R59 top post battery
 

On the original 1969 batterys where the caps yellow - white or red also the delco wording did it match the cap color or was it just black

Reddish orange originally..
The word DELCO was black and not painted when installed into a vehicle on the assembly line.
Over the counter taken out of the box batteries had the word Delco painted that matched the caps color.
Although my car is detailed restored to assembly line stock,I painted my DELCO wording to match the caps,as I prefer that intricate detail.
And no,it's not a topper.. :)

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Good info Rick also car looks great!
Wasn't color representative of Cranking Amps w/ Yellow being less CCA's than Red also Green less than yellow?
On replacements, were all R-Series Red and all Y-Series Yellow as I was wondering in this recent Topper thread?:hmmm:
https://www.yenko.net/forum/showthread.php?t=155337
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~ Pete

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Thanks for the info

It looks better with Delco painted red.

Do the “eyes” go green/ yellow?

I assume you're talking about the Y-55's because I don't ever recall a Y-59. So yes the Y-55's are yellow and are less cranking amps. They are also reverse polarity (as they call them here) with the terminals reversed and would technically be a correct battery for a SB 69 Camaro for instance. Negative is closest to the radiator and where the hole is found on the core support for the little ground wire to attach off the negative cable.

I've always had a correct battery in our Z with the terminals reversed (technically the R59 wouldn't work anyway unless I modified the original battery cables because the ground wire to the core support isn't long enough to reach from the other side of the battery), so I just recently made my own Y-55 topper as there are none produced at this time. I started with an R-59 topper and switched the polarity insignia. My wife found a place that sold the correct decal that even came with a warranty card that I thought was funny. I painted the yellow accents myself even though the kit came with yellow decals. Pretty happy with the results.

Lotsa relevant battery info.
http://www.camaros.org/underhood.shtml#Batteries

I put Green Painters tape under mine, I simply bought a NOS Delco Eye cut it down and popped it in.