RARE engine...can be all yours for only $$,$$$$.$$ ebay

Here is the baby....yummy lookin....and rare as all getout....the famed....
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=6057&item=2488465030&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW


Greg

 

for that much the seller better polish em.

 

i'll take it now where do i find some money ...hmmm maybe i can sell something..maybe me?

 

that would look good in one of my abones
and if i had like 30.000 dollars to spend i would bid on it, seriously...
and if i had more money i would buy that j white 33 lakeish coupe and put it in and have the hemi out of that into something else

 

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i think that engine stands out pretty good even without polish, actually i wouldnt want "mine" polished if i had an ardun.. looks more raw and stricktly business unpolished

 

insane amount of money for us... but theres history in those parts, its worth every penny.

 

i'd rather pay 25 grand for that than for one of Boyd's "LS1 with an engine cover" Chevys...

 

ill take it

 

the pricing is scary,but boy how cool is that engine!I would like to have it in my living room,make a coffe table out of it.

 

Very cool, except for those A/N fittings and the alternator/pulley set up, that looks like*****.

 

Time to go look at that Ardun issue of HRM--the fourth issue in the flathead building series in 1956--see what they're supposed to look like...

 

For 35,000*****ing bucks, it should be in a goddamn museum.

 

Where's Gooch?

But seriously that's a nice collection of parts but for me somehow on an engine, it just doesn't work. I know all about the history and all that but if you look at any other "Collectable" from the 50's, no one is paying this kinda cash for stuff. The fact that it's rare or has history just doesn't explain it. At least not to me.

I think I'd buy the heads if I had the cash, or the injection, or the mag, etc. But even if I had the cash to burn I wouldn't buy the whole motor. I can't exactly explain why...

 

well, repro Arduns are way over $20 grand, early fuel injection is worth a lot and costs a lot to refurbish, a high quality/fancy parts build of the basic engine****embly is another pile of thousand dollar bills, the heads are supposed to be NOS original, and of course even new heads would cost lots in machine work and parts because many original Ardun valvetrain parts aren't really useable. Plus the world has been whipped into a lather by the recent Rodder's Journal article...that much money sounds quite reasonable if you look at what it would take to get an Ardun running any possible way short of finding a perfect fossil in a junkyard...
You can't play with any sort of early rodding hardware anymore without noticing that the world around us has gone mad.
We'll probably be a bit better off when the current nostalgia fad moves on, but there will still be too many of us, some with too much money, chasing too few early goodies.

 

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well, repro Arduns are way over $20 grand, early fuel injection is worth a lot and costs a lot to refurbish, a high quality/fancy parts build of the basic engine****embly is another pile of thousand dollar bills, the heads are supposed to be NOS original, and of course even new heads would cost lots in machine work and parts because many original Ardun valvetrain parts aren't really useable. Plus the world has been whipped into a lather by the recent Rodder's Journal article...that much money sounds quite reasonable if you look at what it would take to get an Ardun running any possible way short of finding a perfect fossil in a junkyard...
You can't play with any sort of early rodding hardware anymore without noticing that the world around us has gone mad.
We'll probably be a bit better off when the current nostalgia fad moves on, but there will still be too many of us, some with too much money, chasing too few early goodies.

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very well put.

 

"But even if I had the cash to burn I wouldn't buy the whole motor. I can't exactly explain why... "

I have the same feeling about many modern attempts to build perfect forties or fifties rods--a LOT of them are done by well heeled collectors who attempt to****emble EVERY early rodding icon part they have ever heard of into one car--typically Ardun, SCOT, DuVall, wire wheels, quickchange, Harmon Collins, and everything else that causes a flathead riot on Ebay in one heap, leading to a car that's just as inapproprite as the modern streetrods that attempt to incorporate all known fads into one '48 Chevy truck with roadster conversion-pro street-backwards doors-$10,000 stereo-blower-air conditioning and so on. Bolting the entire contents of a museum together does not produce a successful car.

 

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MY DAD HAS ENDLESS CASH SO THE MONEY SURE AIN'T A THANG

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All I can think of is, thanks a lot Craig Jackson (speed channel for showing it) e bay and antiques road show. They have all done a good job of locking the little / low buck guy totally out of the ballpark. Swap meet prices have gotten ridicules. And attendance is way down. Car prices are totally out of control. Im just glad I collected a few things before.
The ardun heads I saw at the swap meet 2 years ago for 5000 look cheap now.

 

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I've had that thought lots of times and that's one aspect of it for me. But from a purely logical standpoint, your return on investment is bound to be lower if you buy all that stuff at once.

Think about it... Has anybody ever gotten back what they put into a really high end build on a motor when they sell the car? I didn't.

So if you run through the numbers... 35K for the motor, 10 to 20K for a 33 Coupe (probably), at least 10K on paint, and at least 5K for interior, plus all the little chingas that go into building a high-end Traditional rod, and you're probably pushing 80k in the build at the very least.

So now you go to sell the car...

Unless you're putting that motor back in the Emil Dietrick car and restoring it, you're probably not going to get much more than 60K for the car if you sell it.

Now think if you'd just used a set of Ardun repops and some stroms or even repopped injection...

You might actually have made a few grand on the back end. Not much but something, and I'd wagor that the guy that buys that motor, already has 80K in his car to start. But that's just a guess.

Then there's the fact that I would never buy a "complete" engine off of Ebay and expect it to be built as good as I would have built it. I didn't read any garuntees on the block etc...

 

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All I can think of is, thanks a lot Craig Jackson (speed channel for showing it) e bay and antiques road show. They have all done a good job of locking the little / low buck guy totally out of the ballpark. Swap meet prices have gotten ridicules. And attendance is way down. Car prices are totally out of control. Im just glad I collected a few things before.
The ardun heads I saw at the swap meet 2 years ago for 5000 look cheap now.

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You can say that again, every car show I attend the swap meet has been extremely low on vendors and spectators.....friggen ebay has to be the culpret...kind of sad when you think about it...just another part of our american culture that is being killed by the computer age...fuck

Greg

 

Anybody remember Barrett Jackson 2 years ago? 34 roadster with a ardun ( history with a gmc 6) 135K. Is that when it started?

 

I remember that car....I friggen loved it, what a beauty...

 

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Anybody remember Barrett Jackson 2 years ago? 34 roadster with a ardun ( history with a gmc 6) 135K. Is that when it started?

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hehe... i see the sarcasm, this nostalgic trend has been a steady climb.

in the late 80s/early 90s a friend and i use to sit and gawk at our dads old photos from the 40s/50s, hot rod mags from the 50s/60s etc. but our little minds and pocket books couldnt imagine where we would start building one of these, combine this with MIA fathers, MIA from high school and only the 2 of us to learn from each other, a hot rod wasnt going to happen.

so we turned to muscle cars which were plentiful, running, and with quite a few paychecks in the bank could be ours.

styling ques from mothballed magazines and the "do it yourself mentality" were our guides.

i bet there are hundreds of people like me and my friend out there, we're slightly more mature, skilled, and making some cash, building up a hotrod emulating those from our fathers youth is now realistic. id wager this can be a contributing factor to the price hikes some of you old timers see with parts 40yrs and older.

 

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by the zip code; Des Moines WA and the name dghia; Dual Ghia

I would say it most likely belongs to the local pizza guy

his place is a museum.

priceless history there,

wonder why he's selling?

Paul

 

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Yeah, and I can imagine the horror when the happy new owner fires it up and it immediately lets go a rod or starts squealing in an agony of tortured metal

Am I sad or what?

 

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Where's Gooch?

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the bidding isnt over yet.

 

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Time to go look at that Ardun issue of HRM--the fourth issue in the flathead building series in 1956--see what they're supposed to look like...

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Okay....

 

part of the story..