a good friend has this air cleaner setup,not sure what years its correct for or if its for a corvette or early chevrolet.?. it has 2 very small dime size dings otherwise its in excellent condition looks like original paint also...he would like to know what its worth and me too...
56-57 passenger car only. Standard or No heater. 245 or 270 Hp.(0n 57) in that condition, original...1200.00 to 1800.00. Repop steel....about 1600.00. On American Pickers...600.00. PawnStars....300.00. LOL. Over priced? Yes. But still fairly rare and cool as hell. Only drawback, they cover alot of a finely detailed engine.
Cadillacs had a batwing air cleaner also, but spacing was different. Besides being gold, I don't know if there were other differences.
The air cleaner is peobably worth more to a restorer than anyone else probably from 100-200 dollars and I don't have a clue what you're worth.
The air cleaner on my '56 Chrysler 300B ,was the same type of air cleaner. At full throttle the intake system made as much noise as the exhaust. Awsome! .....................Jack
Those were the first thing to be yanked off and replaced with smaller chrome air cleaners along with the front bench seat making them worth a fortune,you can find the intake and carbs cheaper then the air cleaner sometimes.
Wow...someone who actually "knows" what a "batwing" air cleaner is...! Not that Cad, Buick, Olds duel opening aircleaner housing that most "think"...is a batwing. Mike
You mean the one that most "think" is a batwing, but that you have to search 'batwing' in order to find, which just perpetuates the confusion?
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