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I would like to say that the pics are making me want to buy more parts. But I am not trying to bad mouth VPW but if I choose to buy some of those parts I know that I will pay top dollar. I have not had the best or worst expierences with them but I would like to use the "smaller guys" who care a lot about their buisness and its name. A few times I have gotten repackaged parts that I could have gotten elsewhere a lot cheeper that just get me. But like a lot of you I am sure that this will not stop me from buying some of those parts. Lastly if it was midwest or m-series with those parts the order would already be placed.

good or bad service aside, those front fenders look fantastic... I wonder how much they want for a set...

as far as the chinese knock offs, at least some of those steering wheels certainly are. Look at the boxes they are in. They are the same steering wheels sold on Ebay.

My experiences with VPW are mixed, I bought my M-37 and my former M-43 from them in 1996, Internet was a dream at that time.
They charged me for a disposable camera, took pictures of the trucks and then mailed it to me so I can have the film processed and the choose wich one I wanted. Ain´t technology a great thing?
I picked one with 12000 miles on the odometer, bought some parts that were missing, a NOS hot water heater kit, and then they installed the powertrain I bought from Boyce equipment. They refund me some cash for the 230 and transmssion I was going to leave with them anywhere.
The installation was good enough that when I bought the M-43 from them I flew to Miami where I installed myself the powertrain in the M-43 with the brackets I´ve copied from the M-37.

You know they could have nailed me big time buying not one but two trucks over the phone from Argentina. The M-37 now has 90000 miles on it. The M-43 was barely used and I finally sold it last year to a friend who was the owner of the garage where I kept it for more that 7 years.

After this I tried to buy some parts, a couple of times, but Steve was never available, they didn´t wanted to accept the international credit card, (after selling me two complete trucks paid with credit card)
Then I´ve placed a big order, they sent me 50% of wrong parts, so I sent back to them all the order, and cancel the payment with the credit card company.
I´ve never bought from them again.
I think that they grew up a lot, and somewhere on the road, they lost the service quality they used to have.

Another great seller was Boyce, they sold me two 6.2 diesel engine packages and I´ve placed 78000 miles on one of them without any trouble. It was a used no warranty engine.
John Bizal, Sid, Fred at Adirondack were great experiences too.

I had contacted VPW regarding their new material as posted here as I was looking for a NOS lt door for my M.

A few emails w/ Steve, a few digital images and a phone call later and a beautiful NOS left door is sitting in my front room. D@mn UPS curled a corner a wee bit but otherwise straight and pretty as a NOS panel should be!

My order was placed on 25FEB08 and goods were rec'd 01MAR08. I am pleased.

HOLZINGER wrote:I had contacted VPW regarding their new material as posted here as I was looking for a NOS lt door for my M.

A few emails w/ Steve, a few digital images and a phone call later and a beautiful NOS left door is sitting in my front room. D@mn UPS curled a corner a wee bit but otherwise straight and pretty as a NOS panel should be!

My order was placed on 25FEB08 and goods were rec'd 01MAR08. I am pleased.

Your experiences are similar to mine, BUT a NOS Left Hand Door! I thought I was the king of deals with a NOS Front fender two years ago?
On the whole I haven't had too many problems, guys like Steve & Bubba are an asset to VPW & Dave Butler.

m-37Bruce wrote: .....a NOS Left Hand Door! I thought I was the king of deals with a NOS Front fender two years ago?......

From what Steve said, they have 4 remaining in stock IIRC.

About 2 years ago I bought a super straight drivers door form 'em. I am going to try and add a link to Robi's Gallery? Looks like it worked?

http://www.g741.org/photogallery/main.php?g2_itemId=48

knattrass wrote:Peter - I prefer to support guys like MW and MSeries - guys that consistantly support the forum. Period. I only shop on their referrals if they don't have it.

Being new to this, who is MW and M Series?

Drum roll please........ MW is John Bizal @ Midwest-Mil and M Series is Charles @ M-Series Rebuild.
Sorry for the confusion.