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Old Apr 22, 2016 | 02:40 PM
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cleaning out the garage today and ran across a pair of my old valve covers for one of my bb of years past. i must have put a note attached to one of them that said start in 70 oil fill cap was push in and before was twist in. can't locate the history on these but i bet someone on this forum knows.seem to remember that the right ones were worth some cash but can't remember which ones. still have the drip rails in them.

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Looks like an old set off a 68. They had a flash chrome coating that always pitted over time. My originals have pitting just not as bad as yours.
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cleaning out the garage today and ran across a pair of my old valve covers for one of my bb of years past. i must have put a note attached to one of them that said start in 70 oil fill cap was push in and before was twist in. can't locate the history on these but i bet someone on this forum knows.seem to remember that the right ones were worth some cash but can't remember which ones. still have the drip rails in them.
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thanks for the reply.as i was cleaning some of my old stuff out i had forgot about these until i saw the note i had fastened to one of them.just fun to see some of this old stuff
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Looks like an old set off a 68. They had a flash chrome coating that always pitted over time. My originals have pitting just not as bad as yours.
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