Looking down the throat of speed.

Every traditional car guy has taken this view at some point in his life – or her life, as the case may be. Some have come away with singed eyebrows moments after taking in this view. I’ve escaped that fate in my life thus far, although I got a warm breath near my face a time or two. This is the throat of a Holley four barrel carburetor, pretty much the standard of hot rodding carburetion since, well, since a really long time ago before I was born, probably beginning in the fifties, but I can’t recall off the top of my head. This is a 600cfm model. We upgraded to a 750cfm carb, and this one still sits in pieces out in the garage on the work bench. It’s a site that’s much prettier than the rest of the workbench, which should be all cool and hospital clean with tools neatly arranged and all that, but it’s a wreck, so I just shot this nice little image that makes up about one one-hundredth of the view.