Nash points out an interesing issue. The cars didn't come with a dual snorkel. Back then, they would give you whatever you wanted. If you looked at the goat with the dual snorkel and said, I would like a dual snorkel on the bird, they would have bolted on a dual snorkel, and they would have bolted it on for free if that's what it took to make the sale.

(They still do it: I said, "You have a $54k sticker price on this car, and you're telling me that I have to pay an additional $110 for an ashtray? " They said that the ashtray would be no charg, it had to be ordered, will be in Tuesday, and I could swing by and wait in the install because it only took a few minutes.)

The thing that sheds interesting light on the possibility of the cars leaving the dealership with a dual snorkel is covered in the 69 factory service manual. It clearly states that the cas wasn't offered with a dual snorkel breather.

Why would the book state what the car didn't come with. Technical manuals don't go into what the car doesn't have. For instance, if you crack the Yugo service manual, it doesn say: "Yugos are not offered with a V8 engine," simply they don't list things that cars don't come with if they never came with it. And unless I have overlooked it, this is the only case, whereby the service manual goes into detail about what the car doesn't have. That seems to be a signal to the technician that while doing new car warranty work that they may encounter something that wasn't offered, meaning that the dealer chunked it on in order to make the sale. The end result would be the interperation that it came with a dual snorkel because it left the dealer's lot with one.