I guess I'll have to carry half of the Moparts crowd in my back pocket next time I go to the yards to pull parts.

I've got nothing to gain by telling tall tales concerning parts pulled off cars nearly 20 years ago. I must have been lucky more than once with the exact same parts on the same kind of cars.
Maybe it was a local department thing. I dunno. I went looking for white M bodies. Very few of them had what I wanted but I did find and pull the parts myself.

Fact your little heart away. I really don't care.