273 Charger/Commando air cleaner!

-
65dartcharger

65dartcharger

Dart Charger 273 Historian
FABO Gold Member
Joined
Dec 9, 2006
Messages
8,027
Reaction score
3,708
Location
Tavelsjo, Sweden
As all know the 273 Charger/Commando engines all had a chrome air cleaner lid. But some of these air cleaners also got a decal for air filter change.
I'm looking for pictures of those air cleaners with;
- where the decal is placed
- a close picture of it
- where the car was assembled
- year
Thanks in advance
Ulf
 
You mean a service sticker on the side of the chrome air cleaner?
 
Mine is a 1965 Formula S, built in the spring of '65 in Los Angeles. The sticker is no longer there, but here is photo where you can see where the sticker was and the vent tube to valve cover not too far from it.

Barracuda motor blue copy.jpg
 
dibbons said:
Mine is a 1965 Formula S, built in the spring of '65 in Los Angeles. The sticker is no longer there, but here is photo where you can see where the sticker was and the vent tube to valve cover not too far from it.

View attachment 1715650506
Click to expand...
On mine for the Charger label to line up forward, the breather is on the opposite valve cover. Can you measure from breather to left edge of sticker?
 
dibbons said:
The sticker is gone now since the air cleaner was polished so not really possible to measure anything now.
Click to expand...
Sorry, my reading skills suck tonight. My bad.
 
65dartcharger said:
As all know the 273 Charger/Commando engines all had a chrome air cleaner lid. But some of these air cleaners also got a decal for air filter change.
I'm looking for pictures of those air cleaners with;
- where the decal is placed
- a close picture of it
- where the car was assembled
- year
Thanks in advance
Ulf
Click to expand...
Ulf....Here's mine...Detroit, MI....1967....original decal, not repro....

IMG_0021.JPG


Hope it helps!
 
Here's what I have on a 32k original car. It's probably a C.A.P. sticker. It's unreadable at this point. '66 Barracuda Formula S, L.A. plant, and does have the C.A.P. The hose has the multi-ribs, but, is not molded like what's been shown on a '67 engine in another post.

32kengine.jpg
 
The red border on the repop is uniform, but the original is thin on side and bottom. The AIR CLEANER is NOT aligned to the PART xx under it. Small font is overall thinner on OEM. Typical, repop is more uniform than orignal....
 
When I took this picture in 1969, the do-not-wash-or-oil decal was already gone. However, you can see the outline of where it had been - on the driver's side maybe a little more than halfway between dead forward and dead to the left.

My guess is these decals were applied pretty sloppily, and there is no one precisely correct spot for that decal, on 273s or any other motors of that era.

Commando2731969.jpg
 
I'm going to go out on a limb & say the quality of the early stickers & adhesive probably didn't hold up real well due to under hood engine temperatures. And not to mention running a car wash wand over them to clean the engine up for those late night weekend cruises.
 
65 Cuda 340 said:
When I took this picture in 1969, the do-not-wash-or-oil decal was already gone. However, you can see the outline of where it had been - on the driver's side maybe a little more than halfway between dead forward and dead to the left.

My guess is these decals were applied pretty sloppily, and there is no one precisely correct spot for that decal, on 273s or any other motors of that era.

View attachment 1715658145
Click to expand...
Thanks!
 
cudamark said:
Here's what I have on a 32k original car. It's probably a C.A.P. sticker. It's unreadable at this point. '66 Barracuda Formula S, L.A. plant, and does have the C.A.P. The hose has the multi-ribs, but, is not molded like what's been shown on a '67 engine in another post.

View attachment 1715658108
Click to expand...
Thanks! If you turn the lid so you get the Commando name in line with the firewall, where will the decal be then?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
-

Back
Top