Holly or Thermoquad

Hum, ethier would work, as stated above, it's a personal choice from here. With the auto trans, i think I'd go for the T-Q at this point. Check out thermoquads.com (http://thermoquads.com/) for a strip kit. ( jets) to help tune it up.

Oh, many T-Q's start with a 9.:-D

How many ports (Vacuum ports) are on the front of the carb?

Reason I ask is that a smogger T-Q would need some work to work well on a non smog application. When you have the time to check the number, go to the T-Q site and read up on it. The site owner, David, is a striaght up guy that does some realllly good work, stock or modified.