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Ames used to be a great place to go for Pontiac parts. Right down the road from me(relatively). I even toured the operation a couple times with Steve Ames. I've bought tons of parts from them. But Steve sold the company and now somebody else runs it. I called a few weeks back to order parts and got some idiot girl answering the phone who knew NOTHING. When she couldn't help me with a simple order question I asked to speak to someone else nicely. She was a little perturbed and put me on hold for too long until eventually she came back on again. "You said you have a 66 GTO, right?". At that point I had wasted more than enough time. I hung up and called OPG. A lot of other vendors seem to be slipping up these days on the customer. I recently started having all kinds of trouble with Ecklers for Corvette parts. No problem, Chicago Corvette and Paragon got the next order. I wouldn't write off Ames completely, but second sourcing your parts shouldn't be out of the question by any means.