Steering Column Woes and Questions - Connector, Lower Bearing, and Coupler

Went to the oldest Chrysler dealership in the area today and the parts dept spent a good bit of time looking for the parts or supercede parts for them, no luck. So I'm going to buy the new connector online, but the only repop I can find for the bearing is the plastic body one. Has anyone else sourced the metal body bearing as in the pic in my originating post? I could hit the local Mopar yard but think I'd end up spending a bunch of time yanking steering columns out of half-buried 50-year-old cars only to find out their bearings are not usable.