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You are sitting there with tears filling your eyes as you gave lovingly at the antique car that is your pride and joy. However, that pride is tinged with sadness for the antique car has not moved from the spot where it now rests for months. Has it finally died? No it has not. You know that the only reason your faithful car will not move is that it lacks one spare part, that tiny object that will see it grace the highways again.

You feel that you have failed your old antique friend. During those long months you have tried every day to locate a replacement for the part that is faulty. Breakers yards, e-bay and other Internet options have been traversed hour after hour; all to no avail One can also assume that you have tried all of the specialist Antique car clubs and associations, on the off chance that the part would surface somewhere. However remote the location you would have braved the elements to get to it. Still failure sits with you and your silent antique car is a constant reminder of this failure.

What do you do when spare parts for antique parts are unavailable? When you own an antique car one of the biggest problems that you will experience in maintaining this automobile to a standard that ensures it retains its value is locating authentic spare parts. With many antique cars today the parts are becoming almost impossible to find as the number of automobiles in existence diminish in number. When, as in the case described above, that impossibility becomes a reality, it seems that finally all might be lost, but is it?

Before, making suggestions as to how you might deal with the problem when spare parts are unavailable, a method of search that might not have been considered will be suggested. This is to locate the automobile manufacturer if they are still in existence for example Ford. It is feasible, although by no means certain, that they might be able to help you locate the spare part. These companies often receive letters from antique car owners supplying details about antique automobiles and there is a tendency for the manufacturer to collect historical data of this nature. In any event it is worth a try. However, as said, even this might be a fruitless exercise.

Whilst it might be true that you cannot find an original spare part, there is at least one way of overcoming this problem. The first step is to again contact the automobile manufacturer, or a special association for this make of antique car. What you need from either of these sources is the exact

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