old school tunnel ram and carbs question

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If that is a Motion car it really makes me question some of the mystique and values floated around for them.

Looks like something the typical backyard guy would do with some rubber fuel line.

Not impressed

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Part of that is it was the '70's and the detail was not as big a concern as today. Also you did not have all the hi-tech billet do-dadds and plumbing back then, you had to fabricate your own. Also to be honest Motion was not known for their neatness. I saw one pic and they added traction bars and spray painted them after instalation and had overspray all over the rearend and gas tank. On the V-8 Vega 454 that Motion did they just took a sledghammer and beat back the firewall. I think a dealership car built today along those lines would have had a custom firewall built IMHO because we have higher standards.

BTW, my mustang TR had a Moroso y-block mounted on a custom stainless steel mounting bracket. Looked much better than Motions setup but I have seen worse than Motions setups in old pics.

In regards to the rubber lines that is what people ran back then. Only the top fuelers and f/c's ran stainless steel braided lines. I started to see SSBL really taking off on street cars starting in the the mid '70's.