Shelby 66 gt350 block value

[Norcal607]

Hello,

I have a vin verified 66 gt350 block and have found the owner of the car as well. I have the entire engine in pieces from the carb to the pan but the shelby owner only wants the block with main caps. I have 3 K cars and know that finding the original block is like winning the lottery. I feel bad having what should be with his car but what are peoples thoughts on value of the block with main caps or should I only consider selling the entire engine with all its original parts? Thank you in advance!

[6s1640]

Hi Norcal607,

Are you in it to make a few bucks or just break even?  IIRC, just caps could be between $500 and $800.  A regular rebuildable 289 block, $200 to $500.  Matching VIN and date codes, extra, $2500.  So, somewhere between what you have in it and $2500.  A few years ago, a picked up a k-code long block, with VIN for $5000.  You can always sell off the pieces to make up the difference.

Best of luck

Cory

[camp upshur]

It is your engine, sell it as you please.
There are some sub-points when assessing it's value:
-has the block been bored? 289s are shakey over .030 requiring at least a sonic to go .040, then sleeving 8 comes into play which is time consuming, uncertain and expensive;
-the block, if already bored .030 and without caps, is really valueless to anyone except that one VIN owner, the other engine parts usually live on if intact or not mortally modified.

[67 GT350]

I think you should give it to the owner who has the car that it was born with, after all isn't that the "right" thing to do? Or are we just into these cars to make $$$ ?

I gave my wife a list of the "do not sell to" people, as they were in my pants at one point in my life. My rip off list just keeps on growing!

The beauty is we do not need the money, y'all might just see my cars in a drawing for a charity like animal shelters.

Fine print:
Cannot print fine print, so lets pretend...This is meant for spirited comments, remarks, complements, jabs, the internets, hurt feelings, unhurt ones, problem people, people that can take a joke and might not be able to. I just keeps them guessing what I really think...

[camp upshur]

hmm, that's a good point. perhaps -in the spirit of selfless re-unification- the owner of the chassis might donate it gratis to the owner of the engine.

[trotrof1]

I would probably let the car owner have it back for what I had in it. Possibly they could come up with a trade for parts or another hipo block.

[Jhockman]

At cost or maybe a little profit for your troubles but don't be greedy and make buyer feel like he got screwed just because you can

[6S896]

I traded a few years ago, this block was running, so I traded even for a new running block from his car.

[NC TRACKRAT]

IMHO, the owner of the car isn't thinking clearly.  He should purchase the block and everything else that came with it, get it re-built and either put it on an engine stand or swap it out with what's in the car now.

[J_Speegle]

Know a number of owners that have turned down original blocks/engines over the years. In my experience most are long term (over 30 year ownership) owners.   Everyone has their reasons for their choices - though we/many may have made different ones

[98SVT - was 06GT]

With the insane prices for "numbers matching" car the owner would be nuts not to get his hands on the original block. IF the seller is reasonable. It is ONLY worth more to the owner of the GT350. I'd be willing to plop down a few hundred extra but beyond that - we all know that there are many restored cars with restamped blocks.
If the seller wants too much for the block using the thinking that the car is worth XXXX more with the block so I want XX of that. Then the car owner will be reluctant to pay the premium. He will still have the expense of building the engine to reinstall in his car.
Trackrat is on the right track. Buy all of it you can get. Rebuild it and store it on a stand (do it now it will only get more expensive in the future) until you decide to sell the car then install the fresh original engine.

[5F09K]

I paid $2,500 for the original block of my kcode fastback . but it's completely bare—just a standard bore block. That said, I'm really excited to rebuild it using the high-performance parts I've been collecting over time

[pbf777]

    Not to be picking sides, but consider; for those who wish to tout that if one should find a numbered block, that they, along with being the one whom puts forth the effort to find it, and then locate the original vehicle and owner, then "should" sell that correctly matching block to that owner, reaping little or no benefit or god forbid any "profit", this in the name of being responsible in this society.  Well then, I would assume that those of such demeanor also believe that anyone in possession of these such vehicles, when choosing to move them on to a new owner, "should" solely tally up what their actual cost outlay might be, and not levy anything above this in their selling price (maybe less depending on condition but certainly not more!); and particularly not any enhanced value due to now having a "numbers matching" example.     
 
    B.T.W. How are we to handle the situation of where you might have negotiated a lower purchase on the vehicle price because it "was" non-matching, but being that it "is" numbers-matching, should this possible enhanced value be ignored as otherwise you're "sicking it to the man"?   
   
    Because if you're a good steward in this hobby, you certainly shouldn't want to make the next guy 'feel' like he had to pay, at least not "exorbitantly", to participate, this regardless of what the actual market value might imply, right?! 

    Scott. 

[TA Coupe]

Scott, I agree with you one thousand percent. It doesn't make any sense to me to sell a block that maybe you bought for maybe 500 hundred dollars and sell it for a couple hundred dollars more, to make it worth your trouble to get it to the original car, and then that car's value goes up by maybe ten thousand dollars because of that numbers matching block. Being a nice guy is one thing but handing over a block for little to no profit So that somebody else can make thousands of dollars in profit just doesn't make sense to me. I'm not saying the person should make the full profit of what the next person will get out of it though.

      Roy