hemidenis - 2013-01-04 4:06 PM

Wow, you can never know everything about FL cars……
It is the first time I see a Chryco NOS hose or the catalog, so I would like to see the "expert" on this thread denying the accuracy of my reproduction.
I'm sure that only dealers sold the original Mopar hose, like today's dealers are the only stores carring genuine items.

Those screw type clamps are something complete new for me. Thanks for sharing.

Just to confuse things a little further, it is my belief that both your paper labels and the part numbers stamped onto the hoses themselves are correct. For their specific applications. Paper labels were, as one or more of the previous posters has suggested, used on Service Parts, i.e. the parts you could buy over the counter from the dealer. The hoses with the numbers pad stamped on them are Production parts, i.e. those used by the people in the assembly plants who actually built the cars.

As to the clamps in the ad in the 1960 pass car parts catalog, the double wire clamps are correct for cars prior to the Forward Look era, i.e. postwar through at least 1952 if not 1954. The spring, Corbin, clamps were a later release, used beginning around the time of the FL. They were both a cost save as well as faster to install on the line. I don't know for sure, but it's possible the hoses arrived at the assembly plants with the clamps installed slightly inboard of their final locations on the hoses, to also speed up installation on the assembly line.

hemidenis - 2013-01-05 4:54 PM

According to the add "Lower inventory investment" to me mean that dealers don’t need to carry hundred of molded hoses in the store, right? So that mean that at least in Canada, molded hoses were available at the dealer.
About the yellow lettering hoses, sorry but I have to see at least one, I saw molded hoses with yellow lettering but with the pentastar logo which make them an 80's production hose, not a truly FL era.

hemidenis - 2013-01-06 5:55 PM

I found another molded hose with label form the DPCD era, just pre Forward look and they are only 3 possibilities how this hose is for sale today so make your pic:
- One is that a factory worker stole this particular from the Chrysler plant
Always a possibility, but only in a city where Chrysler had an assembly plant.

or
-Molded hoses were actually offered for sale at dealership parts counter
Depending on the application, molded hoses were the only part available from the dealer. In other applications for FL cars, a flex hose may have been released.


or
-the “experts” are full of ….
We've already seen that....

soiouz - 2013-01-04 10:10 AM

I have this one here in my parts stash, found at an old dealership, on the shelf:



I also believe these labels were affixed to parts sold over the parts counters, and not put on hoses at the factory.

Chrycoman - 2013-01-06 6:37 PM



Do not understand that one. That would mean a dealer would have to get labels from somewhere, printed with the correct part number, and then stick them on.

The labels had to be on at the parts warehouse or there would be problems keeping track of orders being readied for shipment. Never mind stocking the parts at the warehouse when they arrived from the supplier.

Found another item your local Chryco dealer could supply back in the mid-1950's.

Chrycoman - 2013-01-06 6:37 PM



Do not understand that one. That would mean a dealer would have to get labels from somewhere, printed with the correct part number, and then stick them on.

The labels had to be on at the parts warehouse or there would be problems keeping track of orders being readied for shipment. Never mind stocking the parts at the warehouse when they arrived from the supplier.

Found another item your local Chryco dealer could supply back in the mid-1950's.