Auto Silencers (Tynemouth) has closed
Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2012 8:20 am
Sadly I see that Auto Silencers closed a month ago. It was a car parts /accessory shop in Tynemouth (nr Newcastle upon Tyne) that had been there since 1970's or maybe earlier, and supplied to the local garage trade as well as to individuals. I think it had been run by the same family (I think the proprietor was Dave) all of that time.
I valued them as they always took the trouble to look things up - and had kept old catalogues for reference. They still had stock of lots of old car parts - and I was very lucky indeed to get a piece of long obsolete exhaust for my 1983 Datsun.
This is a service that Halfords or Eurocarparts and the like will never replace.
I guess that the (only) good news is that the rare old stock from around the extensive premises will have been bought up and hopefully will appear on Ebay etc in coming months.
Long live such shops - I guess that they are really struggling at the moment - so let this be a lesson to us all now to use them as much as possible (else lose them like Auto Silencers and many others).
Ed
I valued them as they always took the trouble to look things up - and had kept old catalogues for reference. They still had stock of lots of old car parts - and I was very lucky indeed to get a piece of long obsolete exhaust for my 1983 Datsun.
This is a service that Halfords or Eurocarparts and the like will never replace.
I guess that the (only) good news is that the rare old stock from around the extensive premises will have been bought up and hopefully will appear on Ebay etc in coming months.
Long live such shops - I guess that they are really struggling at the moment - so let this be a lesson to us all now to use them as much as possible (else lose them like Auto Silencers and many others).
Ed