Air cleaner base color

6hypo5conv_old · January 24, 2009 at 5:53 PM

It is my understanding that ALL 1965 K engines that were obviously black from the factory would have had GOLD bases on the chrome air cleaner....I thought I read somewhere that sometime in '65 the went to the BLUE ahead of time, my car was built in LATE JULY 1965.

6hypo5conv_old · January 25, 2009 at 10:51 AM

Acording to Tony's book, 4th edition on page 46 at the bottom it says that "ALL '65 cars with BLACK engines used the GOLD base.

This is what I am basing my opinion on.....anyone have a LATE 1965 that they are running a BLUE base air cleaner on??

Mu5tanggt_old · January 25, 2009 at 1:05 PM

I have a 66 Metuchen K code (april 66) that came original with a gold base not blue. Its been in the family since new.

club 33_old · January 25, 2009 at 5:08 PM

I have a Jan. '65 San Jose car with a blue base. Appears to have been original.

6hypo5conv_old · January 25, 2009 at 8:15 PM

This is very interesting so far....a 1966 with a GOLD base, and a 1965 with a BLUE base, sure is conflicting with what is printed in our "Bible" and I must say I've seen more BLUE bases at the shows than the GOLD, the one we are trying to use IS a repro that IS BLUE and we are going to paint it the GOLD......I think...

Mu5tanggt_old · February 12, 2009 at 8:51 PM

Pic of my original 66 Metuchen Koupe air cleaner base, looks gold to me. Built April 4, 1966

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J_Speegle_old · February 12, 2009 at 9:48 PM

Quote from Mu5tanggt

Pic of my original 66 Metuchen Koupe air cleaner base, looks gold to me. Built April 4, 1966

How sure are you that this is the original base? Got to ask since it's allot older than the car. Jan 65 verses April 66 = 15 months sure does not look like the typical date spread IMHO

Mu5tanggt_old · February 12, 2009 at 9:53 PM

My dad bought the car new and its never been changed.

s2ms · February 12, 2009 at 10:14 PM

Interesting. From what I've observed the supply of 5A dated bases lasted well into 66 production until the 6A dated bases started showing up. The original base on my late March 66 San Jose car is dated 6C so I would expect an April 66 car to have something like that. I can think of several scenarios how your car got a 5A base but probably something we'll never know for sure.......

round2K_old · February 13, 2009 at 1:07 AM

There was a discussion of this topic a couple of years ago. There were definitely some blue bases on early cars; the all gold rule has been found to be flawed. The 5A base, in particular, has been found in both gold and black. I'll dig around for the earier item in the archive.

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