Re: GM open element air cleaner with a chrome base?
 

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Hi Eric:
I honestly cannot remember but the car had a 4spd muncie and I am positive a 780 holley factory if that is possible in 72??
I am not up on the small blocks
take care
Joe

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Mac, wasn't 1972 the last year for the LT-1 engine in the Vette and Camaro..?? so a 780 Holley would have been the carb...

wilma

Re: GM open element air cleaner with a chrome base?
 

Eric, Its possible that the base and fittings got chromed by someone after the fact. That end fitting looks like a small block rear block fitting

Re: GM open element air cleaner with a chrome base?
 

OK, for comparisons sake, here is another OE open element air cleaner which belongs to the same person the mystery chrome one does.

https://www.yenko.net/attachments/283...blackbase1.jpg

It appears to me to have essentially the same shape (dimples & whatnot) as the mystery chrome one.

The chrome on the base of the 1st air cleaner looks a LOT like the cheap flash-chrome that GM used on the lids and valve covers of the day.

Re: GM open element air cleaner with a chrome base?
 

(Close-up of the air filter element...just because)

https://www.yenko.net/attachments/283...blackbase2.jpg