treekiller's recent thread sparked my thinking on this. Anyone have any stories of finding that rare part or car which you got a good deal on or traded for, etc?

Here's mine. Earlier this year was looking for a stock 390 to put in my truck, as I was planning to pull the built 390 from it and slap it in my Cobra. I looked in the buy & sell and found a guy listing a couple stock 390's and gave him a call. Through the conversation I asked him if by chance he had any 428's, to which he replied "I've got one better".....Ok, I'm thinking a 427, and sure enough he says he's got a standard bore 427 sideoiler with stock dual quad intake & carbs. Oh geeeez....I'm kinda excited now.....How much are you asking for it? He says, well, I want to get 5k out of it. Hmmm....My father in law (CHR member Larry) and I went out to this guys house out in the woods somewhere and started tearing it apart. Little dirty, but good heads with 2.09 valves, cylinders are perfect and measured 4.23 all the way down the bores and virtually no wear ring along the top of the cylinders (very low mile).....Didn't really want the dual quad set up and offered him 3k for everything except the carbs and intake.

Done deal. Standard bore blocks alone on ebay go for 4000-7000, so it turned out to be a pretty good deal. Sounds nice in the Cobra by the way!