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Mark -
I would think that the battery that was installed at the factory was
probably from whatever supplier the factory contracted with. If the battery was
replaced at the dealership, for whatever reason, it was one of the Mopar logo
batteries that you see in the Options and Accessories catalog.
Ron
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 9:35
AM
Subject: Re: [FWDLK] Miss Belvie's
battery..
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already has a superceded number for the 1956-58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
----- Original Message
-----
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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