C&G Early Ford Parts

I called yesterday to speak to an early Ford specialist to confirm they had the molding clips for my 1957 Ford Fairlane required. I received a, yeah yeah we got them over the phone so quickly I questioned him if he had them all. My intent was to have actually verify they were physically there so after asking the second time he put me on hold. After returning to the phone he confirmed that he did in fact have them.
The next day I take off work early to drove an hour on a Friday to get the clips. What actually happen is the gentleman at the counter knew nothing about a 57 Fairlane little alone the clips. He opened on of their catalogs and found clips labeled for my car but could not identify how many I needed of the six different styles required for the car. Nothing in the catalog, store or anything else had an illustration of the car body and identification of clips like an assembly manual. Or maybe the Ford specialist at the counter was not motivated to help me make a purchase outside of asking someone behind the wall who recommend he call another «specialist» down the road who couldn’t provide an answer.
Researching it on my phone I found another Ford supplier who did have a full illustration with part numbers and quantities with the exception of front fender. I provided the website address of his competitors illustration and he printed it out to review. He was then able provide me with the clips for the fender based on the illustration but still could or would not indentify the fender clips and I had to settle for only the door clips for $ 62 going elsewhere for the fender clips. Preparing to leave in my car I called their competitor who owns the illustration on line I was able to speak to someone willing to help me who turned out to be a true Ford specialist. He explained that I need a total of 32 clips for one fender and one door, the history of the top molding clip identifying C & G’s top clip as an older inferior reproduction, and even installation tips. I’m not posting to promote this other company but will say that I walked back inside and returned C & G’s merchandise to the same low energy attendant with the hopes the credit gets applied to my card.
After returning to my car I placed my order by phone from the other vendor and the correct clips and quatity will be here Monday. I used hours of my life, 2 hours of my salary, and about $ 30 in fuel and maintenance costs in my experience with C & G.
2 stars because they may have what someone needs but there just anybody there motivated enough to help you find it in my opinion.
12/​11/​2015 update:
Instead of a credit they charged me again. Now I gave to go to the bank to dispute.

in a word awesome!!! don’t use lmc

My boyfriend has a 49 ford and this is the go to place for any early ford parts! Cody, Kyle and Andrew are always happy to help their customers!

Fair prices and great stock — and they’ll let you know when backordered items come in. I like the email specials they list every month. One warning… If the counter help seems less knowledgeable, ask for someone else and/​or check your part numbers…

EXCELLENT, FAST response to orders!
Reasonable pricin
edited from here down t-​day 04÷25÷14
my review *usta* be 5 star
Quality merchandise? — not so shure bout the quality now as my Merc had started shakin and I traced it to a very loose outer tie rod end purchased here and discovered as well, the *other* outer as well as the inner on *that* side, tie rod end loose too — just not as much –
asked about replacement, was told it had been «over a year» since I’d purchased — thing is – these are the SECOND sets of the tie rod ends [ bought a coupla sets as I like to have spares on the shelf ] to go bad
waiting now for new parts from anuther source — I DON’T like a shaking vehicle!
I’m not happy