Feature Cars at the 2012 Grand National
Feature cars are very well represented at the Grand National this year:
3 7-up cars
3 92 cars
1 Yellow Black
1 Triple White
Question: Has anyone seen a low mile all original 92 or 93 that has the red rubber positive battery terminal cover? I've seen those on low mile Cobras but never on a feature car. One of my judges has a 92 and he says that all cars came with that cover on the positive terminal. I'm not sure that's correct.
There was a 92 near my car that only had 6500 miles. It was the often heard about little old lady car that the new owner just happend to luck into. He nor the original owner did not even know it was special. Other than an aftermarket AC compressor it was bone stock down to the Ford demonstration casset tape.
3 7-up cars
3 92 cars
1 Yellow Black
1 Triple White
Question: Has anyone seen a low mile all original 92 or 93 that has the red rubber positive battery terminal cover? I've seen those on low mile Cobras but never on a feature car. One of my judges has a 92 and he says that all cars came with that cover on the positive terminal. I'm not sure that's correct.
There was a 92 near my car that only had 6500 miles. It was the often heard about little old lady car that the new owner just happend to luck into. He nor the original owner did not even know it was special. Other than an aftermarket AC compressor it was bone stock down to the Ford demonstration casset tape.
Comments
The way I have heard it is Ford would put on cars what was available at time of assembly. If Billy-Bob's battery cable company, Johnny James' battery cable company and Janie Sue's battery cable company were making cables for Ford back then and one shipment had covers and another didn't what was in the pile at time of assembly goes on the car. When I have bought brand new battery cables for my cars they have come with Thunderbird part numbers on them. I don't recall if that is both or one one or the other.
My late late late production 1966 Mustang (mid July of 1966) had 1967 valve covers on the 289-2V engine. The second owner that I bought the car from said the car was bought with 41,000 original miles from the original owner that way. As I frequented shows I noticed that other 1966 Mustangs with 700,000 and higher consecutive unit build numbers also had 1967 valve covers on them. I spoke to one OLD man at a show and he confirmed he bought his 1966 Mustang brand new and had never altered the engine in any way. I then came to the conclusion that Ford was gearing up for 1967 vehicle production and because the engines were assembled with 1967 valve covers they were put in the last of the 1966 Mustangs too.
I remember a time a friend of mine bought a 1969 Rally Sport Camaro and it had the little turn signal/high beam indicators on the fenders like Dodges had back then and it had the brake light/tail light indicators above the center of the back window. After he had the car a while he ripped it all out of the car talking a few choice words about someone jury-rigging this stuff into his car. Funny thing, years and years later I came to find out that there happened to be a RARE option in old Camaros, a fiber-optic light indicator system. He was surprised when I told him what he ripped out of the car was probably original. It was too late, he threw it all away when he ripped it out of the car.
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In any case I did get a Gold.
See you in Beaumont next spring.
According to my owners manual the correct battery is a BX58C. I do not have one. I have a current BXT58C.
Here are some pics of a BX58c circa 1994
http://www.supermotors.net/registry/12248/33660-2