This weeks interview is with Jim Schmidt, Founder of National Parts Depot and restoration guru. Jim started on his path towards NPD at the young age of 14 when he decided he needed to restore a Ford Model A. He found an 1928 Model A sports coupe in a salvage yard and proceeded to tear it completely apart. Many parts for severely rusted and required breaking them just to get them apart. When Jim went to put the car back together he found out that many of the fasteners to restore the car correctly were not available. 

Being an entrepreneur at heart, Jim found sources for the parts and had parts made if he could not find them. He started selling these as bolt kits for the proper restoration of Model A's. At age 17, he approached JC Whitney about carrying his parts in their catalog and almost overnight he was swamped with orders for the kits...