How to Get lots of Parts from Europe

So as some of you may know I am rebuilding a 1973 Triumph Stag for school. While the Stag is rather rare here in the good ole US of A it has a huge following across the pond, which is good because that means a lot of the parts for the car are available (Rimmer Brothers), and this is good. The problem is that the parts are as aforementioned across the pond.... so now that I have started to really work on my car I find my self wanting to get some things from across the pond ( GAZ shocks, Poly bushing set, so on) so the question comes to how do I go about getting these to my side of the pond cheaply ( I might be crazy, but I have a budget, if I didn't I'd be eccentric) I know buying everything all at once is a good method, but what other techniques work? Thanks Ryan

Find a half cut and ship that. Tends to be cheaper, and you get piles of stuff. Works with Japanese cars at least.

For a Stag, the average one sitting at the back of somebody's garage will already be a half-cut.

I actually had an idea for a business a while back, sort of an "item accumulator" brokerage. Buy your parts, send them to me, I'll store them for however long and then when you've done enough shopping to make it economical, I pack them into a container and ship it off to America/wherever for bulk rate. The problem is I couldn't see how to make more than a pittance on it, probably the only market would be the really high dollar ground-up resto guys who are after impossible-to-get stuff and don't need anything in a hurry.

Sorry this doesn't help.

Jay wrote: I actually had an idea for a business a while back, sort of an "item accumulator" brokerage. Buy your parts, send them to me, I'll store them for however long and then when you've done enough shopping to make it economical, I pack them into a container and ship it off to America/wherever for bulk rate.

We are looking for this type business for all the parts we import from China at work. We have 6 factories that require us to put a full container of parts together. We might not order for 8 months and develop holes in inventory, so it would be ideal if all six factories got together and put 1/6 of their parts into 1 container and shipped to us on a monthly basis.

Please don't get me started on some of the quality we get....

In reply to VonSmallhausen:

I had some bumpers shipped from the UK a couple years ago really cheap. I think the company was called Parcels to Go, although the parts ended up being delivered to me by FedEx. Two complete Triumph 2000 bumpers for $40. I don't think it gets much cheaper than that, but the seller arranged the shipping for me.

www.parcel2go.com is a broker in the UK that allows you to book a discounted shipping (ie, at the courier's corporate rate rather than the regular joe rate). You can use that to book pickup as well - I've just shipped a bunch of stuff to people that way.

That say it's probably not going to much cheaper than what a regular spares supplier in the UK will charge you. Shipping from the UK is fairly expensive, using parcel2go or interparcel is slightly cheaper that Royal Mail but it's still going to be expensive.