Brand name and company history mean absolutely nothing these days.

A set of ACDelco brake drums for my Toronado were utter crap. They looked like copies of copies of copies of copies of copies... The cast iron finish was horrible. I had to have a quarter inch of the shoulder inside the drum machined off in order for the brake shoes to fit. So much for a once reputable brand name. Carter , by the way, went bankrupt in the 1980s. Who knows who's using the name today?

All of those fuel pumps are made in the same slave labor factory and sold under different names. The first one I bought failed after a few hundred miles. The second one wouldn't pump a single drop of fuel straight out of the box.

I had Then&Now Automotive rebuild the original glass bowl pump and it's been working perfectly since installation last year - a couple thousand miles.

Find an original pump for your car on ebay and send it to Then&Now for a rebuild. You're going to need it eventually. Might as well be prepared.

The alternative is to install an electric fuel pump but where's the fun in that?


1950 Chevrolet 3100 (Ol' Roy)

1939 Packard Standard Eight Coupe (The Phantom) | 1956 Cadillac Coupe de Ville (The Bismarck) | 1964 Ford Galaxie 500 coupe |1966 Ford Mustang (Little Red) | 1969 Pontiac GTO (The Dishpit) I 1979 Ford F-100 | 1976 Ford F-150 (Big Red) | 1995 Ford F-150 (Newt)