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Stromberg carburetor display only one I have seen

Wow!

And I'll "second" your WOW !!! What a nice display piece !

And Stan is charging over $600 for just the carburetor without the extra parts.

dhort wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 07, 2019 12:34 pm

And Stan is charging over $600 for just the carburetor without the extra parts.

For $15.75...I'll take two !!

Very Nice Tom!

Hank

I'd take it!! =)

That is really cool, I've never seen one before. Is this something you just found or have you had it in your stash for awhile?

I have several of the manifold, tube, muff setups but never have seen a new old stock one.

I have, over the years, bought several new old stock OF's but never with all the parts.

"And Stan is charging over $600 for just the carburetor without the extra parts."

When I started rebuilding these I could buy them at any swap meet or off ebay for $35 all day long. I should have bought every one I ever saw as I cannot buy them for any kind of reasonable price any more. I usually have a waiting list for the next ones I get done.

People now want $250-350 for cores missing pieces and $5-600 for "rebuilts" that are just cleaned and a modern needle and seat installed, no new plugs, no new throttle shafts, no much of anything but a douche and a polish, no mating surfaces re-machined, etc.

I'm comfortable charging what I charge for a rebuilt one. Out of well over 500 OF's rebuilt I have had 3 returned by unhappy buyers, one a screw came loose on a throttle plate, one developed a leak and one the guy had for three years -- never installed -- and decided he wanted his money back so I bought it back. I have requested several others be returned because the new gas was softening the tip on the needle I was using and have done a couple other warranty deals.

I remember seeing an ad cut in one of the period magazines showing this exact display. Of coarse , in a black ink in a rag magazine doesn’t do justice. Wonder if it originally had the choke control attached, as I’m not seeing it?

Thanks for all the great comments . I have had it for many years kind of rediscovered it when I moved in to my new building. I would like to see the ad where this display is featured as always Tom