Okay, as most of you know, I've been trying to re-produce the chromed hood scoop grill inserts, that some of the fortunate SS members have. I have spent some time researching the costs assosciated with making up a group purchace deal. During my research, Deanne from our very own Afterthoughtsauto.com has offered up some of there volume buying help. I am happy to report that with Deannes help, it may become a part of their product offering at the store. Deanne is trying very dilligently to put the most affordable deal possible together. As usual though, the more interested parties, the cheaper they can be produced. As a matter of coincidence, Deanne is working on chroming some Grand prix parts, so it only made sense to hand it over to them. As of right now, the projected price for a minimum of 20 committed orders would be $70.00. Of course, the more interest in them, the less expensive. Keep in mind, the price may be a little more than the last batch done, but the quality and the product delivery should be superior. Like I said in prior posts, I for one definitaly want one so, Im working closely with Deaanne to make this a reality. BTW, the grills will be brand new OEM from GM, and no shipping haslles. Hopefully in the next few weeks, we should have more info on whats going on. Just FYI, a new grill from GM runs approximately $40 bucks, so this really isnt a bad deal if you consider the end result. Please be patient, and I or Deanne will be bringing you another update soon. Thank you, to the group who reponded to me by e mail, hang in there, were working on it!
Ralph
good job
I would still like to have an extra one but hopefully the finish will be a little smoother this time.
Bill
I've heard of some folks being told that chroming costs for a single item could be $100 to $200, which does not include the part itself. Those local chromers may be excessively high but it shows you that when the cost of the part, chroming, and business expenses, $70 is fairly reasonable.
I hope you post when it is available. I don't know why none of the other companies have started doing this yet.
[ 11 September 2001: Message edited by: Kevin V 2002 SS ]
We have put up an order page, with a picture courtesy of Mark. The current price is $70 shipped. If we can get 35 orders the price will drop to $60 shipped. Basically we will keep a count going on the page and when we reach 20 we will have enough for a batch. I'm not sure the best way to let it stay open to try to reach the 35 for the savings. Maybe when we hit the 20 count we can let everyone decide if they want to wait and try for 35 for the price savings. I know everyone would like to have their new piece as soon as possible and I hate to make the first few people wait while we try to reach a higher count. So it will be sorta up to the first 20 people. We will buy some extra pieces so your new members who missed this will have an opportunity to get one. The minimums we have established are basically to cover the cost of the parts, the metallizing fee, shipping, etc.
As we get close to the number of orders we will go ahead and place the order with the dealer for the parts to save some time. We are also mailing 2 parts to the company today since they offered to do samples for us. The other part is the front grill pieces for the Grand Prix. We are hoping to get our Grand Prix club members interested and that may help the volume and price. Not having seen one of these up close I was curious how they looked in person and we won't have much luck with our Grand Prix club until we have a sample on a car.
If anyone has any questions please let me know. I can't say that I fully understand this metallizing process but it does appear to have great results.
"Chrome" hood scoop insert
Regards,
Deanne Wagner
Afterthoughts Auto
