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Old 08-17-2024, 02:45 PM
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'Just curious; were the air cleaners for the carbed engines gloss black, or satin black from tne factory?...
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They were more of a satin black. Def not gloss.
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The breathers were semi gloss, more toward gloss. I had the breather restored on my '84 T/A & decided to have it painted gloss & it looks great.
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Mine Is Closer To Semi-gloss





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Mine Is Closer To Semi-gloss
Doesn't look like it would have in 83.

Might be OK enough now; isn't what it looked like when new. Even has orange peel which those things NEVER had on the showroom floor.

Too bad whoever squirted whatever onto it, didn't bother with the area occluded by the Thermac valve. They lazyed out and just left all the old rust under there. LLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZZZZZZZZYYYYYY.

Krylon isn't necessarily original. However pretty it might be.

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Re: Air Cleaner Color

Looking over used thirdgens in 1990,found an air cleaner painted fluorescent green... Reply 5 underhood looks really good and authentic and that is an earlier lid-sometime later,possibly '85 models,the area under the wingnut was domed up and IIRC a knurled **** instead of wingnut.
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