Thread: If one waits long enough...

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Guys,
I have been around here for years but almost entirely on the Cobra site. But a strange thing happened this last month. To make a long story short, my Daughter has been put in charge of a huge collection of GM muscle car motors!

A Garage find to have wet dreams over. I have now been appointed Executor of the following; this is not even close to a full list yet, simply because I couldn't move everything to see it all.

Quick Synopsis of what happened; Father N Law to my Daughter spent 40 years simply collecting HP GM Motors! As far as I know he never built a car, his sole interest/hobby was getting these motors (and associated parts) and rebuilding them.

ALL motors are 4 bolt mains, All are cast with PASS on the blocks. (I have a few casting numbers and ID numbers but not all yet- I wasn't ready to walk into THREE Double Wide garages to find what I had found!)

At least 4 - 454-s
" " 4 - 396-s
" " 3 - 409's!
" " 3 - 302-s
" " 3-4 427's

Not one motor we could get to showed any Honing, Decking, or boring. Not one with any visible damage. As long as he has had these I'm thing I.E.; a guy had a new Z-28 and totaled the car. The Owner had standing orders at numerous junk yards in the area and every time a HP car came in they called him in and he bought the drive trains.

Numerous Muncie T22 (Ops!) ROCK CRUSHER TRANSMISSIONS.
Tools, large jacks, large lifts, welders (One new Lincoln TIG still in plastic), commercial drill press. It would take two of Brents pages to list everything, but everything I saw looked almost brand new.

OK, "THE" question, sell as a complete package, sell each motor separately, assemble each motor to specs "The Right Way" and sell independently? All the proceeds will be going to the widow with one exception, my daughter is taking one 409 for her 1945 (Yes 1945) GMC one ton Truck.

A garage find that makes an Old Hot Rodders heart skip more than one beat.

DV