You need to find a full service old time parts store not a chain store that hires people that know nothing and can not find parts for anything past 10 years old.
On Long Island there is still at least one auto parts store that was opened in 1948 and the sons and grandson still work there and know the old autos.
I brought down my old brake hoses from my 1946 2 ton and the grandson, age 40, made up three new brake hoses while I waited.
