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Topic: Anybody ever hear of Scott Drake parts
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Fastymz
Gearhead Posts: 5145
From: Reno Nv USA MEM#1240
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 03-07-2002 05:21 PM
   
Dose any one know of this company and if so whats your take on them.SCOOP ------------------
65 coupe,1969-351w,RPM intake,Carter625,shorty headers,2.5 exhaust, Flowmasters,C4,open 8" 2:80,Big Boss 429 hood scoop,Crager SS,Black Suede.
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SteveLaRiviere
Administrator Posts: 24286
From: Saco, Maine Toys: '70 Mustang Mach 1 - '72 Mustang Sprint - '94 F-150
Registered: May 99
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posted 03-07-2002 05:55 PM
Yes, they make a lot of repro stuff. Some of it is good.  ------------------
'70 Mustang Mach 1 M code 351C 4V/FMX/3.25 open
'72 Mustang Sprint Coupe 351C 4V/FMX/4.30 Trac Lok
'94 F-150 XL 5.8L/E4OD/3.55 Limited Slip
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SuperDave
Gearhead Posts: 118
From: Tacoma, WA USA
Registered: Jun 2000
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posted 03-07-2002 06:00 PM
Scott Drake Reproduction as been around for a wile and makes "repop" parts for many kinds of cars beside Mustangs. Like most reproduction stuff, I like to judge quality on an item to item basis. It believe Drake to be a reputable business.
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Moneymaker
Administrator Posts: 13182
From: Lyons, IL, USA
Registered: May 99
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posted 03-07-2002 06:02 PM
I have only had one experiance with them and it was bad  ! I purchased their 65-66 Mustang reproduction trunk relase kit. What a chinsy piece of crap!  Tony and I worked for hours installing it in MM and it never would release. The instructions looked more like a bad xerox of a cartoon than an information guide. Phone calls were never returned, then finally on our own dime of course, we were told that nobody else complained. They would not accept it for return. The trunk latch cable attaching device was made from a paper clip. I am not exaggerating! I have seen better cables on lawn mowers! Absolute junk! Anyone want it? FREE to any member who needs the aggrevation. 
This is all that I know about the company. I have heard others speak highly of them, but most with the same dissatisfction that we experianced. Beware!  ------------------
Alex Denysenko
Co-Administrator and Moderator/ non 65-66 Mustang owner sensitivity co-ordinator NHRA/IHRA/SRA member
NHRA and IHRA SS/LA National Record Holder '00, '01, & '02
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Fastymz
Gearhead Posts: 5145
From: Reno Nv USA MEM#1240
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 03-07-2002 06:51 PM
Thanks I'll stick to NPD or Mustangs Plus.
Good price on parts is cool,if they dont fit thats not.SCOOP ------------------
65 coupe,1969-351w,RPM intake,Carter625,shorty headers,2.5 exhaust, Flowmasters,C4,open 8" 2:80,Big Boss 429 hood scoop,Crager SS,Black Suede.
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mellowyellow
Gearhead Posts: 4608
From: So. Fl.
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 03-07-2002 06:55 PM
Scott Drake has supposedly acquired Pro Products. A number of Pro Products parts are not being mfr'd at this time. One thing I got from them that is perfect- is the repo open letter Cobra valve covers-paid extra for polished. Redesigned baffles and excellent quality. And those have been taken off the market. Look for Carpenter to start selling some of the stuff on Ford dies. One is 65 fenders. Perhaps Rick can shed light on this parts situation.
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kcode
Gearhead Posts: 2170
From: alvaton,ky,usa Suburb of Bowling Green, M&M #79, MCA #29208
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 03-07-2002 07:00 PM
Scott Drake is a distributor, you don't buy direct from him unless you are a dealer. You would be surprised on the number of the big name catalogs that carry his parts. Like all repop parts, some are good, some are questionable. I have his master catalog, the parts he manufactures and packages has very good pricing, parts that he has to subcontract out can be bought just as cheap from the other guys. Mike
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Fastymz
Gearhead Posts: 5145
From: Reno Nv USA MEM#1240
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 03-07-2002 07:29 PM
My pops inlaw just started working for a parts house in Carson City Nv.He can get me his price on the Scott Drake parts.
Thats why I asked,I was going to order a manual steering center link,and a few misc,little parts. SCOOP ------------------
65 coupe,1969-351w,RPM intake,Carter625,shorty headers,2.5 exhaust, Flowmasters,C4,open 8" 2:80,Big Boss 429 hood scoop,Crager SS,Black Suede.
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Moneymaker
Administrator Posts: 13182
From: Lyons, IL, USA
Registered: May 99
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posted 03-07-2002 07:29 PM
They sold me direct. ------------------
Alex Denysenko
Co-Administrator and Moderator/ non 65-66 Mustang owner sensitivity co-ordinator NHRA/IHRA/SRA member
NHRA and IHRA SS/LA National Record Holder '00, '01, & '02
Fleet of FoMoCo products including 88 ASC McLaren Mustang #28
Part time secret agent license #0089
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The Iceman
Gearhead Posts: 1862
From: Shelton, CT
Registered: Jul 2000
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posted 03-07-2002 08:02 PM
Ive purchased two Scott Drake parts - a '65-'66 Taillight housing which was honestly a piece of crap (the connector for the bulb was all screwed up and got jammed and Ive bought his reproduction heater box hoses, which, to be honest, there is NO way to screw up ducting haha So 1 good (but it was a given!) and 1 bad ------------------
CrAzY Dan~
1965 Coupe "BeeBop" 200ci Straight "6"~2.77 3-spd w/Hurst Shifter~Pertronix Elec. Ign.~Flamethrower Coil~Flex-Fan~Clifford 6-2 Header~26" Smithys~3" chrome tips~'85 T-Bird TC buckets~'66 guages
https://mustangsandmore.com//ubb/TheIceman.html July of 2000 pics
http://www.motorcities.com/contents/01GF9250033520.html July of 2001 pics
http://kingroyale.50megs.com/ Feb. 2002 pics!
There's Nothing Wrong With A Little Six In A Classic Mustang! ;)
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MidLifCrisis
Gearhead Posts: 104
From: USA
Registered: Oct 2001
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posted 03-07-2002 11:06 PM
Fastymz, I had disassembled and rechromed the vent window housings on my '68. I had first gotten a replacement weatherstrip that had some brand like M.M. or something. It was crappy, not modeled cleanly with a lot of flashing or fuzzys at the edges from a poor mold. I tracked down a vendor that didn't use M.M. brand, and it turned out to be Scott Drake brand weather stripping. It was molded well and fit well. I was pleased. Charlie
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RICKS
Gearhead Posts: 151
From: Ocala, FL
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 03-08-2002 11:02 AM
I'll try to shed some light on the Carpenter deal without stepping too strongly on any toes. I originally had the option on the Ford tooling for sheetmetal (65-66 fenders, hoods, valances, etc...) Only problem was that when you added up expenses of moving it (picture a convoy of semi trucks), refurbishing it as needed, building new fixtures to replace stuff that was lost or broken, and on and on, and factor that in with the unfortunately HIGH quotes we received to produce the fenders in the U.S., that the cost of the finished product would be so high that the volume would be pathetic (in my view) and we would have run the risk of digging a hole way too deep to ever come out in the black on paper. Plus I simply think that it's B.S. to have to charge $350-$450 for a stinking Mustang fender, even if the ghost of Henry Ford formed it with his bare hands. It just rubs my sensibilities the wrong way. Of course there are those in the hobby that lose their minds and their sense of value-received for value-given when you even mention original Ford parts, so consumed with blue oval fever that they'll pay $800 for a door lock knob. They think that at any price that people will line up like drones in droves and pay it just because it's off Ford tooling. Well, I've been sitting on a stash of 65-66 Ford fenders left over from when they were still available from Ford that I've got to get $500/piece for because of how much Ford used to charge for them. I haven't sold a single unit in over a YEAR at that price. Meanwhile, hundreds and hundreds of affordable repros have flown out the door. I'm not knocking anybody particularly, but pricey parts is not where the true "hobby" is at, pricey parts like the stuff we roll our eyes at on ebay is the fringe. What fuels the popularity of the Mustang hobby above and beyond other cars is not the thoroughbred class, but instead the wide availability of affordable parts, and yes alot of them come here on a boat. It's a car you can fix up to be sharp and enjoy and get alot of attention in without taking a 2nd mortgage out on your house. So on this fender issue, I guess you can consider me your "advocate for sanity in pricing". I'm sure that plenty of vendors will be selling these re-issue fenders at probably $399.00, and the annointed few who have the dough will buy them in what I believe will be piddling amounts compared to how they WOULD sell if a U.S. factory actually put their minds to making them affordable instead of holding a gun to everyones head and saying "pay us for these, or install an imported fender". Well, I'm not going to carry them. Call it a protest, a boycott, whatever, I'm figuring that if the largest distributor says "no" that maybe something will change for the better. Maybe it won't. Carpenter is not directly making the fenders, they will be produced at the same factory that had been making them for Ford. Carpenter has the distributing rights through his Ford tooling agreement. I'm not knocking Carpenter here either, they're doing a beautiful job with the Ford tooling that they're producing "in-house", and they aren't the ones setting the manufactured price for the fenders. They're simply handling the distribution. I was going to do it first, but didn't feel that it made sense. Other than the obvious stigma of putting Taiwanese metal on your American Mustang and wanting to support American-made product (we ALL want that), the imported fenders continue to improve as manufactures have invested in progressively better tooling. The seperation in quality today between repro and original is closer than it's ever been, and for your average daily driver or weekend cruiser there's no justification to spend another 300 bills on a re-issued Ford off of an old possibly tired tool-set. But if you're working diligently on a quality, original-Ford-parts restoration (there's nothing wrong with that, that's how I do MY cars!) that you'll be proud of when you're done, well....there's that gun pointing at your head. My gripe is that it doesn't have to be that much more expensive. Back when the fenders were readily available through Ford, Ford set a retail of around $500 bucks. At that retail I used to sell roughly 1 Ford fender for every 100 repro fenders. I don't know why that ratio would be any different today. Probably worse, considering the strong advent of "resto-mod".
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Moneymaker
Administrator Posts: 13182
From: Lyons, IL, USA
Registered: May 99
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posted 03-08-2002 12:41 PM
Boy......and I thought that I had problems when I needed new fenders. Glad that I don't need to go through that ordeal again. I feel for you Rick.
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Alex Denysenko
Co-Administrator and Moderator/ non 65-66 Mustang owner sensitivity co-ordinator NHRA/IHRA/SRA member
NHRA and IHRA SS/LA National Record Holder '00, '01, & '02
Fleet of FoMoCo products including 88 ASC McLaren Mustang #28
Part time secret agent license #0089
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Mike65
Gearhead Posts: 1571
From: Columbia,NJ, USA. 65 Fastback, 69 Coupe MCA #-04549
Registered: Dec 2000
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posted 03-08-2002 08:15 PM
Sccop,
They make repo parts, & just like any other company some is good & some not so good. Be careful. Just my .02.------------------
Mike & Robin
65 Mustang Fastback
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87 LTD CV
96 Ranger Extd Cab PU
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