Product Description
Coverage back to about 1966
482 pages
Aftermarket parts catalogs are quite helpful if you are trying to find parts for your car, or you have a bunch of parts you are trying to identify. This catalog is 8-1/2" x 11" and is USED, but is 100% COMPLETE. That means it is not in pristine condition. Being used would include scuffs, scrapes, gouges, pages that are dog-eared, folded or slightly torn, or slight damage from dirt, soiling, moisture, mildew, mold, etc, and maybe doesn't even smell very good. Any damage will not affect readability or the information in the catalog. You should be buying it for the information it contains, not how pretty it looks.
Please be aware of some **limitations** of these catalogs, however.
The majority of these catalogs do NOT list parts that were no longer available, as of the PRINT DATE of the catalog. Most of the time, if they stopped making a part, they simply stopped listing it. There are a few companies that were an exception, but by and large, if it became obsolete (no longer manufactured) before the print date of the catalog , it's NOT listed.
What this means to someone looking for one of these catalogs is that it usually is desirable to find one printed somewhere near the time period you are interested in. I've found that most effective is a catalog printed about 3-6 years AFTER the specific year of a car.
For example, if you've got a 1965 Impala, you'd probably be better off purchasing a 1970 catalog (if available), than a 1965 catalog. The 1970 catalog will tell you if that part will also fit 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969 or 1970 Impala, as well as 1965 or earlier. Oftentimes, this can make a big difference to your search for the "needle in the haystack" that is the part you want. Chances are real good that a part this company offered just 5 years earlier will still be available and not obsoleted. However, if you buy a 1984 printing of the same catalog, they may not even show a listing for a 1970 Impala, let alone 1965.
And as usual, there are some exceptions. In the late 1980's and early 1990's, when some aftermarket companies found out there was a large enough marketplace for "antique - classic" cars, some of them expanded their catalogs to re-include older model parts that they had all but ignored just 5 years earlier. They still manufactured the part (or had a sizeable number in stock that they didn't want to destroy), but previously they figured their dealers with that type of clientele would retain old catalogs to search out these parts. After all, a 300 page catalog with mostly the newer, more popular items, was much cheaper to print than a 600 page catalog with all their stocking items for both newer and older cars. This is especially logical if they did not believe a substantial enough marketplace existed for them to heavily promote the older items they still produced. Fortunately, we proved them wrong.
The result is that a catalog from the early 1990's may indeed have more coverage of older parts than a catalog from the same company printed in the mid-1980's. But, and this is a BIG BUT! - the newer a catalog and the further back you see coverage, the skimpier that coverage usually is. I have listed the earliest year of coverage along with the print/year date of the catalog. But, the year I've listed as earliest is just from a quick glance through the catalog, and just because one make has coverage for a particular year, doesn't mean any other makes do. Case in point: gasket catalogs - 1932 Fords are listed, but no other car until 1934, and some makes not until 1937. So, don't assume that if I say a particular catalog has listings for parts back through 1940 that you'll find listings for every 1940 car - it might have listings for 1940 Ford, but not 1940 Chevrolet or 1940 Dodge or 1940 Hudson. If you email me, I'll be happy to look in the catalog to see if the year/make you want is actually listed.
1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984
Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, LaSalle, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Chrysler, Dodge, DeSoto, Plymouth, Ford, Mercury, Lincoln, Edsel, Crosley, Packard, Studebaker, Hudson, Nash, AMC, Rambler, Willys, Jeep, Kaiser, Frazer, Henry J
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