Biohazard

Nobody would have changed the studs on his car, it basically a virgin.

It might have had a gasket similar in thickness to the one under my Valiant's Holley 1920 single-barrel - rigid, about 1/8" thick, and a bit more papery than the ~1/4" gasket on there now.

Let me get a picture... (EDIT: Will have to wait until morning. I don't have one that shows the gasket. Yet.)

-Kurt