Re: Anybody bought a vintage battery lately?
[Re: Montclaire]
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03/08/20 05:08 PM
03/08/20 05:08 PM
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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. 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.
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Re: Anybody bought a vintage battery lately?
[Re: migsBIG]
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03/08/20 11:09 PM
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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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Re: Anybody bought a vintage battery lately?
[Re: topside]
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03/15/20 05:28 PM
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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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