Right...and that's what I'm getting at, you're not just walking in to a random parts store, picking the oldest guy in the store and saying I need this for a Zamboni and magically he's telling you 'get a hub from a 92 dodge'...and if he does, go buy a lottery ticket. You still had to do the leg work, you still had to train, and the only thing you're really saving is the stupid look on his face and having to answer 2wd/4wd next time you go in there...that is until the next thing you need that you haven't trained him on yet. In an autoparts store, sure you might get a guy that is good with 350 chevies and you might think that means he's awesome across the board, when in reality he'd fall on his face with a sbf...and that assumes you walk in there knowing a 3/4 race cam isn't a grind spec and know you should pass on 'that old guy'. And then you want to talk about the old guy knows how to use the parts book, awesome, but that's where I think you can probably beat the parts book with the internet. I actually rented out my 80-97 ford MPC's, electrical schematics, body books, OSI manuals, sourcebooks, etc to the Ford Dealer in Edenton for some local 'fleet' repairs they were doing for a few farms...their resources only went back 20 years. I showed them electronic/online sources that would be much easier, direct and faster than trying to translate the Ford lit, but in the end they wanted me to take their money, 4 months later got my books back.
