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danny_galaga:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on March 02, 2007, 09:14:54 am ---
Ever seen an engine with 10 years of insect infestation?  Every seal in it is gone, every rubber part long trashed, and unless it's a really high end engine it's not worth the hours and hours to pull, disassemble the block, clear out every opening and channel, and then reassemble with all new seals.

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ever rebuilt an old engine? its a piece of cake. you replace ALL those parts anyway if you are doing a proper job...

ChadTower:

Right, but that amount of labor makes it not worth doing, financially, for most engines.  Especially if you have to spend hours pulling out twigs and larvae.  If you enjoy it, sure, but just to make the cash it's a loser.

danny_galaga:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on March 03, 2007, 10:08:34 am ---
Right, but that amount of labor makes it not worth doing, financially, for most engines.  Especially if you have to spend hours pulling out twigs and larvae.  If you enjoy it, sure, but just to make the cash it's a loser.

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yes, if you were to do anything before selling them. if you just give em a hose and auction them, the buyer/s will do whatever to them- their call...

ChadTower:

That's what I'd do.  Take whatever you can get initially and have the buyers haul them off.  The quick cash, maybe keep one of those F1 cars to mess around with.

boykster:
If it was my "find", I'd definately take the time to examine all the cars and look for any very rare ones, including the F1 type racing cars.

It'd be a shame to sell off the lot for a song, only to find that a rare low production type car was in the batch.  My dad sold his '64 AC 289 Shelby Cobra after my mother parked it on an incline, the emergency brake failed and the car crashed into a wall and was totalled.  He sold it in the early 80's for a few thousand dollars....that car later in the 90's was valued at over $200k!

He loved that car....

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