For over 20 years, we have been located at 9101 East 22nd Street in Tucson
Chirco Performance and Restoration
Chirco.com sells Air-cooled New and Used VW parts for Off-Road, Street and Performance Air Cooled VW`s and Dune Buggy`s. Chirco Performance & Restoration, has been a leader in the air-cooled VW parts industry for over 25 years.
Joe Chirco has been a Volkswagen fan since his early teens. While still in high school, Joe started selling VW parts at weekend swap meets in Tucson, Arizona as early as 1979.
In his spare time he would drive to Los Angeles and meet with parts vendors, purchase parts, and return home to pass on the great deals to local VW addicts.
In 1984 his business had grown to the point where a work location and warehousing was needed. Thus, the birth of Chirco Automotive, Inc., which includes a 6 bay Service Department at 9101 East 22nd Street in Tucson.
Since then, Chirco Automotive has relied heavily on walk-in trade. Business boomed when Chirco began advertising in 1990 through several national VW and Offroad related magazines. The birth of the Chirco mail order department was celebrated as a result of well designed display ads and great deals, making the name Chirco nationally known.
In early 1998 Chirco launched its first website, www.chirco.com. While only listing a minimum of Chirco`s inventory, the website has attracted parts buyers and VW owners from around the globe..... even the motherland, Germany. Chirco is now known world wide as a shipper of quality Performance, Restoration and Custom parts for VWs, Buggies and Sandrails. With the aid of "in house" UPS shipping Chirco has become a stream-lined and customer oriented organization with the most efficient shipping system available for speedy deliveries. A far cry from the good ole days at the swap meet.
Over the years Joe has not only offered the best that VW parts vendors have to offer, but he`s also developed a large private label of manufactured products for you to choose from.
In 1998 Joe began the massive and time consuming project of constructing a completely comprehensive VW parts catalog for Chirco. Chirco Performance and Restoration (CPR) was born. The hard bound catalog hit the streets in the summer of 1999.1999 proved to be a banner year for Chirco with the development of this new website. It has been a labor of love. Joe wanted to get back in touch with the community and has launched a site that not only provides customer and technical support, a complete inventory listing of parts for sale.
In 2001, just when life was going well. Joe purchased the assets of his Tucson competition, Off-Road Buggy Supply. This purchase came with a ton of quality used parts. So you guessed it, Chirco now has Used VW Parts. What can be next for Joe?
Joe`s commitment to you is to provide the best selection of top quality products at the most competitive prices with the best possible customer service. Our staff is committed to serving you Monday through Saturday to help answer that hard-to-answer question or to place an order for the parts you need.
2002 - 2005 was spent improving our online store and streamling our mail process. We kicked of a new Chirco.com and focused on the inventory control through reports that our computer systems provide to maintained high levels of parts that move quicker. We also worked with our vendors to speed up special order parts. Bye the end of 2005 mail order revenues have exceeded counter sales.
2006 We had really started to notice the strong demand for used parts for restoration projects. So during the summer we found and purchased three VW junkyard across the country. This caused us a real problem with storage. We tried to combine them with our excisting used parts inventory and we ended with piles.
2007 - Well you can guess that we decided we needed get our used parts inventory orginized. We broke ground on a garage for the storage and restoration of used parts. Our goal is to get these parts also online on the 3rd generation of Chirco.com launched August 1st of this year.
2008 - Has been a whirl wind year so far. Here are some of the projects we have completed. Chirco Amazon Store Chirco Media Blog Chirco You Tube Video`s Flicker Photo Gallery Google Photo Gallery
We have tried this year to update all of the existing sites we have. Again, it`s the great customers we have that keep us motivated to strive to be better than before.
Contacting us is easy -- Just call us at our toll free number:
1-800-955-9795 6 days a week. Monday through Friday 8:00am to 6:00pm, Saturday 8:00am to 4:00pm (Arizona time).
Chirco.com is on you favarite Social Media Sites
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Chircocom/35903656778 Myspace http://www.myspace.com/chirco_aircooledvw_parts Youtube http://www.youtube.com/user/chircovwparts Twitter - Joe Chirco http://twitter.com/ChircoVWParts Twitter - Don Wiggins http://twitter.com/Chirco_don
