A visit to Stephen's Performance

I once bought a pair of rocker panel cutoffs for a volare from one of those types of businesses. Think it was "Texas acres". Anyways it was a similar place to Stephens and the old R&R salvage in that back in the day they ran huge full page ads in all the Mopar mags. I'd called a few of them, these guys had what I needed.
They bragged how clean, straight, and like "brand new" the ones they had, were, after all they were in hot, dry Texas After all.....
Being as how I live in the road salt capitol of the world near Chicago and had never been to Texas, only had heard the stories of how many 30+ year old vehicles were actually still on the road daily that weren't rotted out (supposedly), I figured I couldn't go wrong in buying parts from them.
They seemed a little expensive even back then (close to 20 years ago) but hey I was (supposedly) getting original rust free parts so I went ahead and bought a set of rockers from them.