I think I read earlier this year that GM employees had access to some old NOS parts that are not available to the public. Can someone give me some info on that? I've got a friend that works for GM, and I'd like to steer him in the right direction if that program does exist...

Thanks for any input.

Rick

Welcome.

What you read sounds strange. I have found the only "magic key" was knowing the part number. It was just like any parts house at that point. If the parts people at my local Pontiac/GMC dealer could find the part in the computer after I gave them the number, I was "in".

I got my NOS fenders and radiator support that way.

Doug Rustin posted something about a GM inside line on some wheel opening trim. You could try to email him using the link on one of his posts.
Jim

I was a GM employee, and the only thing that they offered was always finding ways to rook me on warrenty work.

Trust me, GM ain't doin' anything specail for its employees, and the only advantage that GM employees have acess to part numbers, whereby someone in parts wouldn't feel like dinking around with finding such information for someone off the street.

I did have one edge, but it wasn't on spcail parts. I don't know whether it was because I was a GM employee, or if it was a perk offered by the dealerhsip. I could buy parts for 10% above what my dealership bought parts from GM. By the way, I could only buy parts for my cars and my necular family.

Thanks for the info... probably is too good to be true. I'm about 50% through with my convertible bird, and was just pursuing the lead.

I'm going to have a ton of parts left over when I'm done... the guy I bought the car from had been buying up parts for ten years, and then lost interest. I bought everything he had, and I'll post my leftovers as I go.

Rick

Amervo- is that to say that a crate 502 cost you the smae as me buying through some catalog?

If so thats not right.

John

GM has a bunch of goodies for employees but few really know about them. For instance, if you own a GM car and need a new engine you can get the engine for free as long as you hire a GM dealership to install it for you. I know, it sounds too good to be true, but I personally know DOZENS of people who have taken GM up on this - even LT-1s. Seriously. My understanding is that this isn't just a Flint, Michigan thing either.

I know of many GMites who have gotten lots of free parts from storehouses, vaults, R&D facilities and the back corners of subcontracted warehouses. It usually takes knowing someone to obtain these parts though. A buddy of mine never had any problem getting almost any part for his obsolete GM car without so much as paying a dime.

The perks are there, but they're sometimes hard to find.

- Jake

If have a g.m. employee in your
family you can get g.m. parts at dealer cost.

Alls you need is the part# and now the part #'s are now longer available through g.m. for cars as old as ours.

But if you can get the part # as alot of us have them.
G.M. still has part's for our cars in stock.
The only thing is you have to go to the warehouse where the parts are stored at.
I think the free parts that your talking about are leaving the plant unnoticed.

That's right and I really don't think there are any free engines. If so I will line up my cars! GM perks have all but disappeared and they would love to catch someone sneaking something out of the warehouse. You would be fired in a heartbeat and they can replace you with a lower payed new employee. A friend and coworker got fired for taking home a piece of sandpaper! The days of Generous Motors are over.
Jim

The last guy I know who collected on that free engine did so two years ago. That policy may be obsolete, but a GM sheetmetal worker says it's still going.

I wired up an acquaintance's pole barn a couple of years ago. He is the service manager of a local dealership. He claimed the practice was legit, but no one knew of it. His dealership had only dropped in a few dozen engines.

GM does some pretty odd things.

- Jake