Maritime Auto Parts

Maritime Auto Parts is a full service auto recycler and parts supplier of new and used automotive parts. 

This year’s Atlantic Nationals Car Show held in Moncton in mid-July featured some of the best classic cars Canada has to offer. The grand prize drawn on the last day was for a refurbished 1932 Ford Roadster. Now picture this; the year in which that car rolled of Mr. Ford’s assembly line was the same year Ray Fillmore incorporated Maritime Auto Salvage Ltd. in Truro, NS. It’s been 80 years since Mr. Fillmore started Maritime Auto Salvage, and to sit and think through what changes and adaptations an auto recycler would have to undertake to last over the past 80 years is actually quite interesting. This is a recount of Maritime’s history over the past 80 years, and what’s in store for the future

I doubt when Mr. Fillmore started in 1932 he had any of the ’32 Fords in the yard yet, but imagine what he did have! Most likely a whole bunch of Model Ts (60% market share at one point in the ‘20s), but also Model As, Studebakers, Packards, Buicks, Oldsmobiles, Cadillacs – image if you could just only walk through that recycling yard today what you would see. What would have been the hottest selling parts through the 30’s? It was right in the middle of the Great Depression, so I’m guessing anything to keep your car moving.

After the 30s came WW II. No production vehicles were manufactured in the US from 1942-1946. Notwithstanding the obvious tragedy and loss brought upon by the war, I could not imagine what the Mr. Fillmore’s inventory would be comprised of.