...try to follow the Gryge's advice, getting a "new" old radiator out of a similar car in a junkyard.

Then, when that failed because junkyards up here don't have too many "muscle-car" era Yankmobiles any more (or in your case, after you didn't try his route at all -- you really don't have to, since you're a guurl), I'd do what Scott K. and Steve L. are telling you to do, namely buy the parts from places that typically have that kind of thing for sale.

I didn't try this route because I've been through many of the junkyards here (via my older-man friend), searching for other less complicated parts from a car like mine, like the window gear, and had no luck. Most junkyards around here just do not have my type of car anywhere. The best junkyard I've dealt with is in Arizona, I think they have about 3 of my type of car, but our concern is the radiators might be rusted or bad since they don't remove parts from the cars till you ask for them. Plus the shipping isn't cheap, my fender was expensive. I mean heck, my car is 37 years old, and most parts don't hold out that long in a junkyard.

And since I don't have anyone to put in the parts other than Dobbs, the only part I would have purchased would have probably been the radiator, provided I could have found a site that looked trustworthy that sold new ones.

And then, since I'm a guy, and I know the guys are right that switching radiators on a car that old is a pretty easy job, I'd do it myself. You, still being a gurrl, are still excused from this -- but that's what that husband of yours is for, right? (And, hey, if I were you, and he wouldn't or couldn't do the job, I'd divorce him.)

As I told Ashton, I know a lot about cars, but I'm not very adept at doing much to them. There's a few things I can do, and I can do my own basic maintaining of the car (i.e. check fluids, air in tires, etc etc.), but I have little physical strength.

John however, isn't car adept. He might have the physical strength, but he doesn't know a lot about cars. It's truly a myth that many people believe all guys should know about cars and all gals probably shouldn't. Not all guys are into that sort of thing. John didn't have a father who did sports, mechanics or those sorts of things. He had a father who did computers, and well, that's what he did, both for fun and work.

Me, I was interested in mechanical things. I watched with fasincation as cars were worked on, handing the tools to my friends and helping out whenever I could. So I think I'll keep John, Conrad, cause what he doesn't know about cars he makes up for in 100 other better ways. ;)

Brenda