I went to an O'Reilly store to get an accelerator pump for my 600 cfm edelbrock carbeurator. I had already looked it up on line and knew what I needed and that they were fairly universal. The guy behind the counter couldn't find it on the computer so he dug out the books, I showed him the numbers and everything on my phone. He didn't quit until he found what I needed and said he would order it in. Fast forward a week and I finally had time to get there, its an hour drive from home, and they had already sent it back. So I asked the other guy behind the counter and was told I would need the individual carb number and wouldn't even try very hard to look it up. I drove halfway across town to MOPAR, walked in and skeptically asked the scrawny book nerd looking kid about it. He walked right back to the shelf full of them and found exactly what I needed. Moral of the story is that it depends on who you get. It wasn't O'Reillys fault for not stocking everything imaginable under the sun, or the counter help not knowing every imaginable part ever built by everyone. However when the one just flat had it in his head that he wasn't going to look, that really turned me off. IMHO the american exceptionalism line is mostly a rally cry. I think we should strive to build things as good as the Germans have a reputation for and fight better than France lol.
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