Parts Store Inexperience

You have to understand the big chain parts houses make 99% of their revenue from off-the-shelf parts for late model vehicles. They are not catering to people working on old muclecars. So if a pimply-faced kid with a computer can meet the minimum requirement to move stock for the least cost then that's how they're going to do it.

You may find a Napa or some small town place with old guys or people who care every so often, but they are getting pretty rare. Except at our local Napa, where they sponsor a race team and know me, I haven't asked for help at the counter for anything on the old Mopars for the past ten years. Might as well get used to it, cause it ain't gonna get any better.