Bob, here is a phone number for a yard in New Mexico that I saw on another message board.....looks like they have a lot of 50s stuff. Have your buddy give them a call

North Fifty-Four Salvage Incorporated
7066 Hwy 54 70
Alamogordo, NM 88310-9137
(505) 437-4188

We might be going over that way later in the Month of August.

mike in tucson