22Nov 2016
By opgiAuthor no comments Chevy Featured Products

Deluxe 1968-72 El Camino Bed Surround Molding Kit

  Original Parts Group Inc. (OPGI) has announced the availability of new RESTOPARTS® brand Bed Surround Molding Kits for 1968-72 Chevrolet El Caminos. Although GM no longer offers replacements for these highly visible El Camino exterior trim components, Original Parts Group, Inc. has come to the rescue with brand new and complete Bed Surround Molding Kits. Each Deluxe kit is identical to the original GM factory equipment and is manufactured specifically for 1968-72 Chevrolet El Caminos. These ultra-high quality kits…

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11Nov 2016
By opgiAuthor no comments Buick Chevy Events & Appearances Industry News Pontiac

SEMA 2016: Exploring the Show

To say there were a lot of cool GM cars at the 2016 SEMA Show would bit a bit of an understatement. It seemed there were nice GM classics of all descriptions everywhere you turned. Many of them were built using OPGI parts, too. Here’s a look at just a few of the many clean vintage GM cars that stood out at the Show this year. Hector Cisneros (Owner) and his crew at Bill Dunn One Stop Shop, located in…

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9Nov 2016
By opgiAuthor no comments Buick Chevy Events & Appearances Industry News Oldsmobile Pontiac

SEMA 2016: OPGI Back at SEMA

  Celebrating over 35 years in the business of manufacturing and retailing GM restoration parts and accessories, Original Parts Group, Inc. (OPGI) once again made its presence known at the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) Show held each November in Las Vegas, Nevada. After several very successful decades as a displaying manufacturer, OPGI marked this year’s attendance with an all-new, upgraded presence for 2016 and beyond. OPGI returned to Las Vegas this year with hundreds of the most popular General…

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21Oct 2016
By opgiAuthor no comments Car Spotlights Chevy

OPGI Customer Car Spotlight: 1966 Chevelle SS

In response to the ongoing Customer Car Spotlight series on this blog, Original Parts Group Inc. (OPGI), Customer Mark Bernhardt sent in these great photos and a brief history of his own customer car, a stunning 1966 Chevelle SS. As you can see, the car is a clean interpretation of the pro-touring theme applied to a thoroughly restored ’66 Chevelle. The photos show there are many modifications underneath the skin of this numbers-matching SS car that aren’t immediately apparent at a first glance.…

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6Oct 2016
By opgiAuthor no comments Buick Car Spotlights Pontiac

OPGI Customer Car Spotlight: 1969 Buick Riviera

Original Parts Group Inc. (OPGI), Customer Frank Nagle is the proud owner of this clean 1969 Buick Riviera. This Riviera is obviously another example of the many really nice cars we see here at OPGI’s Seal Beach, California headquarters building. We asked Frank if we could share photos of his car here on the OPGI Blog and he not only said “yes,” but also added that he would write up the history of the car to share with our viewers as well.  Without…

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16Sep 2015
By opgiAuthor no comments Buick Cadillac Chevy Featured Products Industry News Oldsmobile OPGI News Pontiac

RESTOPARTS®: OPGI’s In House Brand

If you are reading this blog, you are already familiar with Original Parts Group. For nearly 40 years OPGI has been the supplier of restoration and high-performance parts for GM classic cars. But did you know that in addition to OPGI supplying the best parts sourced from the best names in the automotive industry, OPGI also manufactures its own line of high-quality restoration parts called RESTOPARTS®? (more…)

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19Aug 2013
By opgiAuthor no comments Car Spotlights Pontiac

Project GTO Tribute to Fallen Soldier Nears Completion

Although there are many ways to honor our nation’s fallen heroes that have fought and died in Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation New Dawn, a New York restoration shop has stepped up to take an automotive-themed approach to remembering the sacrifice of one local soldier named Major Jeffrey Calero who was killed in Afghanistan in October of 2007. Like far too many of our soldiers, when 34-year-old Calero of Queens, New York, lost his life on the…

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28May 2013
By opgiAuthor no comments Industry News

Decoding General Motors Body Style Designations

General Motors vehicles have long been produced on shared platforms with each platform or body type fitting into designated GM vehicle “families” that use alphabet letters to separate them. The alphabetic codes used were always single letters and way back in 1946 GM began using a standard set of body style codes consisting of just the four letters A, B, C and D. Four different letter designations were all that was needed at the time because GM’s assortment of vehicles…

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6May 2013
By opgiAuthor no comments OPGI News

2013 OPGI Catalogs Now Available

Original Parts Group Inc., the industry’s leading supplier and manufacturer of restoration and high-performance parts for classic GM cars since 1982, now has nine different editions of its free 2013 restoration parts catalogs available. The catalogs include nearly every part needed to restore a classic Chevelle, El Camino, Monte Carlo, Skylark, Riviera, Cutlass, GTO, Grand Prix or Cadillac. From interior and body parts to engine parts, sheet metal, bright trim and everything in between, OPGI offers the widest selection and…

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25Apr 2013
By opgiAuthor no comments OPGI News

Take the New & Improved OPGI Website for a Test Drive!

Remember the days of slow-to-load, boring websites that made difficult work of finding what you wanted in endless lists of similar-looking part numbers? A lot of things have changed since then and the latest version of the completely revised Original Parts Group website is no exception. Instead of hunting through thousands of tiny part numbers, the new OPGI website delivers an enhanced user experience with a modern new look that incorporates the latest Web technology to bring you the best…

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