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Originally Posted by Wayne Maybury
I just checked the original story via the link and there isn't anything new so this continues to drag out.
I mentioned this situation to my daughter last night and her first reply was "was it written in the original sales contract that damaged parts had to be returned before replacement parts would be shipped?". That is a good point as the only parts that are normally returned are those that are replaced on warrantee.
Wayne
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Actually it would be a toss up bewteen who would own the damaged parts, #1.CS or the #2. owner of the car or the #3. insurance company paying the bill?????? Peronally I think #2 owns them!!!!!!!!!!!! He bought an d paid for them when he bought the car!!!!!!!!!!!!
Many times an insurance company will pick up damaged parts such as wheels/bumpers that are being replaced but have minor scrathes to the chrome or aluminum finish.......
I would not think CS has any rights to any parts, damaged or not, once the car is sold, those parts belong to the owner, now what he's doing is with holding selling/shipping new parts to someone untill he gets the old parts.... Legally, I don't think he would have much of a chance in court if it ever went that far, but that's only MY opinion..........Once a car is repaired,I would think the old damaged parts still belong to the owner of the car (again IMHO) but 99.9% of folks surely don't want to bring home a truck load of damaged parts, so the body shop disposes of them as they see fit, but they will gladly give them to the owner to haul off, saves them the trouble.........
Some parts such as bumper covers and bumpers will have a "core charge" so they are picked up by the manufacter of those parts...
As a side note, since I'm in that business, I checked and the GT-500 body parts are avaliable from Ford and do carry a Ford part number, down to the stripes..( the hood list price is about $1,200.00 and the entire stripe kit is about 1/3 of what I would have expected, most of the GT-500 specific parts are very reasonably priced!!!!!!!!!) The GT-500's were made entirely buy Ford and all CS did was lend his name, now the CS GT and KR's are a different story, they are Mustangs modified by CS in much the same way he did it in the 60's........He gets his body and mechanical parts from whatever vendor/source he wants to and that leaves Ford out of the equation altogther!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
it's going to be very interesting to see how this plays out, and I'll be watching.........
David
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