I'll let them mull about what we discussed and hit them up with a list of van and ute specific stuff that are hard to find.
Les wants to get a HK Baturst tank off me and repro it. They didn't even think about the fact that the bottom half is the same as a Salisbury car's normal tank, and that by making the Bathurst tank they had also made the bottom half of the normal Salisbury tank. It is that sort of thinking that they need.
We also told them their website is crap, and it is being addressed.
I was quite vocal in telling them that the descriptions of the parts online have to be 100% accurate. It is no good selling a part eg a HJ sedan fuel tank, saying "suits HJ sedan". When in fact there are 3 x different tanks: 1974 vented, 1975-1976 with canister and late trial ADR27A HJ tanks. Same with engine bay clips - kits have to be either described as to exactly what they suit, or all clips must be provided with explanations of what is needed for which month/year. It is this last 5% of detail that really counts. They are not going to be able to do this themselves, so I have offered to help in some areas. They do rely upon parts catalogues too much and this is a big folly and major trap. They are also using part numbers to catalogue equipment. Straight away I told them that is has to be also 100% correct. The very first thing I looked at was HK-HG guards. They are making HK style, and they have used HK 74 prefix part numbers for the stock guards. But they have used a 28 prefix number for the GTS guards. Straight away I told them it was a HT-HG part number, response was "it is out of the HK parts catalogue". Yes it is, but it is a 1972 parts book - a parts catlogue was there to allow GMH dealers to service cars, hence part numbers were superceded by newer numbers that fitted but were not the same. Des West got disqualified from second place Bathurst in 1968 from this as the heads he bought for teh car were not allowable on a 1968 HK GTS327, yet they were Service spares provided over the counter by GMH. In short their product approval process needs review so that more people are involved. For example if they start making more GTS style dashes i'd like to see Sean involved in the approval process. Payment might end up being a gift voucher or free fascia or a warm fuzzy feeling, who knows? I'll be pushing them hard for this to happen more often, i've already managed to get them to send Greg repro HQ twin headlight surrounds for inspection. Hopefully this can grow.
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