yeah you would think they would go for peanuts really, but carbs are sought after and some die hard fans love them bloody tuning them so often arrrrgh! love the sound tho of my 45's hehe. you could get a set of solexes and manifold pretty cheap, like err $300 and rebuild them yourself. plus get them tuned for about $60 for a basic tune i suppose. some people have spent hundreds getting them tuned to perfection.