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Obviously, I have no idea if it was a "generic" battery or otherwise - I just saw no logos. One could've been there and covered in muck colored grime, for all I know. I didn't mess with it too much - didn't want to get in trouble - since we weren't supposed to touch her at all, and the security guards were flitting all around us. We've all seen the pics that show the caps to be whitish. I was amazed how easily the caps spun off and back on. The real caps are not glued into the fake plastic tar-toppers. They are screwed in just like for real. The guy I bought the plastic case from makes appropriate sized holes in the top of the repop battery case, and you just screw those caps on as if they belonged there! The same guy also supplied me with my supply of authentic Mopar brand caps. Don't know where he gets 'em, but I make it a point to
stop by his booth at every Portland Swap Meet to ask him if he has found any more . . . . Mark mjh 57 Fury
eastern sierra Adj Services <esierraadj@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Mark, it seems weird that there would be a completely "generic" battery
built by some company without any logos on it, unless, Chrysler had some
sort of contract with that company which would have stipulated that
there be no advertising on it, for installation in line-production
vehicles.
Any idea/opinion what color the generic battery caps were?
Any tricks involved in cutting out the fake-caps and gluing-in real
battery caps, into the Tar Toppers?
Neil Vedder
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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:35:21 -0700
From: Mark H <pizoboom@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [FWDLK] Miss Belvie's battery..
To: L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
This is one detail I actually paid pretty close attention to in Tulsa. A coupla years ago I bought one of those Ultima batteries for Mr. Finzzz and one of those plastic repro battery cases that supposedly look like the actual batteries from the fifties, so you can fool the car show people into thinking you have a real fifties battery (right!). Anyway, one of the nights when our small group of vandals broke in and took pictures with Miss B and the security guards at the indoor car show, I was curious as to whether my repop battery case looked like a REAL original, so I peeked into the engine compartment to look at Miss B's battery. I moved it around a little - and
saw no logos anywhere. I spun off one of the plastic filler lids (I found actual real Mopar lids for use on the repop plastic - adds to the authenticity!) and was surprised to see no names or logos on it either! It made me question whether the Mopar filler lids I have were true to the cars, or some sort of battery accessory - you wouldn't think they would've put many dealer add-on accesories to the car they were going to bury . . . . Mark mjh '57 Fury Sutherlin, OR
Jan & Roger van Hoy <vanhilla@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: I sincerely doubt that Pic #3 is the identical replacement battery for a '57
Dodge or Plymouth. Why?
[1] The curved "m" emblem for MoPar wasn't used until later.
[2] The book from which you took the photo
says Pic #1 for 1956-58 Chrysler
Prod.
[3] My 1955-58 Parts Book already has a superceded number for the 1956-58
Dodge/Plymouth/DeSoto 50 amp battery, 1818959 [wet] and 1818932 [dry].
That, coincidentally, is the number for the 1956-58 Chrysler 50 amp battery.
In other words, replacement # does not match original #.
In addition to the parts book, I looked thru my '58 DeSoto and '56 Plymouth
FSM's; the battery pix are the same as the Parts book, none of which show
the label.
So, for those who strive for absolute authenticity... fughettabouttit !!!
Or maybe buy one of the #1 batteries from Neil's vendor pic.
--Roger van Hoy, Washougal, WA, '55 DeSoto, '58 DeSoto, '56 Plymouth, '66
Plymouth, '41 Dodge
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From: "Eastern Sierra Adjustment Services"
To:
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 11:18 AM
Subject: [FWDLK] Miss
Belvie's battery..
>I think that George McKovich PM'ed me, to say that the MoPar logo, on
> Ms. Belvie's battery (as depicted on the attached Antique Auto battery
> folder)
> was seen to have been placed/oriented toward the fender, instead of its
> facing
> inboard, toward the engine compartment.
>
> BTW, Style-3 is OEM-correct for Group 24 1957+ cars.
>
> The placement of the battery terminals pretty much determines how the
> battery
> is to be installed, on the inner fender.
>
> Ron Water's pics, from last week, clearly(?) showed that there was no
> visible
> logo facing the engine compartment, AND(??) that the battery caps may have
> been white-colored.
>
> I'm wondering what color to re-paint the yellow "Delco" fake-caps which
> appear on the Tar-Topper-fake-battery-lid, after I remove the "Delco"
> embossments FROM the
fake-caps.
>
> Neil Vedder
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