I bought the parts catalogue rack below and now I'm looking for parts catalogues to fill it. A lot of what I find are in blue binders. Did these racks use a bound book or was it loose leaf? I have found bound books but they aren't drilled to fit in the rack. Someone told me that Chrysler didn't produce books for these racks after 1972. Any information would be helpful.
Yeah, you're going to have to search around and find old stock stuff or hit swap meets. Something I'd recommend looking for is a Hollander interchange book. Those are totally cool.
You'll need to find the loose leaf catalogs. The ones used in dealerships do show up from time to time. Those were supplied with updates as needed- the wiser parts folks left the superseded pages for reference. Case in point- you'll find many of the 1970-1971 combined books are "missing" some pages that applied to 1970 only.
If you round up the pages, the covers may still be available as: Parts Binder & Tabs 81-690-0700G (PB-301)
So then loose leaf would work ok in that rack, that's good to know. It's hard to find anything that's not in a blue binder.
@benguin (https://forum.e-bodies.org/mlist/benguin_3334) thanks for you help.
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These came from the USA. I don't think Chrysler Canada ones were different than USA ones but you never know. Canada had the 1971 Swinger 340 for instance.
I remember my dealership used the blue binder ones. Not sure when Chrysler went to microfiche, mid 70's maybe? I do remember my Partsman trying to find stuff on the microfiche and saying to heck with it and grabbing partsbooks from beneath the counter lots of times, even in the 80's.
I love paper anything. I have too many brochures, parts manuals and factory repair manuals.
We used similar rack back when we used HOLLANDER manuals at the yard. I could send you a manual or two Murray (free) but ship in on you and they are big/heavy. Not exactly MOPAR but.... :notsure:
Media mail is designed to reduce shipping on heavy things like book. Easily 30% less than regular post. If they still have it. I haven't shipped a book in a long, long, time.
I wanted to try to buy a thermostat housing for the 'cuda at a Chrysler dealer last year rather than aftermarket. Parts counter looked in the system and couldn't find anything back that far, then disappeared and came back with the parts books to look it up. Wonder how my dealerships still have old books around and would any give them up?