Now, after ordering the commonly available sway bar links (at about $8 each), to complicate things a bit more I have just come across a company (Krager) which sells exactly the model of links that were on my car (so, they were not "homemade links" after all, as someone suggested earlier). You can see them here:
http://www.partsamerica.com/ProductDetail.aspx?mfrcode=TRW&mfrpartnumber=18069&parttype=78&ptset=A
The only problem is that they cost a fortune ($27 each plus shipping) compared to the ones I have already ordered. Surf-N-Turf stated earlier that the original ones in my car are about 1/4" longer than the ones commonly available (the ones that are on their way to me...)
So, now the $64,000 question is: what the heck am I supposed to do? Try to install the $8 ones, or is it more advisable that I get an identical replacement for the ones (at $27 each) that came originally with my car?
Rino