DW42;98705 wroteIt has my favourite nose for a 240. I don't know what the carb would have been in 1980 -- it looks like a single carb, but I assume it's not a Stromberg like on my 1971 144.
Yeah, it looks more like an SU HIF6 or HS6 than a Stromberg. I may be wrong, but didn't GLEs of that era come standard with a K-Jet B21E? As Rob said, there is something going on there.