Tim Smith writes: > > In a '71 you can fit the biggest damn battery you can find, so go to > Sears and buy the newest biggest DieHard Gold you can find, great warranty > on them too! Yup, and I got to use it too. I bought a brand new Die Hard Gold for the Mustang, and a year later left my lights on overnight. The battery would no longer hold a charge. I took it back to Sears, paid $20-something for the pro rate, and got a new one. I watch the installer toss my one year old battery into a pile of Die Hard Golds. He said they get them back all the time. The Die Hard Gold is a strong battery, but it doesn't seem to have much resistance to being discharged. I had an old car once with electrical problems, with an old Black top/white case Die Hard battery in it. That battery got run down dead many times and I was always able to roll start the car and it would charge back up. I eventually sold the car with the still good battery in it, several years later. FWIW, -David ============================================================================ David Schwarze '73 VW Safare Custom Camper (Da Boat) San Diego, California, USA '73 Capri GT 2800 (Da Beast) e-mail: des@teleport.com '87 Mustang Lx 5.0 (Da Sleeper) http://www.teleport.com/~des '93 Weber WG-50 (Da Piano) ============================================================================
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