My ex buys default storage units & resell the material at our local swap meet. Called me this Am , she bought one with a bunch of tools & car parts. She said she had what some guy at the auction said was a "supercharged race motor" -- I could not get anymore info on it . Now my ex does not know a tire from a spark plug so it's anybody guess as to what she has. I can't go see it till Next Monday --- Pant -pant -- At least she learned her lesson about getting rid of stuff she knows nothing about --she got some HO scale locomotives once & afraid thtat I would want to talk her out of them took them out to sell before I saw them , had some guys talk her down from 50.00 apeice to 50 the pair. They were BR*** PFM CROWN Locomotives that the Guys that got them turned the next day for 1200.00$ Wholesale TO A DEALER !! I found out about because they were bragging about how they screwed this woman at the swap meet to a hobby shop guy that knew me & my Ex. So after that she at least gives me a heads up on stuff she knows not about. So-- What you asuppose she has --Let the speculation begin-- I think she may have a boat motor --- perhaps a 455 olds? They are common here & she has had several in pieces or short blocks. I'll let you know when I see it -- hope iots not gonna be like the 32s in the lake !!!!
I think it will be a Keith Black TF/AA motor with a complete set of spare parts. Yup, that's what it'll be. That or a /6 (slant 6)! Dave
This post would have been a whole lot cooler if you waited until next Monday afternoon and then added a final paragraph to your story. "So I finally get there, and it's ___________!!!!!" -Brad
Whatever it is "It's worth nothing love, I'll take it and dump it for you" or "No that's no race motor, but I could use it for parts"
I know a guy that received a call from a storage unit, they ask him if he wanted to buy some old car junk. BTW he has a Hotrod shop listed in the yellow pages. He buys the stuff, included he got 34 five window Ford coupe, 34 Chevy truck and lots of parts. lets say he made $10k in two day off that stuff. Lucky him
It'll probably be a junk V-6 with one of those plastic fan-type "electric blowers" off of Egay. Roger
It's refreshing just to know there is someone else on this board that knows what a br*** PFM Crown locomotive is. But what a mistake!
Maybe it is a 1957 Thunderbird F motor on a stand all rebuilt and worth a fortune, Or a Dusenburg. Gumpa
Souped up Honda motor... a sideways 4 cylinder rice burner could be adapted to a piece of vintage Detroit steel, right?! Man, that would be killer! You could put a cheesy resonator on the exhaust tip to make it sound chunkier than it actually is! Oh, man, I'm already jealous!
Hell if its anything at all then the owner of the storage place probably would have done something first. But then again there are a bunch of idiots out there. I remember a guy who owned a storage place and took over a unit with lots of Harley stuff supposely going cheap... when i got there there idoit was asking like 600 buck for a beat up junk honda frame and agured with me about it... he thought it was an old pan head frame in which he probably would not know a pan from an evo. Anyway hope this turns out to be something special for ya.
Hey, anybody seen my storage container? I misplaced it around Vegas, somewhere. It has an ex Grave Digger blower motor in it. If found let me know, thanks.
Hmmmm Key, Pacific Fast Mail, Max Grey, Shamsoga (spelling?), yep know em' well.........As to the motor, well good luck with it, if it is a race motor of any kind, be it import 4 or screaming V8, or even a big ol' Bently 4.5 liter blown motor, just get it and then build something to fit around it and go scare the hell outta yourself!
Don't think that vision hasn't played in my head several times!!! Or a full dress flatty with a Scott!!!
Strange things happen --if it had not been for Bill Ryan of Pacific Fast Mail, there would have been NO Barbie Dolls!! His brother was chief engineer for Mattell, & when they sent him to Japan to try to set up production of Barbies & he found out that the Japanese method of producing things was a whole bunch of people each working on parts of the project on the kitchen table at home--- no factories like we have --- he about ****. Came home & told Mattell forget it --- No F^&*## way can that work. Bill Had to go down , then take him back to Japan to show him thats EXACTLY how all the PFM trains were made & that it worked just fine. Model railroader had a story on Shinohara track a few years back -- BEST track made , their turnouts are fantastic--- It's all made in the Guys BA*****T by his family & a few friends -- thats why it's always in short supply.
I think it's cooler to build a little wishful thinking from all the HAMBERS -- who knows maybe the positive thoughts & speculation about what it is will turn the Sows ear into a silk purse --- of course thats easier if you got a silk sow to start with!!
It will be one of those WWII Harleys still packed in cosmoline. They finally found the warehouse in Oakland, Ca. where those were stored at.
That's why I buy the occasional Lotto ticket, so I can dream a little . We got an emergency call to a local storage place several years ago, a worker was doing the rounds and found a rented unit that had been left unlocked. They called the fire dept. because it was full of stolen military ordnance (frag grenades, plastic explosive, etc.) and the guy also had a lot of terrorist type 'do it yourself' books in there. We backed up and camped out till the EOD unit from Ft. Campbell got there.
I almost got a deuce three window for fifty bucks but it was actually a rusty Dodge Aspen with factory air.....no ***le, but the radio still worked!!!!!
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