That guy must be sniffing glue.about 2 years ago,I came accross a bunch of rare stuff that I sold on Ebay.The stuff was from a friend who was managinging the estate sale of a deceased race car/hot rod builder.
We had 3 brand new 1969 covette L88 crate motors in the boxes from 1969.Never ran,or opened.They were actually rare unassembled units that were inteneded to be sold to racers.Each consisted of all the parts needed to build the entire engine but in boxes,and all were date coded to dates that could have been used to replacte or repair any corvette or COPO car.2 sold locally,and one made it to Eaby.We got $4500 for the thing complete from pan to carb.We also had a rare shortblock that is actually the 327 HEMI chevy mystery motor.It seems the heads were stolen,but we have the bottom end and intake,both of which are radically different from a standard 327 chevy.It has a bigblock sized timing cover and crank snout,and GM pistons that have a Hemi type dome on them,and the lifter valley is cast in a scalloped shape to clear the pushrods.The guy also had a 427 mystery motor,which I believe the family sold to the Garlits museum.Right now in the shop,we have 2 more brand new 454 bare blocks from 1973 stitting still in crates,as well as dozens of sets of GM forged bigblock pistons and rods brand new in the boxes.We can ahrdly give the stuff away.I doubt anybody will pay $7500 for that manifold.a few weeks ago and entire date code correct ZL1 engine sold for $16,000,and that was a running turn ket piece{it was hot rodded,but had the right block,heads and crank.so why would this guy expect $7500 for that intake.Heck it is hard to find anybody with $7500 cash to buy the 69 Z28 that thing is supoosed to be on.I bet he will be putting that thing back on his shelf for a while.
