[njsteve]

The car has a $26 charge in the window sticker for the "Delco X Maintenance Free" battery. The original owner remembered it being a Delco Freedom battery. Do you know when the Freedom came into production, given that the Freedom II was late 1970's?

[njsteve]

My original warranty brochure for the car lists just the standard Delco Enegergizer warranty information but doesn't mention anything about the optional maintenance free battery warranty.

[Formulabruce]

Originally Posted by njsteve

The car has a $26 charge in the window sticker for the "Delco X Maintenance Free" battery. The original owner remembered it being a Delco Freedom battery. Do you know when the Freedom came into production, given that the Freedom II was late 1970's?

UA1 was only 10 bucks , ( HD Battery R89W??) so its not that, AC cars came STD with AU1 or T60 option included.
Based on the article, its Probably a C89 , I cant even find a pic of one

[njsteve]

If you go back to the first page of this thread you can see the window sticker - it's the 20th option on the first page of the sticker, right after Honeycomb wheels.

Here's the original order sheet. Maintenance Free Battery - Option TP1 in box 48. It's different than the UA1 HD Battery option below it.

[Formulabruce]

Originally Posted by njsteve

If you go back to the first page of this thread you can see the window sticker - it's the 20th option on the first page of the sticker, right after Honeycomb wheels.

Here's the original order sheet. Maintenance Free Battery - Option TP1 in box 48. It's different than the UA1 HD Battery option below it.

Correct, your car could NOT be ordered with a UA1 , because it came std with the AC, so the only thing available was the C89 texture battery , the maint. free version of the UA1

[njsteve]

So is the "Delco X Maintenance Free" C89 battery also known as the Delco Freedom battery? No one seems to have a photo of this elusive contraption.

We should call this thread the X-Files...the Delco X files, that is. :-)

[Formulabruce]

Originally Posted by njsteve

So is the "Delco X Maintenance Free" C89 battery also known as the Delco Freedom battery? No one seems to have a photo of this elusive contraption.

We should call this thread the X-Files...the Delco X files, that is. :-)

Earliest I have seen of the first Freedom battery was Late 1975 (Bonneville) after looking through stuff, and it could be that GM changed the C89 to this new name to correspond with the countries Bicentennial in the 1967 year. ( IE: Freedom Train..)

[njsteve]

Have you seen this 1975 brochure? It talks about the C89 being standard on the Pontiac Gran Prix and shows a strange looking, black, flat top battery: