eventually getting to the point where Schirmer figured it might be easier
to figure out how to get a licensing deal with Chrysler and just try to
make some authentic replacement radiators himself.
“I’d buy ’em, and restore ’em and re-sell them,” he said. “Mainly
because I worked at the Chrysler dealer, I was looking for Chrysler
radiators. At the time I never really knew enough about the Fords or the
GMs ... I just kind of gravitated to the Chrysler stuff, because I knew
which ones I was getting calls on.”
Glen-ray is the only licensed producer of authentic, numbered and
logoed big-block MoPar radiators. That means using dyes to stamp
each radiator correctly to make sure it matches the car’s original
radiator.Schirmer and Glen-ray had the repair work on the MoPar muscle car
radiators dialed in. They knew how to do that just fine. The tricky part
was not only getting a license from Chrysler to reproduce numbers-
matching radiators with all the correct numbering and logos, but also