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- Path: sparky!uunet!boulder!bowmanj
- From: bowmanj@csn.org (Jerry Bowman)
- Subject: Re: Carter Quadrajet?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.174021.20016@colorado.edu>
- Sender: news@colorado.edu (The Daily Planet)
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- Organization: University of Colorado Boulder, OCS
- References: <1993Jan09.033725.5851@eng.umd.edu> <1993Jan10.170740.5731@nosc.mil> <ALC.93Jan11144515@gdstech.GRUMMAN.COM>
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:40:21 GMT
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- In article <ALC.93Jan11144515@gdstech.GRUMMAN.COM> alc@gdstech.GRUMMAN.COM (Al Chang) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan10.170740.5731@nosc.mil> koziarz@halibut.nosc.mil (Walter A. Koziarz) writes:
- >
- > In article <1993Jan09.033725.5851@eng.umd.edu> floyd@eng.umd.edu (Greg Butler) writes:
- >
- > >Is that a typo? Everyone knows Quadrajets are (were) made by
- > >Rochester, right? That's what I thought until I picked one up
- > >the other day that had written on the side:
- >
- > > "MFD BY
- > > CARTER
- > > CARBURETOR
- >
- > yep, I've seen 'em, I know someone that's got on on a '72 Pontiac Bonneville
- > with 455cid... yep, you *are* gonna have fun convincing parts-store counter-hlp
- > that you're not halucinating... but don't give up, the correct parts are
- > available, you just gotta look for 'em.
- >
- >
- >Are you sure its not a thermalquad(sp?)?? I think Carter made the
- >thermalquad in the 60's and 70's. I think my Chryslers with 440's and
- >383's had them.
- >
- You couldn't possibly mistake a THERMOQUAD for a Quadrojet. The
- Thermoquad has a black ( plastic/, bakalite?, composite?) body. Not
- even similar to a Quadrajet.>
- >Al
- >
- >
- >--
- >******************************************************************************
- >Al Chang (516)346-6757, FAX: (516)575-0965, email: alc@calvin.grumman.com
- >Grumman Data Systems, 111 Stewart Avenue, MS D12/25, Bethpage, New York 11714
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