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Old 03-05-2024, 02:35 PM   #29
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Default Re: Value of an Un-Restored Model A Engine

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Originally Posted by ModelA29 View Post
At a recent SoCal estate sale A/B blocks and A/B/C cranks were sitting unsold for $20. These had been cleaned and inspected when they were disassembled. At the Pomona swap meet a month ago there was a guy with 2 complete engines carb-dist-etc - he was hoping to sell them for enough to get his $70 space fee back.
I had a similar experience a few years ago at an estate auction. Pallets with 5+ complete engines each selling for no more than $100. Most of the buyers took the best looking one off the pallet and let the auctioneers scrap the rest.
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