Correct Restoration Battery for my Z - Page 3

**mockingbird812** · #1 01-22-2018, 10:05 PM

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Originally Posted by NorCam

Funny you say that as the first thing I said when I heard the mfg of the batteries was being mismanaged was "who has the tooling"...maybe I should buy them out. He laughed and said there 100's of thousands in tooling and molds and that it was all in Mexico. I then said if it's in Mexico, then someone else owns it and I'm sure they'll make batteries to order. That's when he brought up the Licensing and additional costs.

I'm going to look into this further and have a few coals in the fire now.

Sweet! Good luck and keep us posted!!!

**Salvatore** · #2 01-23-2018, 05:44 PM

Replying to Graeme's post. We will have to live with battery toppers and that is the way any judging will have to be I guess. If it does not exist we can't buy it so...................

**enio45** · #3 01-24-2018, 01:58 AM

again, this is a CF

we make everything else for these cars, but we can't get the right batteries?? WTF

**Salvatore** · #4 01-24-2018, 12:16 PM

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Originally Posted by enio45

again, this is a CF

we make everything else for these cars, but we can't get the right batteries?? WTF

maybe nobody thinks there is a "real" market for them Fast Eddie.

**ALLZS** · #5 01-24-2018, 02:14 AM

X2

**enio45** · #6 01-25-2018, 01:37 AM

sammmmmmy, i not talking about just camero's but all the other cars
that used delco batteries....so there has to be a good demand - i would think.

**Salvatore** · #7 01-25-2018, 03:25 AM

yea, you would think. I have 2 and will need to replace my camaro soon. I got atleast 5-6 years out of the one in the camaro.

So, what are we going to do Fast Eddie?

**1967Z28** · #8 01-25-2018, 04:14 AM

I just got one of them in early November prior to MCACN. Must have got one of the last ones.

**SeattleCarGuy** · #9 01-25-2018, 03:32 PM

This is terrible news. I love those batteries. The one in my '62 409 has been in there for over 10 years and still works great!

Unreal · #10 01-27-2018, 03:29 PM

Do you need to have a "real" battery in place for judging? Reason I ask is that I have a display battery (lead posts, but no guts) that I was going to install a modern battery into.
Not going to do that, so just wondering if you can drive to the show with a Diehard or something, and then put the display battery in for judging.

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