Scarcity causes higher prices. And these things should be rare the way they came apart. The first year's casting was terrible as mentioned previously. You even looked at it wrong and another screw would strip out. Maybe it was the fact that other carbs took great abuse, and we just treated the carb the same way and it didn't like it. My original carb was beyond repair by 1973. By then, it had oversized screws in about half the holes, had the fuel inlet repair kit, the bottom plug repair kit, and didn't have a decent sealing surface left. The spread-bore Holley 800 CFM carb that replaced it in 1973 is still in use today. A very early quadrajet in good condition today has to be a very, very rare item.
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