anyone seen these valve covers before?

Has anyone seen these valve covers before? They fit Ford Windsors so I bought em,I am curious how old they might be.

 

I have a set just like it. I been wondering the same thing.Mine have a Holley decals in the center part.

 

I got a pair of those for small block Mopar. no name anywhere.

 

look like cal customs.I have a set of sbc's that look similiar,

 

I had a set on my 68 Mustang I drove in High school; back in 1973 so They are at least that old of a design.

 

I had the same ones on my 302. My dad got them for me from a friend who had them hanging on the wall forever. I think ive seen brand new ones on ebay though.

 

Theyre definately not Cal Custom

 

Nope, these are Cal Customs:

 

J.C. Whitney I think they have been selling them since the Horse & Buggy

 

BTW, I just scored these for $20 buy it now on ebay.

 

I got you beat! Got my cal customs for 15 at a swap meet! haha

 

HAHAHA..............I paid that much to ship them, still a smokin' deal though.

 

Up until recently you could still buy them new from Speedway Motors

 

Speedway still shows them on their site.

 

The rectangle in the fins is the give away. I think they were Mr. Gasket, but it could be that they were generic and the many sellers supplied there own decal for the center rectangle. That is just a theory of mine because they have no cast in identification. I always hated them because they were so cheap. They made the same style for almost all the 60s engines. I have a set for the FE fords. They were cheap and sold at places like Pep Boys and other places similar. They were the "wire baskets" of VCs to most of the guys.

 

If those are like the SBC versions they were first introduced in the late 60s as weiands, then later the tooling must've moved cause they kept changing the insert (rectangle that's empty on yours). I've seen the chevies as blank, bowtie, "pro street", and "Motion" which were used Baldwin Motion cars like the LT-1 Vega.