Thank you both so much.
Bob - If what the shop told me I needed as brake rod support bearings is really "strut rod bushing" its no wonder I couldn't find the part listed as such.

markusfmeyer - I don't have a garage any more, and I'm getting too old to crawl under that car in this cold weather! And of course the shop price is high - this town is just full of overpriced mechanics. If I could find a decent, competent, reasonably priced one I wouldn't be broke all the time.