hawklover]

Yes!.......now lets re-produce the Avanti surge tank!! :-)

[Corbinstein0]

I'd rather have Steel C Cab Truck fenders repopped.

[PackardV8]

Warning - rant follows.

There's a small circle of hell awaiting the eBay programmer who came up with "Fits: Studebaker" for any part search.

Those of us who buy lots of parts regularly have learned eBay and the search-engine-whores Google, et al, sell our searches to the highest bidder. Ebay, Google, Bing, whatever, will put those who pay the most at the top of any search. That would be criminal, in and of itself, but Walmart, Amazon, Summit, Jegs, also pay to have any search to put them at the top of the list. They know they don't have that part, have never had that part and never will have that part, but all they want is for the searcher to click on their link; who knows, maybe he'll buy something else.

Then, once one learns to dodge that big lie, there are the search aggregation sites which do the same thing but worse. They have software which snags your search and then tries to sell it to the big guys, effectively wasting twice as much of your search time.

Bottom line - they know they're lying, know they're wasting our time, but scheme to do it ever more effectively.

jack vines

[StudeRich]

I could not have said that ANY better Jack, absolutely True.

You know SOMEBODY gets paid just for you clicking on something!
Whomever said that MONEY is the Root of ALL Evil, was Right ON!

[64LarkLover]

I've bought a fair number of parts from eBay but have tried to follow a few rules. Is the item listed as NOS where there's an original part number, or is it from a seller who has a good handle on a number of Studebaker parts? Over the years I've squirreled away a number of fuel pumps, alternators, water pumps, and what have you to keep my 64 and 65 sedans on the road. Unfortunately, it's buyer beware without due diligence.

[GrumpyOne]

I recently came across a listing for a set of gauges on eBay that looked tempting for a possible future project. The seller was not sure what years they fit and I sent him a personal message that they appeared to be from a '63 up Lark. The pictures were not the best but he responded with thanks and offered them for an even $100 including shipping. When they arrived well packed it turned out that they were a very nice set. Now all I have to do is find either a '62 or '62 two door sedan for that project which will probably be my last...

[studeclunker]

I could not have said that ANY better Jack, absolutely True.

You know SOMEBODY gets paid just for you clicking on something!
Whomever said that MONEY is the Root of ALL Evil, was Right ON!

Actually what Paul said is, "For the LOVE of money is the root of all evil." Money in and of itself isn't evil and quite convenient. However, the love of money, or greed, truly is evil. The internet in general proves that every day.

[tsenecal]

I find a lot of 1937 Studebaker parts on ebay. Some are used, some NOS, mostly items that a parts store or vender wouldn't have. Things like a spare tire clamp, headlight stands, or tail lights are tough to find, so I check my search weekly, and eventually they will pop up. The "Fits Studebaker" can be annoying, but if you dig a little deeper (different search titles) you can find good parts.

[Hallabutt]

It kind of depends on what you need and how rare the car and the part is. You guys who think that Studebakers weren't built before 1947 tend to live in your own worlds. For some of us we take what we get and find them where they are available. Before eBay someone could literally search a lifetime without finding an illusive part. Internet and networking changed all that.

[Skvora]

I ebay parts for my 88 MR2, but that's not as old as Studey and legit parts are still readily available and some come straight from Japan.

[Hawklover]

It kind of depends on what you need and how rare the car and the part is. You guys who think that Studebakers weren't built before 1947 tend to live in your own worlds. For some of us we take what we get and find them where they are available. Before eBay someone could literally search a lifetime without finding an illusive part. Internet and networking changed all that.

That is why G-D invented the York swap meet;-)