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Anybody bought a vintage battery lately? #2750169
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Time to replace my group 27 and it looks like the vintage / antique battery market is still in limbo. Jim’s Batteries, Turbostart...Both look like they aren’t in production.

Has anybody bought one recently?

Re: Anybody bought a vintage battery lately? [Re: Pacnorthcuda] #2750193
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Are they still selling the battery “toppers”? Not what you are looking for but they do the job at a glance.

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Originally Posted by Montclaire
Are they still selling the battery “toppers”? Not what you are looking for but they do the job at a glance.


Yea...they do, but those are bit....cheesy. I may just put a modern battery in the car while I do the gutting of the case and odyssey 925 install.

But if there are true resto batteries available I’d rather just do that.

Re: Anybody bought a vintage battery lately? [Re: Montclaire] #2750200
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If your heart isn't set on buying a reproduction battery, this might work for you:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Mopar-Battery-S27M-red-1966-74-Caps-kit/312326370230?

This seller has kits for green, yellow and red caps, along with matching decals.

Mike.

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Re: Anybody bought a vintage battery lately? [Re: moparmike1] #2750216
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I have them on my cars....everything depends on battery you have, but the caps and the decals are very nice

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Re: Anybody bought a vintage battery lately? [Re: moparmike1] #2750218
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Originally Posted by moparmike1
If your heart isn't set on buying a reproduction battery, this might work for you:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Mopar-Battery-S27M-red-1966-74-Caps-kit/312326370230?

This seller has kits for green, yellow and red caps, along with matching decals.

Mike.

Thanks for the idea. I just bought 2. I have used NAPA batteries and peel the stickers off....now you have a plain black battery !

Re: Anybody bought a vintage battery lately? [Re: BH27G1B] #2750262
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After having 3 fail in 3 different cars.,,all 3 were done in less than 2 years max
I gave up and just bought a groupe 27 Mopar battery and never looked back

Re: Anybody bought a vintage battery lately? [Re: gtx6970] #2750288
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As Mopar Action is fond of saying, "looks stock, cleans clocks."

Re: Anybody bought a vintage battery lately? [Re: Montclaire] #2750303
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THanks for the info. I was looking for a yellow cap battery, butthat looks decent. What current battery case looks close enough to the old Mopar ones?

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I bought a Group 24 battery top cover, and a decal set that also included caps.
Taking the top cover with me and checking a couple places, the Autozone Duralast Group 24 battery ($139) had the best fit.
The Group 24 batteries I checked elsewhere were actually smaller, so the fake top hung over by a bit.
That figures: they were cheaper !

My restoration battery drops to 12.2 after a week just sitting on the workbench, because the PO let a cell get pretty dry.
I don't know how old it is, but my previous resto batteries (about 15 years ago) lasted about 5 years or so.
I figure it's better on this car to not have the battery venting underhood like the OEM style, now that paint work is so expensive.

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I wish they would reproduce something similar to a "topper" but with sides as well. That way, it just slides over a modern battery, looks the part, but is a modern battery.

A battery is a consumable item and these OE appearing ones can't be bought at every corner store and certainly not for $100 or so. I know I wouldn't want to shell out $250-$300 for an OE appearing battery and only get a couple years out of it.


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Re: Anybody bought a vintage battery lately? [Re: That AMC Guy] #2752246
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I decided to gut my case and install an odyssey pc925. The batt is on order from Amazon. I am first going to make sure the odyssey kicks over my 10.2 : 1 440 then I will proceed...

I lot of us wish we could just buy an empty resto case!

I also have the caps and stickers on order if I want to go that route....plan B.







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