Engle's A & T Parts

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Hello All,

Anyone have information on a supplier named Engle's A & T Reproduction Parts, from Middletown, Ohio ? In 1988, I bought 6 very accurate '30-'31 Model A hub caps from them. Thanks
 
I think you may be referring to Felix Engle who made good stuff, I don’t think he’s still alive.
Regrets if wrong!
It was sold and operated as Ahooga parts
Shut down amidst financial problems as well as delivery of product
Long gone and to my understanding tooling and dies scrapped
Too bad
 
guam2250 said:
Hello All,

Anyone have information on a supplier named Engle's A & T Reproduction Parts, from Middletown, Ohio ? In 1988, I bought 6 very accurate '30-'31 Model A hub caps from them. Thanks
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As Bill said above, Felix did sell to Dale at Ahooga which filed for bankruptcy last year. As I understand it, the tooling was scrapped by the bank during the repossession. Many reproduction parts that we were used to having are longer available due to this closure.
 
When I was a practicing CPA I worked for many bankruptcy trustees as accountant
It would seem to me that the bank, likely as creditor, did poor due diligence in not search for best value of tooling. It could have easily been sold to another manufacturer.
The bank may have got their money but left others dangling or “without”
Not unusual if they were creditor in possession. They got theirs; too bad for others......just a possibility
Another bites the dust
 
How sad, and what a loss. In 1988, I bought 6 of these for $58.00, and have an un-cashed refund check for over payment on the shipping!!! Never seen a higher quality repro hub cap.
 

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my understanding of the situation is an interested party came out to meet with the bank and to discuss terms for an offer. After touring the facility the interested party noticed that a lot of the secondary tooling was either broken, severely worn out, or just plain missing. The bank had no idea of what he was talking about, regarding missing tooling. He walked away from the table with out even making an offer as to replace this tooling would have been cost prohibitive.
 
secondary tooling would be anything needed to go from the main stamping to the finished product. For example it could be a jig to hold a piece for drilling holes, it could be a part that take multiple dies to make the part complete... Lots of different things get considered as secondary tooling, but none the less it's need to make a final component.
 
jak said:
secondary tooling would be anything needed to go from the main stamping to the finished product. For example it could be a jig to hold a piece for drilling holes, it could be a part that take multiple dies to make the part complete... Lots of different things get considered as secondary tooling, but none the less it's need to make a final component.
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Thanks Jeff, and kinda interesting. None of those fixtures would likely help anyone else without those dies. I too lost some items that I had loaned to Dale & Steve that were never returned to me.
 
I sent (at my own expense) a 28-mid 30 CCPU floorpan to Ahoogh A & T for a pattern about 5 or 6 years ago. I called them 5 or 6 times, about once a year, to see if they were making progress on the tooling to die stamp duplicate floorpans. They kept stalling me and I never got a new die stamped floorpan they promised me or my original floorpan back. However, they did make some good die stamped sheetmetal. I believe Steve left the company a year or two before they went bankrupt. I think he was the main guy key to the companies products. That probably doomed the company.
Rusty Nelson
 
katy said:
I think, over the years, most of us have loaned stuff out that never found it's way back.
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i had a guy come by weekly for help and advise, loaned him a homemade $5 tool and never saw him again. I was good with that! I had never charged him a dime.
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BRENT in 10-uh-C said:
As Bill said above, Felix did sell to Dale at Ahooga which filed for bankruptcy last year. As I understand it, the tooling was scrapped by the bank during the repossession. Many reproduction parts that we were used to having are longer available due to this closure.
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Brent,

MAN O MAN, whoever fed you that line was so full of it they must of had brown eyes.
It just goes to show you; you cannot trust everything you hear from the rumor mill.

So, I still have the tooling, I never lost any tooling, none of it was ever scrapped, no bank repossessed anything.
I did have covid. I did almost die and probably should have according to my Dr. He told me, normally a person that had what I had, they next step was the morgue. So I thank GOD everynight for saving my life.
and as for parts, I created a website myself, I have some inventory. I did lose all of my stamping presses but that was because I was in the hospital 4 times that year and I couldn't get them out of the building. But whoever told you the above hog wash probably did get that memo.
And I have been selling parts since the beginning of this year, 2026.
But, to alleviate the rumor mill, I may have to stop selling because I have been trying to get an infection cleared up from my bad leg and it is not working and it has been 6 years of dealing with it and I may have to have my leg amputated. The next week may tell one way or the other because I am having an MRI to see if the infection has gone to the bone or not.

So, in closing, don't believe everything you hear. If you have a question, just ask the person involved.
 
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