Hi, Warren here. Thanks for the add. I'm a 60's Impala guy and a 30+ year VCCA member. I'm heavy into the research of these cars. (impalas.org is my website)
Anyway, I found the forum when I was looking up some brake shoe springs. My father and I recently bought this large lot of old NOS Chevy parts (most pre 1976) from a dealer that closed 10 years ago and some of the parts had fallen out of the boxes. I was searching a number on one of the boxes to find a picture of what goes in it and found a thread on here where a couple of members were having trouble finding the same springs! There are actually several sets of different medium truck brake shoe springs from these years that I've seen so far. Are none of these reproduced for the 40's and 50's trucks? I've found some of 3694516 (green color) and 3694799 (black color). Is there a demand for them? A friend of mine had the 68 Caprice hidden headlight springs reproduced by a company in small runs of 15 sets (6 springs each). I could have him look into it. I felt bad for the guy who said his truck was laid up for 9? months because he couldn't find the correct springs! I've attached a pic of the set of 4 3694799 springs I came across today.
It was a small Maine dealership so I've come across quite a bit of stuff that's medium truck such as transmission, brake, suspension, rear axle and 235 engine parts. I dig all the posts about the members here working on these trucks. If there is interest in parts like these for these trucks, I can post stuff I find here in a thread in the parts for sale forum. I'm guessing a lot of this stuff is not reproduced but not sure how in depth the work work goes when you restore them or even fix them up. I know I'm new here so I want to make sure I'm going about it correctly.
