Scott Smith is a self-taught Chrysler historian, keeping muscle-car culture alive, one carburetor at a time. A few decades ago, Smith set up Harms, a small shop behind his home in Spokane Valley, Washington, and earned a reputation in Mopar circles as the go-to guy to restore the Carter and Holley carburetors that Chrysler used during the heyday of the muscle-car era.
Now, a couple of generations later, Smith is among the painstaking preservationists. Carburetors can be grimy and finicky. “There’s not a lot of people that like to mess with carburetors,” Smith says. “It’s kind of a mystery item to most people. They look at it, and it’s complicated. There are screws and things to turn.”
In his shop, he keeps a trove of old Chrysler reference materials he’s collected to…
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