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Is this washer reservoir an older replacement or OE?

What kind of "range" would the date code of had?? My repro is dated 3168... OE 0269.
 
On the judging side, I entered my Superbird at the Nationals and I got dinged a point for incorrect valve stem caps. They were blind to the fact the wheels on the ground were 15" Polyglass, and the original spare I had was a 14" Polyglass.
The judging at the Nat's has been down the tubes for a long time......I wouldn't even consider having a car judged there to be honest.....Way back in the day they were the go to place.....
 
Vintage Chromoly, your washer bottle was the factory issued piece that was the superceded style to the assembly line piece. The logic in relocating the lid to the opposing side was to prevent the chance of air lifting the lid up from air entering the grill area and from air off of the radiator fan. That was what I have been told from one of the zone managers back in the day. This style was sold through Chrysler as the over counter replacement piece and from the restoration shops who were reselling the factory Chrysler issued piece in the birth of restoration parts. This style was pretty much taken as being factory correct until a reproduction was done with the lid opening in the correct fashion.

In the mid 90's a major manufacture in the restoration parts business was able to get 200 of the bottles done without the hole cast for the lid attaching point. We simply drilled a hole in the bottle locating the lid in the correct position. I bought like 60 of them and several other guys bought up the remainder. Needless to say, even back in those days, I was selling those at like $150 each and they went very quickly.

Fast forward to the early 2000s, cannot remember the exact year, but the business started doing the washer bottle with the lid opening in the correct fashion. At this point, Chrysler still had the bottles in inventory and sold them for a couple more years. But the reproduction bottles pretty much took over that market. We now manufacture all of the more popular bottles for the vendors and have a couple more in the development stages for the later year models. Your looking at approximately $40,000 to do the the tooling for just one bottle.

We offer a "Aged" bottle to duplicate an older bottle. The ability to consistently get the "Aged" appearance is hit or miss. Some of them come out very well, and yet some come out more "Yellowed" as in a milk jug. The trick is to have it be transparent, yet still be "Aged".

Wayne in regards to the date code of your bottle to the production date, your actually in my opinion good. The 60 odd days prior to the scheduled build date fits the general consensus of parts.
 
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If a sideways glance causes it to crack it’s the real deal.
 
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