Our story
1976
It started in a panel van
Roland and Lynda Dempster started the business in 1976 and incorporated the following year. The Victoria Street location in Barrie is still the heart of it, with their sons Chris and Greg now running the company.
Names and faces have changed. Roland's idea of a community minded, customer friendly aftermarket store has not, and the industrial lines added since carry the same quality and pricing he set out to offer.
- 1976Roland and Lynda start out of a panel van.
- 1977The business is incorporated.
- TodaySecond generation, serving Simcoe County from Victoria Street.
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A family business that answers its own phone.
You get the same people at the counter each visit, and they know what came off the shelf for you last time. That is the part a catalogue cannot print.