uel injection has been around longer than most people think. In fact, in 1903 the Wright Brothers’ airplane was equipped with a crude but effective form that fed its engine. Shortly before World War II, Ed Winfield was granted a patent for mechanical fuel injection with Stuart Hilborn receiving a patent on his system shortly after the war, which was the design that quickly became the choice of race car builders.

By the ’50s, mechanical fuel injection was appearing on a variety of European cars and in 1957 General Motors’ Rochester fuel injection became available on Corvettes and Pontiac Bonnevilles. By 1958, development of electronically controlled systems began in earnest and Chrysler offered the Bendix Electrojector, but reliability issues caused virtually all of them to be replaced with carburetors under warranty.

ver the last 30 years I can count how many “finished” old cars and trucks I’ve owned on one hand … with two fingers. And when I say finished, I mean completely finished: paint, interior, the whole lot. Yes … just two … in 30 years.

Regardless of what that says about my ability to keep anything for any real length of time, the reason I bring it up is because both of those completely finished vehicles each had full Dynamat insulation/sound deadening prior to the interiors being done. And, suffice it to say, my opinion of said pre-upholstery material installation is quite high. However, both prior insulation jobs were performed by someone else—someone who does that sort of thing (professionally) for a living. So …

s a fitting addendum to Ron Ceridono’s in-depth look into today’s fuel-injection options for your classic truck we thought it would be great to show all the readers with ’67-72 Chevy/GMC trucks (because we know there are a few of you out there!) just how easy it is to equip your C10 with the proper EFI pump and tank setup.

A visit to see our friend Mike at FiTech Fuel Injection in Corona, California, provided us with a few laughs, as well as their new Go Fuel (PN 50015) in-tank retrofit EFI fuel pump kit to feed their Ultra Ram EFI we’ll be using on the 454 big-block powering the ’69 currently under construction at Jimenez Bros. Air Ride & Rod Shop in Riverside, California. We still needed an actual tank to fulfill FiTech’s “in tank” aspect, so down the road a little further we traveled to see another friend, Randy, at Performance Online (POL) for a direct-fit, 19-gallon aluminum fuel tank—a powdercoated black one, no less (available at an additional charge)—for the C10.