Originally Posted by vwnate1

Was that a 235 or 261 in your '53 ? .

The copper mesh air cleaner was the light duty one, they also had an oil bath one to be used on farms & etc. where it got dusty .

I prefer oil bath air cleaners but then I like tinkering and so don't mind the periodic maintenance of same .

I run ATF in them, this makes the internal mesh self cleaning ~ you won't believe how much fine silt settles into the oil cup after you begin using ATF instead of light engine oil .