289 HiPo Air Cleaner Decal?

Hi,

These three have an rectangular (straight) Autolite decal.

One that is very clear is from the Hot Rod Magazine from Aug.65

Another is the factory picture fron Shelby American where you can

see the date of the radiator, 2-65

A third is the 1965 picture of 5S114 which arrived at Shelby

in the end of March and the radiator is dated 2-65

/Bo

I called Jim and Jesse, and ordered the decals, will report here of my experience.<img src=images/icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

BoS

Got a couple of those and at least one Magazine car with no AUTOLITE decal. That one in addition to the parking lot shots and Killians original car all with no rectangle or curved decal

Did you notice on the one picture (believe it is your #2 where the heater hose clamps had been changed out for worm gear. Typical for the time and one of those details that got changed as I mentioned.

Edited by - J_Speegle on 09/18/2007 22:22:11

This is the original decal from my air cleaner. Notice the words "High Performance" go almost to the edge of the checkered flag and it doesn't appear to have the part number. It was more of a paper type than the mylar reproductions. I hated to remove it, but I had to get the lid re-plated a few years ago.

Gerald

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Thanks Gerald, Looking at the original I think the repos have the checkered flags backward? Repo = bottom right corner black.

Orig. = bottom right corner white.

Hi,

Have three repo decals and the only one having

the right side corner black is Jim's. The other two are white.

/Bo

Interesting observation about the orientation of the checkered flags, I'd never noticed that before.

I emailed Jim about this and he said he had seen original decals both ways and that the ones he had done were exactly like a NOS air cleaner he had maybe 20 years ago.

Jim's labels are also glossier.

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I assume that's due to the OEM correct cellophane top layer?