Propwash
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Hey you crazy cat's......question for you. After doing some work for an older gentleman down the road, he was nice enough to give me an air cleaner lid, because he knew I was into Mopars and had a couple. He told me about it a couple days before giving it to me, and I thought it would be something pretty neat to just hang on the wall, or possibly use someday.
Anyways, he handed me over an air cleaner lid for an air grabber roadrunner and this thing looks absolutely brand new. I asked where he got it/bought it and he said from a friend that passed away several years back. He said he believes it's a factory part because it was pulled from a old box with Mopar stamping all over it, along with some other parts that were in old Mopar labeled boxes. Of course the first thing I asked was "do you have anything else you may want to sell/part with?" He said that's all he had left and when the guy passed almost all of it was auctioned off.
So, myself it's hard to believe this would be NOS because it literally looks brand new, but I don't want to doubt the guy. He's a decent old fella that has nothing to gain or loose by making stuff up. Anyways, there is no P/N stamp of any sort. The only thing I can dig up on the internet is that the real ones have a taller lip around the edge, which this one has about 1/4" lip. So yeah, I'm clueless. Any purist or NOS lid owner out there have any ideas? One thing's for certain, if it is real it probably belongs on a factory orientated restored or untouched car where it rightfully belongs, not hanging on a garage wall. As far as the reproduction ones go, I see a guy can pick them up for around $80-90 bucks and then another $20-30 for the stickers. If that's the case, I don't mind decorating the garage wall with it, or possibly adding it to a car down the road. Any ideas out there?
Anyways, he handed me over an air cleaner lid for an air grabber roadrunner and this thing looks absolutely brand new. I asked where he got it/bought it and he said from a friend that passed away several years back. He said he believes it's a factory part because it was pulled from a old box with Mopar stamping all over it, along with some other parts that were in old Mopar labeled boxes. Of course the first thing I asked was "do you have anything else you may want to sell/part with?" He said that's all he had left and when the guy passed almost all of it was auctioned off.
So, myself it's hard to believe this would be NOS because it literally looks brand new, but I don't want to doubt the guy. He's a decent old fella that has nothing to gain or loose by making stuff up. Anyways, there is no P/N stamp of any sort. The only thing I can dig up on the internet is that the real ones have a taller lip around the edge, which this one has about 1/4" lip. So yeah, I'm clueless. Any purist or NOS lid owner out there have any ideas? One thing's for certain, if it is real it probably belongs on a factory orientated restored or untouched car where it rightfully belongs, not hanging on a garage wall. As far as the reproduction ones go, I see a guy can pick them up for around $80-90 bucks and then another $20-30 for the stickers. If that's the case, I don't mind decorating the garage wall with it, or possibly adding it to a car down the road. Any ideas out there?
