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Not having read all the backed up messages in awhile, I risk repeating what others may have already said . . . but for me what worked on Mr. Finzzz was I bought an Optima battery at one of the swap meets, and the guy also sold plastic reproductions of tar topper batteries, complete with REAL Mopar plastic screw caps to fill the six holes in the top. The Optima just slides inside the repop plastic box and hides! With the Mopar label Roger describes. Looks real enough unless you look very closely - and the Optima is designed for vehicles that don't get every day use and are good at cranking very cold engines. So far so good! Mark mjh '57 fury - Mr. Finzzz
eastern sierra Adj Services <esierraadj@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Well, the concensus was to pay $250.00+
(with shipping, and waiting, and
paying to install electrolyte) and get an Antique Auto Battery , which
looks like a real-vintage Mope-guy, or, to get some other flat-top
battery and install a Tar-Topper 'shroud' over the thing (which costs
$25.50-delivered), which would look like some sort of generic vintage
fill-cap battery.
Called the local Generic Motors dealership (there being no-longer a
small-town MoPar dealership, here--long, sad story) and confirmed that
they had a suiatble Group 24 battery with 630 CCA, for $109.00.
I was hoping that it would look like my 20-year old guy, but nowadays
batteries come with recessed carrying handles.
The parts-guy took appropriate sympathy on me, and sold me that battery
at WHOLESALE
$82.00, so, it looks like my net-cost, after almost 21 years of service
on the erstwhile battery, will be $88.36 (incl tax) + $25.50 =
$113.86, for a 60-month battery.
So, introduced his
new appliance to Horrie, and he responded by starting
right up!
IIRC, somebody on the E-Pay has been selling battery logo
vinyl-appliques; if anyone has a reference to him, I'll probably buy a
'sticker' and put it onto the Tar-Topper.
I mentioned to the Tar-Topper guy that he should pay a licensing fee,
and mold-in proper battery logos on his shrouds.
He replied with some lame excuse-up-front expense involved, but, I think
that if he were to offer that prospect, a lot of people already having a
generic shroud would 'pop' for a proper-appearing shroud (especially for
less than $30.00 bux!!!!), and probably put a REAL 'hurtin' on
Antique Auto Battery's business!
Neil Vedder--waitin for the Tar-Topper to arive!
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