[oldandtired]

wspiker...Drake sells products that have their name on them and they advertise them to be correct for the applications they sell them for. Some of the parts they advertise do not fit the vehicle they say they are for and never would have fit because they assumed the part for a commercial vehicle and the passenger cars are the same which they frequently are not. Their battery trays they made for a 39 are one example where not only did they not have the same shape on the side, but the battery bolts for the pickup would not work on the passenger car tray, yet Drake marketed them for both passenger and commercial vehicles. Their 37 pickup grill stainless when it came out fit very poorly in the corners and was very difficult to get to lay flat resulting in a significant gap in the upper corners between the stainless and the grill. I have one of their stainless pieces on my streetrod. The streetrod has literally never been rained on, has only been wet when washed, and is kept inside the shop. The "stainless" rusted within two years. What is annoying is that they pretend you are the only one with a complaint, they insist they are right when they are not, and if they take back one of their incorrect parts, you pay the shipping even though they are the ones who made the error. The fact that Drake has made contributions to the hobby far in excess of the contributions of hobbyists is not relevant to those of us who purchase his products only to find they are defective, incorrect, or do not fit and then we are treated very rudely if we call their customer service.