What freedom battery is correct?

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I have a 1979 Chevy truck, what Freedom battery topper is correct. I see 6 available on eBay.
 

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Dear God, Please don't let him buy one from eBay!
 

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I see 6 on there. What’s the prob with the vendor?
 

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Probably nothing with the vendor. I wouldn't buy an automotive battery on-line. Just get one with about 750CCA.
 

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It’s not a battery, it’s a peroid correct topper. They have them in black and blue.
 

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Looks like corvette central have them Too.
 

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I've never seen anything like that 'till now.
I don't remember the cap color but RED is my guess. Top post.
Here's my suggestion:
 

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It’s not a battery, it’s a peroid correct topper. They have them in black and blue.
I'm not sure why anyone would want to do this... but here's an original 1979 Commercial for the freedom batteries.
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Looks like those years would have been the blue ones. All of those ones you have pictured are for the smaller passenger car batteries though. No idea if they would fit the larger truck batteries.
 
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The eye is red on those, it’s wrong. And freedom batteries started around 1976. but I’m talking about the freedom battery toppers. They were blue until ???? Then black Till ???
it says it fits a 78 series battery
 

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They had a Freedom battery in '67?
 

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1976. I don’t have a 67.
you posted 66-72.
i dont want a 1967 topper in a 1979
 
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Your info under your name says 1967???????
 

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The info is wrong by my name.
 

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They had a Freedom battery in '67?

1976. I don’t have a 67.
you posted 66-72.
i dont want a 1967 topper in a 1979

Your info under your name says 1967???????

The info is wrong by my name.
So it's not a '67 Or a '76, it's a 79? yeah okay, silly us we should've known better...



Idk if ANYONE here will have the info you want. This is something I didn't even know existed, and I'm pretty sure not many other people know about it either. That's cool you're trying to be period correct, I personally am not a fan of modern stuff on old vehicles at all whatsoever, but for something like a battery that is a wear item I feel like it's expected that you will have a newer battery in there. I don't care what brand of battery you have, none of them will last 40+ years, not even a quarter of that lol. If you found a neat sticker to put on the battery to make it look like its from the 70s that's pretty cool, but don't come in here all demanding that we know what you mean when A) it's some specialty niche product you found on eBay and B) you typed in the wrong info when you signed up then get upset when people see what you typed. Like how are we supposed to know? Welcome to the site, but please try to act a little more friendly 'till we know you... Heck, i'm a complete jerk, but that's expected at this point. We don't know you yet, chill for a bit lol...
 
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