I do not know how to answer your question as I find it completely opposite. I don't think there is a commercial market for parting out coach's as there are so many people willing to assist each other through the GMC community through goodwill, a commercial place cannot make money on the parts. if you add shipping to something, then it really gets out to a price range many will not pay, because they can find it locally.

There are people out there with the parts, and maybe they are "hording them?".... I personally have never seen used parts availability an issue. I have quite a few parts on my coach that have come from all sorts of great people, and all over different parts of the country over the years. Some super GMC folks over the last 9-10 years have helped keep my GMC I had originally bought for $500 on the road. There was a few summers I barely had a budget to buy gas for the coach, must less a new part.


the forum has the "swap meet". GMCMI has a swap meet at their conventions. They also usually have a board up, where people have listed parts. Most times at our local club gatherings, someone has a box of parts sitting there on a picnic table. and BDUB has his site: http://www.gmcmotorhomemarketplace.com/

Rich,
I just put newer, nicer bumpers on my '73 courtesy of Tom Whitton in Kentucky. (Thanks again Tom.) I had posted in the GMCMI "Wanted" section for most of a year before Tom noticed it and emailed. The first two people, roughly 3 months apart, who contacted me were scammers who had relatively convincing stories. I dodged those bullets. There are not that many points of contact with the GMC Motorhome community and they are not that hard to find. A year-long search for good bumpers should have taken about 3 weeks, or so I thought, at first.

I just don't see the well of parts or parts coaches that you seem to feel is out there. If so, there would be advertisements and addresses and listings in every GMC publication online and otherwise. Yet, there are always listings of GMC parts suppliers online and print, along with appropriate appeals to support them because they are the lifeblood of a fading marque. But used parts, not so much. I've always known I could get newly chromed bumpers from the Jim's or Jeff and others. But I wanted cheaper, good used is good enough, as you say. Since none of the regular known GMC suppliers offered used bumpers, I have just assumed that the "likely not recoverable" coaches they had on their back lots were kept to solve otherwise unsolvable problems for their in-patient customers. I am perfectly comfortable with that.

It seems to me that the old chain metaphor is at work here. Those of us who need "good enough" parts pull the chain and nothing's on the other end of it. I also have a bunch of parts laying around but think it's too much time, trouble and work to list them. Like, why push on a chain? It's easy and fast to see a wanted request and respond, it's a lot harder to offer up a blind listing and hope someone needs it. I don't do facebook so that's a loss to me, but the new forum has a parts thread that may just become a thing, if we support it. That's where my money is to solve this problem. JWIT


Douglas & Virginia Smith
dsmithy18 at gmail
Lincoln Nebraska
'73 "Canyonlands" since '95: "Wanabizo", Anishinabe Indian for "He gets lost driving" Yes, really.
Quadrabag/6 wheel disks/3;70 final/Paterson QuadraJet/Thorley's/Sundry other
P&W PT6, no wait, that's the wish list...

> On Dec 30, 2019, at 5:54 PM, tonka6cuda6--- via Gmclist wrote:
>
> No question, there are some of the most giving people on the planet in this and other groups associated with these coaches. I, like i presume most,
> have asked and received information etc from some and hope i can repay the favor when the time comes....
>
> I know all those sites and watch them regularly to which some havent had anything posted since 2017....
>
> Maybe im not looking in all the right places or at the right times.....
>
> As i said, it was just a question to raise a query and maybe shake a couple apples from the tree that have been in the back 40 for too long.
>
> lqqkatjon wrote on Mon, 30 December 2019 17:44
>> There are people out there with the parts, and maybe they are "hording them?".... I personally have never seen used parts availability an
>> issue. I have quite a few parts on my coach that have come from all sorts of great people, and all over different parts of the country over the
>> years. Some super GMC folks over the last 9-10 years have helped keep my GMC I had originally bought for $500 on the road. There was a few
>> summers I barely had a budget to buy gas for the coach, must less a new part.
>>
>>
>> the forum has the "swap meet". GMCMI has a swap meet at their conventions. They also usually have a board up, where people have listed parts.
>> Most times at our local club gatherings, someone has a box of parts sitting there on a picnic table. and BDUB has his site:
>> http://www.gmcmotorhomemarketplace.com/
>
>
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Thanks Doug for the reply....you hit the nail on the head.

Rich,
I just put newer, nicer bumpers on my '73 courtesy of Tom Whitton in Kentucky. (Thanks again Tom.) I had posted in the GMCMI "Wanted" section for most of a year before Tom noticed it and emailed. The first two people, roughly 3 months apart, who contacted me were scammers who had relatively convincing stories. I dodged those bullets. There are not that many points of contact with the GMC Motorhome community and they are not that hard to find. A year-long search for good bumpers should have taken about 3 weeks, or so I thought, at first.

I just don't see the well of parts or parts coaches that you seem to feel is out there. If so, there would be advertisements and addresses and listings in every GMC publication online and otherwise. Yet, there are always listings of GMC parts suppliers online and print, along with appropriate appeals to support them because they are the lifeblood of a fading marque. But used parts, not so much. I've always known I could get newly chromed bumpers from the Jim's or Jeff and others. But I wanted cheaper, good used is good enough, as you say. Since none of the regular known GMC suppliers offered used bumpers, I have just assumed that the "likely not recoverable" coaches they had on their back lots were kept to solve otherwise unsolvable problems for their in-patient customers. I am perfectly comfortable with that.

It seems to me that the old chain metaphor is at work here. Those of us who need "good enough" parts pull the chain and nothing's on the other end of it. I also have a bunch of parts laying around but think it's too much time, trouble and work to list them. Like, why push on a chain? It's easy and fast to see a wanted request and respond, it's a lot harder to offer up a blind listing and hope someone needs it. I don't do facebook so that's a loss to me, but the new forum has a parts thread that may just become a thing, if we support it. That's where my money is to solve this problem. JWIT


Douglas & Virginia Smith