That GT carb looks really good, Drew!
Just a month or so ago I traded away two of those carbs for GTs; a C7 and a C6. The C7 was in really good shape, didn't appear to have ever been a core or rebuilt. It still had the Autolite tag on it but was missing the transfer tube. Very clean inside and no schmutz on the outside. Kept hoping that I was going to stumble across someone restoring a correct Fairlane that just "had to have" that carb....didn't happen.
The C6 was a little rougher and had been through a rebuilder shop, could see the remains of the adhesive tag on it.
The inside was a bit beat up on the C6 as well.
Didn't seem as though there was much of a market for those as cores and I needed a nice steering wheel, soooooo away they went.