50 Vintage 4bbl Carbs for $500 - Trash or Treasure???
 

So I was perusing FBMP this morning and saw and ad for a table full of carbs for $500. Owner is closing his shop and these were carbs that were removed from customer cars and tossed on the shelf. Most are in as-removed condition, but some are rebuilt. I got everything for $500 and he threw in 4 quarts of 0W20 and a few cans of brake cleaner.

I don't think I could pass up this deal; I need a Holley 4160 for the '69 Bronco, and those are $538 at Summit. Figure I've got one of those in there somewhere. I'm also guessing that I'll find one OEM carb (Q-jet, Carter, Holley, or Autolite) that will be worth what I paid for the lot.

Now I need to spend a few hours unloading and figuring out what I have.

Ok, so I spent the last few hours unboxing, Googling, tagging, re-boxing, etc. As expected, there was one carb that will allow me to recoup much (all?) of my cost - a 7028211 that's correct for a 1968 manual trans 396 or 427 in a Camaro, Chevelle, or Corvette.

Ended up with about 45 carbs:

-11 Edelbrocks - 600, 650, 750 cfm.

-6 Carters - mostly 625 cfm. Nothing special.

-2 Autolite 4100's, one rebuilt. 2 other Autolites.

-2 Motorcraft 4bbl's - nothing special.

-3 Holleys - a 750 dp, a 750 vac sec, and a 650 Street Warrior.

-9 Rochesters, mostly Quadrajets.

-5 Solex/Bocar

-4 Weber/Empi

Figure the value is about $3,600 if I sell one at a time locally and on eBay, but I don't have the time or energy for that. I'll hang on to the 750 dp and giving the 750 vac sec to a buddy. As for the rest, I'll sell the valuable ones separately, package deal the less valuable ones, and likely toss the ones that have little value and don't sell.

what are the quadrajets numbers?

1. 17085203
2. 7028211
3. Unknown
4. 17085213
5. 17054938
6. 17054927
7. 17083224
8. 7026250