Alexander Bilan wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:
> You're lucky if you can sit at their counter and browse the books.  And
> these days the trend is towards putting a lot of that stuff on the
> computer, typicall on a cdrom.
 AB> And thats very dependant on whos working the counter when you 
 AB> walk in.  I had one guy once tell me it was against policy to 
 AB> give me the part numbers he looked up, and refused to give me 
 AB> the part numbers.
In that situation I'd ask to have that policy verified by some higher-up,  
and if it were fact,  take my business elsewhere... 
 AB> Same dealership, I had a guy who was all gung ho about digging 
 AB> into the old stuff and leafing through the pages, and even let 
 AB> ME flip some pages. =-) One of those rare moments.

 AB> If I remember correctly (gotta go to another computer to find 
 AB> out for sure) the GM Performance Parts catalog (U.S only, not 
 AB> available in Canada unfortuneately...You can guess where I 
 AB> am..) has a CD Rom available for a very reasonable price (less 
 AB> than 20 bucks) of some set of information. Might2 be worth 
 AB> looking into. Its in on of the covers of the catalog. And also 
 AB> in the PDF version of the catalog you can get from the GM 
 AB> performance parts web site.
Hmm.  I don't have web access at the present time,  nor do I get into any GM 
stuff,  but I'll have to take a look around and see what I can find out about 
some of this stuff.
email: roy.j.tellason%tanstaaf@frackit.com 
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