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1969 383 HP Block

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cam383

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hey guys long time no hear.I'm currently doing up a stroker 440 my race car and I'm selling my 383.she is a 1969 hp block,bored 30 over,509 purple shaft cam,12.5 pop up pistons,425hp.this engine will run mid twelves all day no problem.I'm asking $4000.00 OBO.thanx for reading cam383. You can reach me at 1-250-964-2128 after 6:00 pm or e-mail me at cam383@telus.net
 
You probably couldn't sell it for $400. Nothing against what you have, but nobody will pay for much of anything. I'm scrapping stuff right and left. Today I scrapped a running 5 cylinder deutz air cooled diesel, a running 440 steel crank motor, and a '72 new yorker with another running 440 steel crank motor. Tomorrow the rest of my big block 727's will go, except for a few I'm gonna keep for myself. A perfect duster passenger fender-same thing. After that I'll scrap the '72 duster project car. It's just not worth trying to sell anything most of the time. I'd advise you to keep your 383, it's better than giving it away to someone for next to nothing or outright scrapping it.
 
That deutz could have easily been shipped. I have a forklift to put it in the back of my truck. Hell, that's how I got it to the scrapyard. I have a buddy that works at a heavy equipment company-they let me ship for their cost plus 5 or 10 percent, and they have a forklift to unload stuff off my truck. Problem is, everyone always has some reason or another why it's a great deal but they just can't do it. I used to get extremely frustrated about this. My position was "Jesus Christ, I'm almost PAYING YOU to take the part. Please stop running away from a get-rich deal. Just sit still and let me pitch the money at you. Nope-didn't work. Now I just scrap it and wash my hands of it. It's by far the best way I've found to deal with the "I wish"es. A '72 duster will either get sold very cheap on Monday or it'll get mashed too. That, along with another burst of 400/440/727 diarrhea and a bunch of big block heads and crankshafts. A few other odds and ends like a duster fender and a couple other body parts I can't remember and I'll be rid of all the crap.
 
well crap ..if id have known about the shipping cut youve got ..my boss would have jumped on it..ahh well live and learn lol
 
No, he probably wouldn't have. SOMETHING would have come up. It wouldn't have mattered if I'd offered it to him for $200 and offered to eat the shipping, it would have fucked up somehow. As it is, I got about $90 for it and I'm just glad I got something for it. I consider it a lesson learned-just don't buy shit, no matter how cheap you think it is, if you're not absolutely sure you're gonna use it.
 
Yeah I'm trying to clean house a little with all the mopar crap I've accumulated over the years. Bunch of yahoos calling and e-mailing. I don't need to sell the stuff quickly so I can be selective with my dealings. But yeah sometimes I think it would be cheaper to just toss all this old stuff out...but I know someone can use it.
 
My thing is, you can only make it so easy for someone else to get it and use it. At some point they have to actually be willing to BUY the stuff. When any price is too high, any amount of trouble (no matter how small) is too much for them to go to, they've buyer's marketed themselves right out of the part. When they push it that far, it does indeed become a buyer's market; and the scrapyard is the buyer. See, there're a few unspoken assumptions buyers (or should I say non-buyers) operate on as they decline to buy stuff for ever-decreasing prices: 1) They assume that selling the part to an individual is more attractive than junking it for a very low price. 2) They assume that the seller has a significant desire to see the part not be scrapped.

Both of these assumptions are often true. However, as the price continues downward on the price continuum, and the amount of trouble they want the seller to go to continues upward on the hassle continuum, there comes a point when the sometimes-little bit of money you might get extra by not junking it is not worth the hassle and aggravation you often get by trying to sell to an individual. It is at this juncture that the desire to see the part not get scrapped is outweighed by the other two factors. It is also at this juncture that the life of the Chinese people gets further improved.
 
When I sold my running 75 Duster for $750 with an 8 3/4 and dics brakes, I gave the guy a machined '69 383 block, a machined '72 360 block and an ass and a half load of misc Mopar parts just to get them out of my way, and to make it easier for me to move. As a matter of fact the oniy things I held onto were a 440 short block, a set of 906 heads with adjustable rockers, and a nice set of finned B/RB polished valve covers which have, until this post, not even been thought about. The block may eventually become a stroker, or the next batch of Kia's...
 
Preachin' to the choir, kids... I can't sell two Conquest TSIs for less than scrap value just to get them out of my way, and both of them are viable cars.
 
Hell, scrap 'em then-get them gone. Oh, for the record, the duster did in fact sell yesterday, over the phone. A guy went and looked at it, and he ended up buying it. He paid my ex and her husband for it, which will get applied toward my share of the mortgage bill this month. I'm glad he did, but it would certainly have gone to Blaze Recycling today if he had not. I got raped of course, but I still got a little more than I'd have gotten scrapping it, plus I didn't have to haul my buddy's trailer on a 60 mile round trip.
 
Actually, a friend and I might get together with a bunch of beer later in the week and cut the '87 into little bitty pieces with the Sawzall, just out of spite and lack of anything better to do. :D
 
The '87 Conquest went to the crusher last week, still sporting the $500+ exhaust system the previous owner paid to install (full 3" mandrel-bent aluminized pipe, turbo to tailpipe, with a brand-new muffler). No one at any Starion/Conquest forum would give me $100+shipping for it, so fine--go find out what a system like that costs with all the correct hangers welded on, the O2 sensor bung right where it needs to be, and a fully-welded muffler right where it needs to be... and I could have shipped it at no cost damned-near anywhere in MI or WI, plus quite a few places in northern Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.

That exhaust was gorgeous. A local muffler shop couldn't have duplicated it with crush-bent tubing for three times what I was asking. Poseurs.
 
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