Judging Question: Battery

[Rich Beauchamp]

Hi, All. Well, I'm going to have my 82 judged at St Louis, and from the Chapter meet I found I lost 30 points due to a replacement Delco battery. Has anyone heard of a correct replacement for an 82? Also, the clamp and bolt don't have a ridge to capture the current battery, is it OK to just have the clamp installed even though it serves no function with my battery?

Thanks in advance for your help!!!!!

[Chuck L.]

Re: Judging Question: Battery

Rich--
I went through the same scenario with an 82 at the Florida Regional last year except I lost 50 points because my replacement battery was not a Delco. I was told by the judges that the best I could do was get a Delco replacement and save a few deduction points as apparently you did. They advised me original replacements are not available. A friend of mine has been diligently searching for the same battery, and the last I heard he was not having any luck. Maybe someone out there can help. Chuck

[John H.]

Re: Judging Question: Battery

The battery only carries 25 originality points, and the Standard Deduction Tables indicate a 50% deduct for a correctly-sized Delco replacement; wonder why you lost 30 points?

[Rich Beauchamp]

Re: Judging Question: Battery

Not sure about the 30 points, but glad I had the Delco!!! And I'm not about to snivle about 5 points. Guess I'll keep my eyes out here, and the usual catalogs in the future. And spend a little more time getting the wax out of the tail light letters! It just seemed an easy way to get a load of points with little elbow grease.

Oh, well..... Thanks for the responses.

Rich

[Jack H.]

Hum....

My copy of the '78-82 Flight Score sheet (Revised 2/2000) provides 30 originality points and 10 condition points for the battery. Standard Deduct table provides:

10% deduct for correct appearing reproduction lacking plant/date code marks

30% deduct for reproduction batteries differing from original in minor detail

50% deduct for correct size/correct post configuration Delco service replacement

100% deduct for all others.