Autoparts 2000 is part of the PartsWorld franchise.<\/p>\n
A social media post about the storefront\u2019s closure was met with an outpouring of comments sharing memories of the store over the years and messages of support.<\/p>\n
\u201cA really big thank you to Whanganui for their support throughout the years \u2026 it\u2019s been a blast, really,\u201d Chris McDonald said.<\/p>\n
He began working in the auto-parts industry at 18. Since then, he had seen the car and auto-parts industry change significantly, becoming more streamlined and specialised, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s no more junkyard dogs … as they used to say.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said New Zealand used to be a \u201cdumping ground\u201d for old British, European and Australian cars. In the 1980s, the influx of Japanese cars began which was \u201cexciting\u201d.<\/p>\n
Autoparts 2000 has been focused solely on Honda parts and cars over the past few years, and will continue to focus solely on Honda in its online store.<\/p>\n
McDonald said the business had an environmentally friendly focus as it continued to specialise.<\/p>\n
The choice to move online was down to the cost of running a business, the increase in online sales and a personal choice to take a step back.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re definitely streamlining everything \u2014 keeping it small and family-run.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Autoparts 2000 is part of the PartsWorld franchise. A social media post about the storefront\u2019s closure was met…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[11689,70447,74,15408,82191,138,18509,6789,9060,3011,2686,111,139,69,1642,17711,2849,3109,74908,2735,82192,6845,1883,21083,1530],"class_list":["post-115374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-11689","tag-70447","tag-after","tag-almost","tag-autoparts","tag-business","tag-closes","tag-closing","tag-decades","tag-four","tag-moving","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-online","tag-parts","tag-physical","tag-public","tag-serving","tag-store","tag-storefront","tag-vehicle","tag-whanganui","tag-whanganuis","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}