parts #'s-availability from GM-82 vette

[Don S.]

Joe Lucia or ??
Need to know part #'s and availability from GM of the following. Touch up paint-82 silver green, emblem on passenger side valve cover,reinforced silver paper hose that goes from drivers exhaust mainfold cover to arm of air cleaner. (Don't know what it is called), bottom seat cover replacement drivers side 82 silver green.
Thanks in advance
Don Steele

[Jack H.]

Re: parts #'s-availability from GM-82 vette

Have you tried working with your Chevrolet parts counter man? A lot of the requests we make to Joe could have been answered by going to Chevrolet first....

[Joe R.]

Re: parts #'s-availability from GM-82 vette

Bravo Jack! It could have not been said any better!

[Patrick H.]

Re: parts #'s-availability from GM-82 vette

Actually, a browse through virtually any Corvette catalog vendor would likely be the fastest (unless Joe knows the numbers off hand). I doubt the paint or seat bottoms are available from GM. The other two can be investigated at least through an appropriate GM parts book or possibly the AIM.

I find my local Chevrolet man to be absolutely useless with virtually any old part, unless I first investigate it and bring him the number. The likelihood of them knowing how many times a number has changed, and if it has been superceded, is next to nil. Sometimes I even bring my old book to them to show them what I'm after.

But yes, we do usually ask too much of Joe.

Patrick

[Don S.]

Re: parts #'s-availability from GM-82 vette

Jack--

I am in a small town with just one GM dealer. He is not very knowledgeable when it comes to the older vettes. Also remember I am in Canada and I do not know if a Canadian dealer would source from US for small items which do not have a lot of markup. Also consider my Canadian costs(Plus shipping, plus duties, plus brokerage, plus Canadian Sales taxes of (15%). But I will give him another try on these items. Thanks for the response though.

Don Steele

[Michael W.]

Don, your small town situation fits probably

95% of the people here, not just us Canadians.

Canadian dealers make no distinction as to US or Canadian sourced parts. Same-same.

[Joe L.]

Re: parts #'s-availability from GM-82 vette

Don-----

The touch up paint, valve cover emblem, air cleaner duct, and seat cover are, unfortunately, all GM-discontinued. The touch up paint and seat cover were discontinued "when the earth was young". The duct was discontinued about 12 years ago. The valve cover emblem was discontinued within the last 5 years, or so.

The good news is that all of these items are available in reproduction from sources like Dr. Rebuild and others.

[Donald Brunswick]

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Don,
First welcome to the world of 82's best place to get touch up spray cans is from Duplicolor, they have a customer service number that you can call and they might even ship you some free cans if tell them nobody in your area carries the color you have, make sure you have the paint code when you call. Otherwise, if you want touch up paint brush type try Mid America, there was a guy at Carlisle that also had it but I don't remember the name or number off the top of my head, I do know it was discussed just recently on this board.
Valve cover emblems are on eBay every day or pick you favorite Corvette vendor it is a very common item.
Heat riser tube is very difficult to find except incorrect silver ones. Best bet is to visit your local salvage yard, if you happen to find someone that supplies "Correct" replacement please e-mail me!
Seat cover is best to get from Al Knoch @ www.alknochinteriors.com/ but you probably won't be happy since the back is 22 years old and obviously faded over the years. IMO you might be better off to get a complete new seat cover set.

Any other 82 info you need don't hesitate to ping me, I've probably been through it already

donald

[Don S.]

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Don;; Thanks for the info. I used up all the duplicolor in my area. Still awaiting shelf restocking. Have to delay my restoration for a week or so. Also no one in my town has semi-gloss in quarts for brush application. Even car quest cannot supply enamel (either semi-gloss black or silver green) in quarts unless it is thinned down and in a spray can. This whole part # thing was started by the unability of Al Knock to supply seats for a silver green vette. They say none of their leather suppliers can match the color despite requests. I just thought maybe GM had some left.

Don
steele

[Joe L.]

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Don-----

Some good news. When I was responding to this post this morning, I was in a rush and I was operating entirely from memory. It turns out that I was incorrect on 2 of the items. 2 of them are still available from GM as shown below.

valve cover emblem-----GM #3946860--still available for a GM list of $5.75/each

a/cleaner pipe---------GM #1260631--still available for a current GM list of $12.50. I can't guarantee that this piece is exactly like the original in every way, though

seat cover-------------GM #14042202---discontinued July, 1987

touch-up paint---------I can find no record that this item was EVER available from GM in either 1/2 oz tube or 5 oz spray can (the only ways that touch up paint was available from GM) for your color code. I believe that this was a one-year-only and Corvette-only color code and that may be why it was never available.

[Don S.]

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Thanks Joe-- I will go tomorrow and order them. I can get the paint from Mid America and the best news of all is that Corvette Central can supply the new seat covers etc. even though Al Knock can not. Al Knock does not appear to be trying too hard. One quandry though Corvette Central has a supplier who has the materials to supply seat covers but will not repair my present ones so that I have a spare set , while Al Knock will repair seat covers but does not have the materials to do so..Go Figure!!!.

Don Steele

Don Steele

[Patrick H.]

Re: parts #'s-availability from GM-82 vette

Corvette Central is likely purchasing the covers from Corvette America. You might also check Mid America, as they are now making their own covers.

FYI, carefully check out the paint you receive from MidAmerica. Mine did not match (Bridgehampton Blue 1971). If I were you, I would have a local paint jobber try and do a match on the paint on your car, and mix up some for you. You have a unique color, and your car could easily look like it has the measles if a slightly off-tint color is used.

Patrick

[Joe L.]

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Don-----

I consider that Al Knoch has the highest quality and the highest QUALITY STANDARDS in the industry. If the material is out there (which it must be if another manufacturer is using it to make the covers), then I'm sure that Al Knoch "knows about it". It could be that they don't consider the material to meet their quality standards in one respect or another. In other words, they may figure that if they use this material, their sort of customers won't be happy with the finished product. I'm not saying, for sure, that this is the way it is. However, I think that I might want a smaple of the exact material used in these covers before I'd order them. If that's not possible then I'd inspect the covers carefully after receiving them and BEFORE they're installed to make sure that they're satisfactory to you.

Whatever the case, I don't think that you'll be happy with the final product if you attempt to replace just one of the cushion covers. I can virtually guarantee you that it won't match the existing covers, if only because it's "new" and the others are "old". More likely, the shade won't match, either. If the rest of your covers are in real good shape and you want to maintain as much originality as possible, I think that I'd have the one bad cushion cover repaired as best as can be done. Otherwise, I'd replace both covers on both seats.

[Don S.]

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PATRICK--

my local paint jobber says he can't ( or won't) produce some enamel paint. he says they only produce the thin spray can variety. That is why I am trying to get touch up enamel. (I was able to obtain a match for a different colour from a paint shop in Florida on another care by taking them a gas lid cover from the car, so I know that it is doable.) The rubber bumpers on my 82 have numerous stone chips on the front and the back and i cannot get the thin aerosol can paint to cover the black composite material. It already has the look of measels and it looks terrible. this is what i am trying to repair. If I screw up or the colour is not 100% I will just get them repainted professionally with a corect colour match to the cars paint. Just trying to save a couple of K
thanks

[Don S.]

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Joe.

I have ordered seat backs and seat bottoms for both passenger and driver sides as I do want them to match. I thought I could get the drivers seat bottom repaired (1/2 inch cut in plastic.) and have a spare set. The balance of the seat covers are like new. The new seats are costing 799.00 +++.Plus conversian to canadian dollars at 1.30 rate.. This small 1/2 inch cut is really expensive but I knew that when I bought the car.
Thanks again for your input. You are truly a national resource.