Check evil bay for fuel filters.you can buy em in bulk cheap. You can get them clear plastic so you can monitor the rust,or glass with the replacable screens.that blocked off line may just be a vent from the mechanical fuel pump.
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BTW back in the day I bought a 68 GTO 400/4spd/ rag top at Reedmans for $900.00 but only owned it for a bit.My neighbor decided to sell his 68 Vette so i sold the goat & just about everything I owned to buy that for $3k...427/435/4spd. As far as race tracks,not strips I remember Langhorn. Took my driveing test at Trevose.
Wow! We could have crossed paths back then. I took my drives test at the Trevose Baracks across from the Sears & Strawbridges in the Neshaminy Mall in ‘76.
By the Mid 1970s Langhorne Speedway was closed, I just remember the tall wood walls that closed in the track. Some big names raced there. I grew up just about 7 miles from there in Levittown.
Reedmans brings back memories! I bought so many cars and pickup from them - not for any other reason other than it was easy to get financing there. I think if you had a pulse, license and in a hurry to get the car out of there you had it made!
For all those reading this but never had the “Reedman” experience, here goes -
The last time I bought anything there was a new 454 SS pick up truck in 1990 so things could have changed if you were there afterwards.
From the customer parking lot everybody walked through their general greeting area (was a walkway through a double wide trailer as I remember). Everyone got a chance to win a color TV every day. After you were greeted you walked through their pre-owned lot with some “teaser” and dream cars right in your face.
Down a slope to the entry to the showrooms. Jaguars were the first of the many showrooms, Chevrolet was next and down the ramp to the Chrysler, Lincoln and Mercury showrooms. There was over 100 cars inside the carpeted rooms with velvet and foil walls and chandeliers everywhere. Cars were constantly switched around, coming and going everyday through the large glass doors. I use to kill time just going there to sit inside all the new cars.
All cars and trucks were automatically discounted (at least 10%) on their own windshield signs and they put those same discounts on the hard to get cars that other dealers were marking up over MSRP. Just be aware that those deals were first come, first served.
You could take any car for a test drive but it was on a fenced in Oval track (big deal!) if you were interested in any car they would look up if they had one in your color with your preferred options and then you would jump into a waiting car to take you to were there were rows of your desired cars for you to look over.
They had a special fenced in area where all the Corvettes and Camaros were stored, it was known as the “Bullpen.”
Reedmans had a system for putting all customers through several steps, a few different rooms and meeting the manager, the finance manager and maybe one of the Reedmans would come congratulate you. From the moment you decided you wanted a particular car, expect to be tied up in their “process” for the next 2 hrs. While you’re signing a dozen or more papers, Reedmans is at work detailing your car for delivery.
I believe the quickest I ever got in and out of that place was 90 minutes.
The last time I was there I came close to purchasing a loaded, 2005 C6 convertible but they had a hold on convertibles and tried too hard to push me into a Vette I didn’t want. I did wind up with a 2005 convertible vette in Lemans Blue, tan top with tan interior just a couple months later, the following year, a 2006 Lemans Blue Z06 manual trans that I still have to this day.
Rich
Made you look!
