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I like the air cleaner, looks like a clean old 4

door. 
https://www.kijiji.ca/v-classic-cars/bedford/1955-oldsmobile-rocket-88/1517756932



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Is that ever nice, not what I was expecting to see when I opened it. What a look.



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DonSSDD wrote:

I like the air cleaner

 Ya, cool batwing.batman.gif



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Pontiacanada wrote:
DonSSDD wrote:

I like the air cleaner

 Ya, cool batwing.batman.gif

 Darryl, the term "Bat wing" was a term that was started by a fifties Chevrolet expert in Lubuck, Texas. For the 1956-1957 Chevrolet dual quad triangle shaped oil bath air cleaner. Bill Clement of Lubuck, Texas named that and for the life of me, i do not understand why. The "Bat wing" air cleaner on the 56-57 Chev dual quads does not look like a bat at all. Chevrolet never named it that, yet this guy Bill Clement back in the late 1970's named it that and it has stuck ever since. Go figure. confuse



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The term Batwing is applied to both styles of air cleaner:

 

 

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1957 Cadillac:

1957BiarritzNo1_05_1500.jpg

 

1957 Chevrolet

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I had the "pleasure" of meeting Bill Clement at Chevycraft, his shop in Lubbock in about 1981. I won't say any more about him because it's good to respect those who are no longer with us. I'll just say it was an experience.

www.legacy.com/obituaries/lubbockonline/obituary.aspx

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73SC wrote:

The term Batwing is applied to both styles of air cleaner:

 

 

165c639acf43266008ca9e07366517dc.jpg

 

1957 Cadillac:

1957BiarritzNo1_05_1500.jpg

 

1957 Chevrolet

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 Yes, the Olds-style air cleaner is very commonly referred to as the batwing.  I don't know the origin of it, perhaps it dates back before the Chevy guy, but it's been known as that 'forever'.

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/1950s-original-factory-caddy-olds-batwing-air-cleaner-hot-rod-sold.1058465/

The Cadillac in the photo above is a work of art.  Note that these dual quad 'bat wing' air cleaners were not a GM-only item, as shown in the pic of a Chrysler 300 below:

https://www.hemmings.com/stories/article/clean-sculpture

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4SPEED427 wrote:

I had the "pleasure" of meeting Bill Clement at Chevycraft, his shop in Lubbock in about 1981. I won't say any more about him because it's good to respect those who are no longer with us. I'll just say it was an experience.

www.legacy.com/obituaries/lubbockonline/obituary.aspx

 Carl, i never met Bill Clement but for many years i heard the same negative stuff from folks in the 1955-1956-1957 Chevrolet world. I have no comment because i have no facts. 



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