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08-09-2012, 06:06 PM | #1 |
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How much is my 1931 Model A motor worth?
Hay just joined and was wondering how much my 1931 long block is worth, the Vin is A4545689. I also have another one that has *RF4274 * on it, just wondering on what their worth, and what model the second one is. Thanks in advance
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08-09-2012, 06:17 PM | #2 |
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Re: How much is my 1931 Model A motor worth?
The second one is a Ford replacement engine RF= Richmond Ford.
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08-09-2012, 06:18 PM | #3 |
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Re: How much is my 1931 Model A motor worth?
From the information provided, its worth somewhere between $50 and $2000.
Seriously, IS IT RUNNING? Was it rebuilt recently? By Whom? What features? What is the compression at each cylinder? How many miles on it? Answers to those questions might provide more informed answers. |
08-09-2012, 06:35 PM | #4 |
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Re: How much is my 1931 Model A motor worth?
They don't run, I bought both of them with a model A sulfer machine. The Replacement was stuck when I got it, the other was spinning free until this year when it got rain in through the water neck I think, and now there is surface rust on the piston and cylinder wall. Basically their long blocks.
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08-09-2012, 07:03 PM | #5 |
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Re: How much is my 1931 Model A motor worth?
Where are you located?
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08-09-2012, 07:06 PM | #6 |
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08-09-2012, 07:08 PM | #7 |
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Re: How much is my 1931 Model A motor worth?
I have come home to find engines laying in front of the garage ---5 or 6 have appeared that way, I didn't want them bad enough to go pick them up , at Hershey this year I bought a short block---it was up the aisle from where I was staying, every time I walked by it called me, looked at it several times, std pistons, no signs of cracks,clean not rusty water jacket- 90$, --when I got it home and apart-still had original centerlock pistons,cam bores in middle of standard specs, machining marks still there ---A person that is just starting to hoard will pay more, a hoarder that is starting to think he has too many will wait till you will deliver them.
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08-09-2012, 07:10 PM | #8 |
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Re: How much is my 1931 Model A motor worth?
Aren't you the one in Santa Rosa? if so I could swing by and give you an idea.
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08-09-2012, 07:19 PM | #9 |
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Re: How much is my 1931 Model A motor worth?
Lodi, CA
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08-09-2012, 07:21 PM | #10 |
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The head is off on one, I'll check the piston.
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08-09-2012, 07:36 PM | #11 |
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All I could find on the pistons were 40 and some letters like front or something like that.
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08-09-2012, 08:05 PM | #12 |
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Re: How much is my 1931 Model A motor worth?
Lodi I am just down Hi-way 99 from you in Manteca. Your block is bore .40 over and front means that part of the piston points to the front of the block. I am looking for a good long block but can't go over $150.00. So PM me your phone number and may be I can come and take a look at it. If you are interested. Richard/ Manteca
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08-09-2012, 10:59 PM | #13 | |
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I felt like a "hoarder" when my dad brought down a spare engine. "Who has a spare engine?", I thought. "Spare water pump, maybe, but a spare engine?" Sorry, had to jump in. Now, back to the sale.
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08-10-2012, 02:55 AM | #14 |
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I have spare engines for all of my old vehicles-there's a flathead Chrysler 6 out in the pole barn, along with a flathead "Go Devil" Willys jeep engine, and three Model A engines. I like to accumulate "castings"-the parts that often aren't repopped. I'll always grab a good manifold or a transmission,especially if it is cheap. The Dodge engine was $25 at a farm auction-no one else wanted it, and they put it in the back of my truck with a front-end loader-How could I say no?
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08-11-2012, 01:36 AM | #15 |
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Re: How much is my 1931 Model A motor worth?
One member of the club gets $500.00 for a block. He does not guarantee anything. If it is no good come back and buy another one for $500.00. I gave two engines away recently to club members and they were good engines- no cracks and the bearings were good. I wished I would have taken them apart and looked at them. Two or three members said I messed up. The two that I gave the engines to always say thanks and I hear them mention my name when showing off their running engines. I do not think I will need them and I would just let them lay around for ten more years and they would probably be hauled to the scrap yard by some family member.
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08-11-2012, 08:34 AM | #16 |
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I just bought a complete engine, .040 overbore, Unblown (In good shape) needing valve work, for 75$
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01-28-2016, 11:52 AM | #18 |
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Re: How much is my 1931 Model A motor worth?
I am a little unsure on this thread I would like to know the answer as well. My father died a little while ago and he rebuilt model A's for a living... I have hundreds of blocks and transmissions water pumps radiators and the like. I have a guy offering me 25 dollars a block they have been checked for cracks .. they are just the short blocks.. little help here
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01-28-2016, 12:18 PM | #20 |
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If you get offered $ 100 take it! Wayne
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