Dear mid-60s Buick
"interior decorators,"I last left this topic all the way back around Thanksgiving with the boastful claim that I had bought the Part's Place reproduction of the brake pedal pad with the Buick disc brake emblem. I got perfectly reasonable service from the Part's Place and had the pedal before the end of November. What I desperately lacked was -
time! Today circumstances basically forced me to get this pedal out and take a good look at it. With my camera always handy, I took these photos which include the old OPGI pedal for comparison purposes. Here is the front of both:
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If you look carefully, you can see that the Part's Place pedal pad is substantially thicker. It is made of tougher rubber than the OPGI pad. The Part Place pad feels much more like the OEM pad. Here is a close up of the disc brake emblem:
It looks to have a similar metallic sheen to the OEM pad that was on eBay a few months back. Finally here is the back of the two pedal pads:
Once more the additional thickness of the Part's Place pad is clear. Also you can see that the Buick disc brake emblem is secured on 3 points instead of the 2 points for the OPGI pad.
I'm pleased with purchase and hope to install it over the weekend sometime. Since this part really doesn't belong on a 1965 Buick, I prefer to use a reproduction. That way I'm not depriving someone restoring a original Buick of an OEM part they really need. In addition, every reproduction part you buy is encouragement for the manufacturers to continue to support Buick!
Thanks for your feedback on this item!
Cheers, Edouard