I have an original 71 ram air cleaner assembly and it still has the original white stripe/ ribbed hoses. The housing is completely original and untouched. The vacuum hoses have what looks like gloss black overspray on them. Can anyone verify if the hoses are supposed to have overspray? I can't see them installing the hoses then painting the housing.
DL’s air cleaner was like that on his 69. I just assumed someone had did a spray bomb on it at one point. You might be onto something though. The good thing is that the snorkels go right over those hoses, so you’ll never see it.
So odd. Why is there only a little overspray? If the hoses were installed and the cleaner painted after, they'd be covered in paint. Almost like the factory sprayed the hoses after the fact
On this 69 GS air cleaner the paint on the housing seems very flat black and the overspray on the white stripe tubes seems glossy. I am unsure on restoring this one for my car but would like to save the 69-date stamp. Does anyone know if these were made in batches or if there were many date stamps throughout the year. Tony
Tony, To answer your question; all the parts for our cars were made in batches. What makes the difference, regarding date codes, is the frequency which which the parts were used. For parts that are used on every vehicle, such as many body panels, radiator core supports, seat belts etc, the “batches” get used up quickly, so the dates for those pieces will be close to the body build dates, and the batches will need to be made more frequently due to demand. The opposite of this would be seen with parts that were used for obscure options. Those parts would also have been made in batches, but each batch was used up slowly, therefore the dates of these parts would start close to the body build date, then would get further and further away until the batch was getting used up. At that point another batch would be made, and the process repeated. One of the most extreme examples of this would be with Stage 1 distributors. For the 1970 model year they made quite a few cars with this option, so there were several different batches made, but for the 1971 & 1972 model years very few were made. The effect was that the last batch of carbs built in 1970 filled the entire needs for all the 71-72 Stage 1 cars, and that batch ran all the way until the end of the 72 production year.(At least this is what we have seen so far.) So the number of batches, and their frequency, all depended on how common the parts were. Duane
