MADE IN AMERICA! Parts Vendor List

If we don't keep this thread on point and on target as HAMB related, this important info will be lost via a deleted thread.

Let's just get the list in place "to the best of our knowledge at this time" and we can always modify/change things as we go along. Nothing in business ever stays the same so I'm sure there will be some on the list that will come and go, depending ....

 

EMS sheet metal parts are made in the USA. Suedzville's bullet59 bluedots are made in the USA and all their screen printing is done in the USA.

 

I disagree that "greedy corporations" are the total problem. Consumers (you) fell for the cheap Asian crap and bought that stuff instead of American made goods. Your parents started by buying Jap crap cars, mainly in the California market because they perceived the quality to be higher (probably was). They bought cheap stuff from KMART and elsewhere. This trend forced American manufacturers to scramble to cut price (hence cost). Since American materials and labor were at the high end of the cost structure, they had to look elsewhere to manufacture their stuff. Walmart had a "buy American" policy when Mr. Walton was alive but the consumer was too stupid to buy quality....they bought low price from the competition. When Mr. Walton died, the American sourcing policy died to and Walmart boomed....they fed the consumers the crap they demanded. As Pogo said "we have found the enemy and it is us"

 

I have been in the Industrial / Manufacturing sector in Chicago for the last 20 years, and the "Made in the US of A" situation is so foggy it is hard to get a handle on. I Service Industrial scales for a living, and just today I was in 3 different plants.

1. An ITW division that produces exterior door handles for Toyotas, plastic pellets that come from Joliet Ill go in the Receiving doors and Toyota parts go out the shipping doors.

2. NB coatings a Japanese owned company that makes paint for GM using pigments from Nippon

3. A fertilizer company that packages fertilizer and Insecticides here in Illinois and ships 90% of their product to China.



As for the argument that Unions are the reason manufacturing is leaving the US of A, it is a part of the problem, but add in the EPA, OSHA, and all of the other regulations and rules that surround manufacturing in the US of A and it is a HUGE uphill battle. Personally I don't mind that a lot of the chemical and steel industry has gone overseas. Let China screw up their environment. I was in Pittsburgh last year and actually saw the sun!

 

The restoration shop I work at makes 98 parts for Model A's. All made in Nor Cal.He sale to all the old ford stores.So some of the parts you buy for your Model A's are still made in the U.S.A.

Just my 2 cents. Cheers

 

Scat cranks: Made in China but machined in the US. So you can have a crappy casting as long as the tolerences are okay.

And here's the best one (watch this video): http://www.kirotv.com/videos/news/harley-davidson-made-in-america/vFGZt/

 

Steve Long makes the best radiators in the world in Indianapolis, Indiana.

 

Mahle (pistons), TRW (R&P strg), Baldor (Dodge bearings) and Borla (exhaust) all have plants here or nearby.

 

Made in America is the topic. Do you have ADD? Stay on point!

 

Thank you for this. I hope we can get all of our needed parts manufacture back into production in this great nation. I appreciate your work for us.
Normbc9

 

Neither has Brass Works or many replacement steering gearbox manufacturers. I also see a lot of ceramic based product like some insulators still being produced at Gladding-McBean in Lincoln, CA. My son tells me that the old North American Aircraft plant in Torrance, CA is now home to two custom machine Shops dedicated to precision auto performance items for a group of financiers from St. Louis.
Normbc9

 

american workers in a american factory

the ems guy

 

Well said Mike.
If everyone in the US (or the UK or Australia) stopped buying cheap Chinese products, then the Walmarts and KMarts of this world would go out of business. Mind you, so much stuff is now ONLY made in China, etc, there'd probably be nothing to buy.
I just hope China are benevolent masters when they take over the world.
Hmmmm, hang on - what has all this got to do with traditional hot rods............?????

 

Flowmasters and Carrillo rods are still made here.

 

American Eagle Wheels are not assembled in the USA, they are Made in the USA.

 

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Originally Posted by porknbeaner
A lot of Ford parts are actually made in Mexico and have been since the late '70s or maybe early '80s. Then you have the problem of where the metal is produced, we don't have many if any mills here any more.

Lets see I believe that Mosure and Dutchman axles are made here.

Bell axles are cast in Kansas.

Someone esle can clarify this for sure but I believe that Harris radiators have not gone off shore yet.
It's a sad... sad truth, we simply don't make anything anymore. That's mainly due to costs driven up over the years by the unions.

I have a very good friend that is a major designer/supplier of reproduction parts for a particular GM brand (I'll leave it at that). We were walking around Carlisle a couple of years ago shootin' the shit when his phone rang. He said that he had to take the call, it was from China. When he got off the phone I looked at him and said, China!?!? He said yeah and that if he had the parts made here they would cost so much that no one would be able to afford them. He went on to say that he didn't like it but he was forced into doing it or guys wouldn't have parts for their cars.

As a businessman myself I reluctantly understood.





You don't have a clue! If it wasn't for the unions we would be like Mexico working for penny's an hour no holiday pay no OSHA so before you go blaming the unions maybe you should take a history lesson!!!

As far as the made in the USA stuff goes I finally installed my rebel wire kit and very well made and easy to use!!!! Looking forward to my next build to use them again!!!! Thanks

 

I am a strong propponent of Made in USA and Made in Canada. I hope as everybody continues to read labels on auto parts packaging AND food labels, we can continue to throw some names of products both made and marketed in America onto this thread! Just maybe we can become self sufficient again. My praises to those who are making a successful attempt in manufacturing in both US and Canada.There is ALOT of true talent here!

P.S. By a previous post, i'm a self-confessed total idiot.

 

This is a political problem. They should just put more taxes (if there is even any taxes) on all foreign goods. Make it more expensive to export work than to hire in-house.

 

Recently bought a set of Dougs Headers.I believe they're still produced here.

http://www.pertronix.com/prod/ex/dougs/default.aspx

 

Like always blame it on the unions!!!!! just like you said if it wasn't for the unions we would be the China!!

 

Great pic ems!! There's a great example of American made those guys make their own dies and what they told me was the use us steel!!!

 

I've always thought that every time one of our manufacturers goes to another country that the value of the business plus the cost of the worker's salaries along with the company's profits (which are recycled into that country, not ours) should be deducted from the the amount of "Foreign Aid" this country churns out to them annually. That way we reduce the amount of money the US "blows" on a lot of these countries. They in turn would raise their prices or look to the company to make up the difference hopefully making it not as attractive to manufacture there.

Wouldn't it be great to not only have a Billet Proof activity but a China Proof too?

Just my .038 cents worth. ( adjusted for inflation )

48 Poncho

 

I just think there are too many people stuffing their pockets for it to stop any time soon. But yeah, if there was any way I could buy all USA made stuff (and afford to do that) that would be awesome!

There was a program on 60 Minutes I think it was. And there was a group of people who set out to build a house made COMPLETELY out of materials made in USA on a budget you would have building a house with "common" foreign materials. They actually proved that you could do it, well within budget. They had to search and search to find everything, but it's out there... I wish I could find the video!!! Does anybody else remember this? And maybe I got some details wrong, correct me if I didn't remember clearly.

 

All 3 of my Fords were built in Michigan...

 

Yeah, I'm just not sure with Ford because of the Mazda connection as to who is making what. I know that the Fusion has a Mazda counterpart as does the Focus, I'm just not sure who's making the other.

As far as "my" comment (not Beaner's - stop quoting him) regarding the unions and costs connection. First off I said that it was part of the problem not the whole problem. Secondly, judging by what some attitudes, corporations are not suppose to profit but that "run of the mill" assembly line worker should be making twice what a highway worker slinging blacktop in 100 degree heat or 3 to 4 times what someone working 10 times harder at a McDonalds makes.

I have a real problem with a guy making $28.00 p/hr (regular time) up to $56.00 p/hr (on Sundays & holidays) to just put a dipstick into a hole while a guy busting his ass at McDonalds is getting minimum wage. Don't argue this one, I know this first hand.

Now back to the topic.......

Cragar will be completely making the SS by sometime in 2013. Currently Cragar makes all of the hoops here in the US as well as the chrome plating and assembly. The center spoke section is currently being outsourced but is due to be moved to the US once the US facility is up and running making the Cragar SS a completely Made in the USA wheel.

 

Entertaining but not surprising TV news story on the Harley part. It was interesting to note that when caught using Made in USA packaging on a China sourced part, Harley Davidson made noises about changing to correctly labeled packaging, not finding a USA manufacturer for the part. The man interviewed for the story (a long-time Harley owner) said that he had to replace the parts (saddlebag latches) every year or so because they failed.

 

Be Cool radiators are made in Bay City, MI. And my old Fords were made here, too!
My kids were made right here in my house .

 

Be Cool radiators are made in Bay City, MI. And my old Fords were made here, too!
My kids were made right here in my house .


It don't get anymore American then that!!!!