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amcrules00
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Excellent Terry, exactly what I was looking for. If you don't mind me asking what was the price of the battery cables? Were they custom made to your specs or from their catalog? If you would, post a couple of picts of the cables too please? Thanks so much.
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amx39068
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All depened on your budget and your tolerance for grief and aggravation. For 99.99% of the people, the AMark topper will be just what they need. I have picked up an original and unused battery and one of the repros over the past couple of years and both had cracks in them and were unusable. I will not use them again.
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Dan Curtis-Owner and CEO AZ AMC Restorations; Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/amcmusclecars/ & Curtis Real Estate Development
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Burnished Brown
AMC Nut Joined: Oct/14/2007 Location: Illinois Status: Offline Points: 439 |
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Here are the pictures of the battery cables that Antique Auto Battery fabricated for me. They are not in any catalog, so you need to tell them excatly what you are looking for. These are for a 1971 Javelin/AMX. Thank you to my friend Steve Guhanick for the pictures of the original battery cables from his '71 that I used to order my set.
The Positive Cable should be 8" of live length of wire. Antique did make a mistake the first time around, so be sure you do not have them duplicate what they originally shipped to me. The Negative Cable should be 26" of live length of wire.
You can see that the reproductions are pretty close but not exact. They are still better than what I have on my car now and better than I have seen on most restorations.
The Positive Cable was supplied with a shorter shrink tube on the end that connects to the starter solenoid. The Positive Cable terminal that connects to the starter solenoid and the Negative Cable terminal that connects to the alternator bracket as a ground differ slightly from the originals too.
I paid about $45.00 total for both plus shipping. Turn around was within days.
Picture of an Original AMC Positive Battery Cable for 1971 Javelin/AMX
Picture of Original AMC Negative Battery Cable for 1971 Javelin/AMX
Picture of Original AMC Negative Battery Cable Connection for 1971 Javelin/AMX
Picture of Reproduction Battery Cables from Antique Auto Battery
Picture of Reproduction Battery Cable Connections Close Up
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Terry
1971 Burnished Brown Javelin/AMX 1971 Mustard Yellow Javelin/AMX 1970 Bayshore Blue AMX 1970 Bittersweet Orange Rebel Machine 1969 Beale Street Blue Javelin SST |
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amcrules00
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Awesome tidbit of info right there Terry, I've seen a few of our vendors selling these cables in the past for well over two hundred a set(just plain nonsense)and they didn't even come close to anything as original looking as these are. I think you just let the cat outta the bag, they look like very nice reproductions to me. Thanks much for making this happen and of course, sharing the info here. You done good.
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scrambler1000
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what model interstate batt did you use?
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amx39068
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Just their regular old 24D series. I put the Interstate logo up against the fender and painted the top black like an original battery and it looked great after installing the correct battery hold down for 69
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Dan Curtis-Owner and CEO AZ AMC Restorations; Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/amcmusclecars/ & Curtis Real Estate Development
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billd
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This post is now "stickied" - please "keep it clean" and post correct dimensions, photos, etc. on correct cables, batteries, etc. so it can be a nice clean accurate future reference.
This one comes up quite a bit............ good posts.
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amx39068
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what does being stickied mean?
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Dan Curtis-Owner and CEO AZ AMC Restorations; Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/amcmusclecars/ & Curtis Real Estate Development
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bikerfox
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Dan,
According to wikipidia.org, "A sticky post or sticky topic is a type of post or topic in an online forum that is "pinned" near the top of the forum index, enhancing its visibility and preventing it from being buried by newer posts."
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1969 Rebel SST (1970-1987)
1968 AMX (2005-2011) 1969 SC/Rambler (2011-2019) 1970 Javelin (2019 to ?)"Jane" |
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sidewinder
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Well sticky me....learn something new every day!!....
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Chuck Page ,AKA Sidewinder
1968 "BLACK CHERRY" Javelin Previous owner of 2013 Heritage Cup winner 1970 BBO AMX |
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