Tar Top Battery - Source?

[Rick A.]

Subject says it all - anyone still making/reproducing a GENUINE DELCO tar top battery??? Looking for source for my 1963 - took hit for the one I bought from Restoration Battery

[Joe L.]

Re: Tar Top Battery - Source?

Rick-----

The only other source for reproduction batteries that I know of is New Castle Battery of PA. Whether theirs are any more correct than Restoration Battery I couldn't tell you.

[Rick A.]

Re: Tar Top Battery - Source? - THNX Joe! *NM*

[Louis F.]

Re: Tar Top Battery - Source?

What was there objection with the battery. I bought my battery from the same vendor, the judges never said a word.

[Dave Suesz]

I had one from...

Antique Auto Battery. The only source I know for the 1955-only "Delco" battery. I gotta buy a new one, damn thing turned up with two dead cells last month, only been in the car fourteen years. The link below is for their "Corvette 1961-66 DC12 Delco" battery.




Antique Auto Battery

[Joe S.]

Re: Tar Top Battery - Source?

Rick,

Got mine from http://www.antiqueautobattery.com/ They supply Paragon and others. About $150 plus Date coding added for $10. It's a beauty.

Note that the tar is not real other than in appearence.

Joe..




Joe's 63 FI Convertible

[William C.]

Re: Tar Top Battery - Source?

New Castle battery is still real tar design, If anyone cares.

[Dennis C.]

Thanks, Bill... I wondered if

anybody was still making the real thing... DC

[Chuck S.]

New Castle Battery Link

I spoke to the main guy at New Castle about an R89W repro back when everbody was paying insane prices for the few remaining NOS batteries. A few years later, they delivered. I don't know how their R89W does in judging either, but he was a heck of a nice guy and he understood the problem.




New Castle Battery

[Rick A.]

Re: Tar Top Battery - Source?

they took off being a REPLACEMENT! don't have judging sheet in front of me as I gave it too Tony so he has it when I take the car back in this weekend

[Rick A.]

Re: I had one from...

their battery is a PLASTIC TOP also, just like Restoration Battery - they look like the original battery and have the correct caps BLACK with yellow letterd, etc. but not a tar top

[Rick A.]

Re: New Castle Battery Link

will talk with them, but looking at their weblink, the top looks plastic just like the ones from Restoration and Antique!

[Mike M.]

Re: New Castle Battery Link

rick: why not "paint" the top of the plastic lid with reaL TAR. save tar you don't use, bring a goose down pillow and we'll "roast" the augusta midget. mike

[Mike M.]

Re: New Castle Battery Link

PS- Dr Ed Gurdjian, who began the Corvette battry resto industry some 20 years ago, had tar tops. he may have some left over but i lost his address. was up around erie,pa last i heard. Maybe bill clupper has his address. mike

[Rick A.]

Re: New Castle Battery Link

Mike,

now is this "TAR" the asphalt we put down on our roads????? having never seen a REAL tar top in years, this is why I ask!