Lots of different battery solutions here.

[casper50]

Someone was asking about 8 volt batteries the other day.  Here's a site that has lots of different solutions to battery problems.   I have not ordered anything from them so I don't know about customer service or anything.  12 volt start and 6 volt electrical, 8 volt, jmopar type and others.

 

 

http://antiqueautobattery.com/accessories.html

Edited January 27, 2016 by casper50

[plymouthcranbrook]

I ordered a set of battery cables for my 1952 from them about 12 years ago. Knowledgeable people and a good product. Still using the cables. Fast shipping if I remember right.

[Don Coatney]

8 volt batteries are available as well as 8 volt alternators. However I do not recommend that as a solution to anything. Only to let folks know they are available if that is the direction they want to go.

 

 

[50fordtruck]

I used an 8 volt battery in my 50 ford flat head V8 truck for 12 years with an adjustable voltage regulator from western auto without any problems. I don't think western auto is still in business. I love my Plymouth but miss the sound of the flat head V8.

PS I kept the 6 volt system in my Plymouth and it starts good.

Edited January 28, 2016 by 50fordtruck

[Niel Hoback]

Western Auto is now NTB, National Tire and battery.

[austinsailor]

Here's what is on Wikipedia:

 

"Western Auto Supply Company—known more widely as Western Auto—was a specialty retail chain of stores that supplied automobile parts and accessories. It operated approximately 1200 stores across the United States.^[1] It was started in 1909 in Kansas City, Missouri, by George Pepperdine, who later founded Pepperdine University.^[2]

Western Auto was bought by Beneficial Corporation in 1961; Western Auto's management led a leveraged buyout in 1985, leading three years later to a sale to Sears. Sears sold most of the company to Advance Auto Parts in 1998, and by 2003, the resulting merger had led to the end of the Western Auto brand and its product distribution network."

 

Pretty sad, it was a good store.

[casper50]

The one I grew up with sold guns and lots more things besides auto parts.

[austinsailor]

Yep, my brother and I would save up change from where ever we could get it, always watching to see when we could buy another steel trap for our trap line. Western Auto always had a good selection.

Times were simpler then.

[Niel Hoback]

They also sold bicycles.