Mopar History Buffs

my family car was a 49 plymouth. i bought it off my mom as my first car, but, she had made several conversions, one of which was that she put a 8 volt boat battery in instead of doing a full 12 volt conversion. be warned: it will not charge like a 12 volt, you have to charge it as a sixer. takes longer, but if you do it as a twelve it'll discharge battery. i know this because i drove that thing with dead generator brushes from no. cal to houston and had to charge the battery at truck stops every night.