Need a little help please. Many years ago I sent a set of "tripower" Holley carbs to Jerry Luck Motorsports to be redone. They were in pretty bad shape. Jerry needed a custom aluminum polished radiator for a corvette magazine project so I built and shipped it to him. In exchange, he sent me back a set of carburetors with a story behind them. Since they were going on a BBC in a 1957 Chevy & since my carbs were really rough and missing all the vacuum stuff and since he knew it didn't matter to me which side the throttle linkage and the fuel inlets were on, he did me a solid and sent me what he said would be a surprise and it was! Inside the box was a brand new, never run complete set of Mopar version Holleys and they were chome and beautiful. I called him after receiving them and he told me they were made for a 6 pack debut 440 for the Detroit Auto Show for Chrysler. He told me after the show that they were to be removed from the engine destroyed!!! Jerry said they couldn't bring themselves to do it so they made their way home to a closet and had been there in a box for many years, waiting for the right guy... That being said, I guess that was me.

It seems as though I wrote the book on delayed gratification as just a few weeks ago, they were finally installed on my stroker BBC at the dyno shop and run and they performed wonderfully however, i am now having some misgivings on whether these carbs are too valuable to keep. They have now had fuel in them but been drained back down and removed from the engine. I am trying to find out if indeed these were done special by Holley for Chrysler and for this Detroit Auto Show debut if maybe they are too valuable to keep? IF the story is true, they would be 1 of 1 assuming this is provable.

Here is the info on the carbs themselves:

Center carb 3418550 LIST-4144-1 2372
cast number in air horn D-1565
6R (3405)B
stamped in bottom of throttle body is 91383
6
and 4383 3
Front & Rear carbs no list number I can find but cast in air horn is D-1565
6R (3406)B
stamped in bottom of throttle bodies is
91383
10
and 4517

So, can anybody help with this? If not, do any of you know someone who could. I presume this would be the 1970 Detroit Auto Show but not sure.

I have photos I can post or send if interested.

Thank you in advance for your help!

Topradman

 

I would use them up, along with that story... Until someone made me an offer I could not refuse OR the cops showed up to tell me I was in possession of something from the black market...
But that's just me...

 

He's got these all over the place, there not 1970 carbs but replacement carbs.