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Have a couple of these old Delco dark brown R distributor caps in original cans, what were thsu installed on.? Thanks
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Default Re: dark brown copper delco R distributor caps

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Just from my own experience,I have seen them as orignal equipment on some Corvettes & conventional Trucks.
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i have a 111480 dist. with one dist. was a early take out
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Default Re: dark brown copper delco R distributor caps

Rick is right a couple of vette applications but mainly seen them on dump trucks. They were more of a severe service application vs high performance yet we used them and the truck points in the racing days with no problems.
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Have a couple of these old Delco dark brown R distributor caps in original cans, what were thsu installed on.? Thanks

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1970 LT1 Corvette with TI, for one. My cap has 9k mi on it along with the rest of the car.....
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