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Most manufacturers of anything don’t maintain parts
for anything over five years old.

That sure has not been my experience. Recently bought
a carb kit for my Sears snowblower that's 15+ years old.
I regularly find any part I've needed for my 33 year old
classic Mercedes. And just found parts for my Stihl chainsaw
that's 40 year old.
In the latter case, not all the parts are still available new, but
that's an extreme case. And even then, used parts show up
on Ebay. I can't recall when I've had a
problem finding a new part for something that's worth repairing
that's 10 or 15 years old. The key is "worth repairing".
If it's a $25 appliance, well, that's a different story.

That worth repairing must apply to Fords. A coworker had a Ford truck that
was about 5 years old and something broke on it. I think it had to do with
the
electric windows, but not sure. Anyway he could not get the part from Ford
and had been around to a lot of junk yards and none were available.

Now if he had a Modle T he could probably get almost anyting for it.
Not from Ford, but many aftermarket places.




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I have had to give-up on a model of something or another
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