[NYGTO]

Originally Posted by 60sstuff

Hi Gary,

I thought your ‘65 Blue Charcoal was a “second week of February” out of the PON Plant.

Yes Chris, you are correct my mistake. It was a second week of February build.

I have no reason to doubt the previous owner of my Blue Charcoal GTO as he's a good acquaintance of mine and he knows the original owner well.

[Tom Vaught]

Originally Posted by Jeff Hamlin

You would think the "Spring" design went away quickly due to allowing deteriorating foam element pieces to get sucked into the carb and the full screen came into play?

Just guessing here.

Unfortunately, except for the repops, every Tri-Power from the 64-65 days
seen is the junk yard, 1967 time frame had the foams completely gone but the lids, screens and bases (and wingnuts & studs), were still on the carbs.

The foams were a bad idea all the way around.

The Police Officer of my town (former State of California racer) had me get rid of the foams and screens early on. Said the paper was much better.

Tom V.

[chrisp]

Originally Posted by Canby GTO

My GTO was built Jan 9,1965 in Kansas. As far as I know you can't get the foam filter anymore and so I used the paper filter that doesn't use the spring support.

I understand , but it can be made . I repo the tri-power foam filters & i could make them as well . That is why i asked if there was any script on it if you remember .

[Ducks Goat]

Just for the sake of showing, this is the original screen and base on my '67 GTO.