[Shotimes] Re: AutoZone

[Dave]

Going through my spam filter someone asked me what was wrong with 
Autozone............My answer what's NOT wrong with autozone. I had a 
"friendly" parts counter person argue with me that My 90 SHO had rear 
drum brakes and was not wasting his time looking up rotors and pads for 
a car that never had rear disk brakes.............But he did pull me a 
set of drums and shoes which I glady bought. Pulled out 4 way and jack 
removed the rear tires and went and got Mr parts genius and said how the 
F&*( do I get these to go on there? For which he was dumbfounded. Next 
Autozone was when the clutch went bad, Mr parts man at another store 
agrued with me that the Taurus never came in stick not even the SHO and 
the SHO was only an apperance package and nothing else. He was not 
looking up a clutch for the simple fact it did not have one.  And of 
course my Favorite Autozone experience of all. I stopped in there for 
throttle body gasket the counter guy said he would have to see the car I 
opened the Hood he dropped his jaw and said these exact words to me. You 
Might want to try NAPA there is no way I'll be able to get anything to 
fit your custom built intake.
Dave

MonsieurBoo@aol.com wrote:

>RonP:  "I have a NAPA nearby (Dave Pillsbury's favorite shop here  in 
>Oxford), plus there is an Autolite parts store nearby.....a typical,  old-school 
>grimey shop that has oddball stuff I need, like the drain plug for my  '99 AX4N 
>tranny pan, oil pan drain plugs (std & magnetic), and bins of  metric 
>bolts/nuts/washers."
> 
>I love those greasy old places.  After moving to DC from Hawaii where  
>everyone works on their cars out in front of the house, I have a theory that the  
>higher the average annual income of the community, the crappier the auto parts  
>places will be.  The ones in this county all have 20 kinds of carnauba wax  
>and a window full of spinner rims.  Asking about, oh let's say, Grade  8 bolts 
>is only good for a blank stare from the counterdude.  They are  clueless if it 
>doesn't have a part number in the computer.  I gotta go  over to the low-rent 
>county next door to find anything close to a real parts  shop staffed by 
>people who actually know something about 'em, thankya  kindly.  It's like a breath 
>of fresh air to go in there.
> 
>Mark LaBarre
>94 atx 130k
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