As a note of explanation, when I got my '70 Monaco Brougham "N", in 1975, I started to look for small things I could possibly still get to keep it looking "right". One was the air cleaner service decal. By that time, it was NS1, so I looked in the main repro engine compartment decal vendors. They had some, but they were not an exact match, so I stopped worrying about getting one, even years later they were not the ones to match mine, so I paid special attention when cleaning the engine area to not disentigrate it more than it already was, around the edges. Most fell off, anyway, it seemed. But on my cars, they were on the rh side as I mentioned. In more RECENT times, Internet research has revealed there was lots of variations as to where they went on the air cleaner body, platform to platform, model year to model year, engine family to engine family.
The '68 Road Runner 383 air cleaner was a disguised open element air cleaner, with the "open" part around the bottom of the housing. There were earlier versions on prior 383 4bbls ('65 B-body, I believe) but without the crinkle paint and specific styling of the '68 RR unit. The '68 Satellite 2dr ht my neighbor ordered for '68 high school graduation was supposed to have the "Road Runner V-8", but we now know it should have been the normal 383 4bbl w/dual exhausts. BUT it had the open element RR air cleaner, high-rise exhaust manifolds, painted turquoise, with factory a/c, so it looked the part.
I have not looked at the most recent air cleaner service decals to see if any might match the ones on my cars. But as they are not an exact match, in all respects, possibly more applicable to B-body cars, I'm not terribly concerned about replacing them. In THAT respect, much of these comments about placement might tend to be moot if the correct-match items are not available. Now, IF somebody might take a hi-res photo of an original item (CORRECT for each respective application!), then photoshop it to make the colors and such bright and un-faded, then transfer that enhanced image to some sort of adhesive medium in the correct size and such, THEN all of these concerns might have more meaning. At least to me. Be that as it may.
Respectfully,
CBODY67
The '68 Road Runner 383 air cleaner was a disguised open element air cleaner, with the "open" part around the bottom of the housing. There were earlier versions on prior 383 4bbls ('65 B-body, I believe) but without the crinkle paint and specific styling of the '68 RR unit. The '68 Satellite 2dr ht my neighbor ordered for '68 high school graduation was supposed to have the "Road Runner V-8", but we now know it should have been the normal 383 4bbl w/dual exhausts. BUT it had the open element RR air cleaner, high-rise exhaust manifolds, painted turquoise, with factory a/c, so it looked the part.
I have not looked at the most recent air cleaner service decals to see if any might match the ones on my cars. But as they are not an exact match, in all respects, possibly more applicable to B-body cars, I'm not terribly concerned about replacing them. In THAT respect, much of these comments about placement might tend to be moot if the correct-match items are not available. Now, IF somebody might take a hi-res photo of an original item (CORRECT for each respective application!), then photoshop it to make the colors and such bright and un-faded, then transfer that enhanced image to some sort of adhesive medium in the correct size and such, THEN all of these concerns might have more meaning. At least to me. Be that as it may.
Respectfully,
CBODY67
