Brief History of Seth and Quality Classic Parts

1972 – While rodeoing in Sonora California Seth spotted a 1956 orange big window that changed his life forever.

1973 - Seth started gathering parts for the truck he had purchased while rodeoing and found out they were everywhere.

1973 - He started selling the excess parts he found such as back bumpers that were highly sought after. He could find these in hideaway wrecking yards in  little rodeo towns.

1974 - Seth's mom typed up his first catalog.

1975 - Seth had his first swap meet Booth at Pomona.

1975 - He placed his first ad in Hemmings motor news. Only Chevy truck at that time.

1976 - He produced the first reproduction parts for 1955 to 1959 trucks. Gas tank grommets and vent door rubber.

1977 - He Started traveling all over the west to GM dealerships buying obsolete parts.

1978 - Opened a retail store in Santa Barbara California.

1978 - He took his first trip to the Carlisle PA swap meet to buy parts.

1978 - First ad in Truckin’ Magazine. Only Chevy truck at that time.

1979 - Seth's first magazine story in Classic Rodder magazine and Truckin’ magazine.

1981 - He produced the first ever Chevy GMC Truckin’ nationals in Ogden Utah.

1982 - His was the first company to produce classic GM truck bumpers.

1982 - First year selling parts at Carlisle Pennsylvania.

1983 - Opened store in Buena Park California.

1983 - Seth put a big rig on the road to work swap meets from coast to coast.

1985 - Seth added second big rig on the road to be able to hit all the major shows.

1985 - He jumped into the monster truck scene with a classic twist Skoal Bandit monster truck 1958 cameo.

1986 - He built the second monster truck in 1966 a Fleetside Copenhagen Skoal Crusher.

1988 - A third monster truck was produced 1972 Fleetside AMPM Boss.

1989 - Seth moved to a 40,000 square-foot warehouse in Santa Ynez California

shipping out over 200 packages a day with 30 employees.

1990 - He secured discontinued tooling from GM and began to distribute two out factories in the United States.

1992 - Over 1200 parts in our catalog were produced off the original GM tooling or tooling that we had produced exclusively.

1993 - 1957 old iron 4WD & off-road project truck. Built in our Buena Park store. Two years of stories and a great sweepstakes giveaway.

1995 - 1957 Truckin’ magazine sweepstakes giveaway truck. Built in our Buena Park store.

1999 - Seth sold Golden State pick up parts.

2003 - Seth still had the bug to provide hard to find and quality parts for GM trucks so he started Quality Classic Parts.