About Us - Ecklers Automotive Parts Our Story Top Eckler's traces its origins back to 1961 when founder Ralph Eckler fabricated a one-piece hood for a crash-damaged 1960 Chevrolet Corvette in his father's Moline, Illinois, gas station, and subsequently opened a one-man body shop in nearby Rock Island At that time, he had no way of knowing that his fiberglass molding efforts would be the start of a business empire Throughout