Where to get refills for old style Anco blades?

I got caught in the rain today, and discovered that my wiper inserts were rotten. No problem just wheel into the parts store and get refills, right? Wrong! Everywhere I went had a black plastic generic wiper blade for sale, or a cut to fit thing that will not work with short 13" blades. I have the original Anco chrome wiper blades on my 66 Ford truck, and just want refills to fit them. They were very common when I was selling parts back in the 70"s and 80's. What are we doing for "traditional" wiper refills now?

 

I do hope you went to a local napa supplier. I got a pair for my 53 Dodge, the counter guy did have to do some part book searching, but they were right in the warehouse.

 

Try your local NAPA store. I was able to get wiper blades for my 1948 Plymouth there.

 

Ask for the ANCO catalog at your local parts house, the vintage application and sizes are listed in the back section.

 

Just to let you guys know.... All the parts stores are dropping the wiper blade refills.... I just got done buying some for my o/t mustang... The parts guy sez the wiper companies are losing $$$ so now we forced to spend more $$$ for the whole ***embly..

 

I will check with NAPA this week. No luck anywhere else this week end. Looks like we are running into another obstacle in dealing with old style car stuff! I never thought about having to run black plastic **** on my cars for wipers! I just ***umed refills for the old Anco and Trico blades would be available forever....

 

Last time I needed to change my wipers, all I could find was complete ***emblies, so I just bought one 26" blade, took the rubber out, cut it in half and fitted it to my wipers.

 

NAPA had mine. They were old stock though.

 

carquest

 

macs has em... part # 17528-13

 

NAPA,,,But Rain-X works great also. HRP

 

I just use the rubber from new blades. Cut it down and make up a couple if you have the longgggg blade and short old ones.

 

I get mine here in my garage.

Jim

 

That is cool!

 

Hi I have an NOS stock of Anco Wipers Refills for sale, but I have a problem as I could not locate the catalogue. I can post photos of what I have available

ANCO WIPERS 2501 / 2506 / 2801 / 2806 / 3303 / 3308

I would appreciate any help in locating which vehicles these would fit

 

When all else fails, try eBay. I got a rare pair off eBay last week.

 

Ebay has em all, I just got some for my 51 Mercury, 56 Chevy, and 52 Chevy.

 

Rain-X used to work great on my car until I put a visor on!
I always see tons of new blades at swap meets too.

 

i to have a old anco roll around box. i went to work one morning someone had thrown it in our dumpster. our cleanup guy saw, knew i would want it and drug it back out. it know sits in my garage with all of my specialtly type tools in it. timing lights, dwell meter things like that. that brings me to something else. my 16 year old son has finally taken a interest in cars. as i pull out old stuff like that he asks me i always wondered what that was