Hey Guys, I found this carb & wanted to know if you guys think this is the real deal? It looks like it is to me. If so what's a fair price to offer for it? Thanks, Josh
Date code is 0226. I belive this is a service replacement carb. Code letters after the casting number should be MD, although Im not sure if the replacement carbs have the same code. I see what looks like an upside down A
although it is a service replacement stage1 carb, it is much more "real" than a restamped non stage carb. it will have an air horn with the secondary pullover enrichment holes positioned below the air flaps, not above. Thats part of what sets the stage1 carbs apart. theyre not getting any easier to find, and if you dont want a restamp theyre your best bet.
yes I believe that is correct for the date code reading. as for the $ It wouldnt surprise me to see them selling for a few hundred when the buyer knows what hes got. I saw a tablefull of early 70s GTO core Qjets at a local swap a couple weeks age each tagged $300
I was at Rochester Products back in the early to mid 80's. At that time, they had 3 main Quadrajet assembly lines. Two were for current production, and one was for service. The two main production lines, IIRC, ran 3 shifts mostly 7 days a week. They would set up and run literally 1000's of one particular part number. On the service line, they would set up and run limited amounts of a particular number. I can't recall if there was a minimum or not, but it seemed like they spent more time doing a change over than they did an actual run. I am pretty sure that they made extra carbs rather than fill any particular service volume order number. Those carbs ended up in a storage facility in a remote part of the Lexington Ave plant, and the location of each carb part number was kept in a computer. An older gentleman (engineer and Buick enthusiast) was able to find and "acquire" the remaining stash of NOS Stage 1 carbs, as well as any other Buick Quadajets that were desirable. This was in the mid 80's. We went on our separate ways and I don't know what ever became of him or the carbs. Although I spent a lot of time in that plant as an engineering student, I guess I never really appreciated what was being built and how it all happened. Looking back, it was quite an operation!
