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The Lounge / Re: Thanks Ron
« on: March 06, 2024, 09:49:12 PM »
I am obviously missing something here? A fence?
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Shelby Parts and Restoration used to sell stainless steel ten spoke /69 Shelby lugnuts . It was found out that you had to continuously re torque them as they frequently worked loose. Not the case with the chromed steel lugnuts.
Hey, what happened to my post count?Your'e a Victim Of Circumstance
All I can do is speak of my experience.
As I said, I may be wrong. You can verify that with my wife. She will tell you that I am always wrong.
My experience is that those readings are too high. Proceed as you will.
...oh...it isn't the static compression ratio, it is the cam timing. You blow the useless compression out through the cam timing.
I think you are clueless. FE cold cranking numbers I am familiar with - they vary greatly depending on camshaft and engine condition - but those numbers are typical. If you are saying otherwise you simply have no experience.
Only time I would expect to sell something at a discount to a dealer would be when I contacted the dealer directly to inquire if they're interested in purchasing. Totally get that they have to make a profit. This is only necessary when fire-selling or need to unload quickly... or have a lot of items to unload at once.
Some of the prices I've been seeing on parts over the past few years will take your breath away. I'm not sure if I'm out of line on the bezel, it seems like a lot, but I haven't seen one of these offered this nice in a long time. Seems most of the available NOS stock these days are the 2nds/3rds/4ths...
I have always found it humorous since the advent of social media that there are those who think you should sell at a discount because they are dealers. Now at a Frank "bundling" I'd like to get a discount but that would be for a lot of parts as in a whole "lot" of parts so then a seller could decide is it worth offering a discount so these are all gone at once(time is money) or not? Yeah, a project these days scare me more so than 15 years ago but when you find a 1 owner 30K mile car sitting since the early 70s in a great color and manual well... I won't restore my 428 SCJ 4 speed candy apple Mach1 because the price of original parts missing and my labor and the price of a paint job does not justify me doing that to my car. a #3 car that shows great from 10 feet away but has it's warts because it was restored around 1990(is that correct Dan?) and abused at SAAC events on the east coast mostly. i'll just continue enjoying it for now as is.I wish you guys would hold off on selling your NOS 68 stuff. I'm trying to buy a 68 but have to wait until spring to see if I get it. By then all the NOS stuff will be gone. Maybe I need to tell Seraphim he needs doubles(well it would be triples on some parts).
Well I think that you are very courageous to consider a new project? Speaking for myself only, frankly, I'm priced out now and it is getting worse.
To add insult to injury, potential buyers of my parts tell me that I'm out of line with my asking prices and suggest that the market values are more like 25 cents on a dollar to what I want for them?
IN FACT I had one "dealer" tell me WTF do I think I am? I need to sell my parts to him at a "wholesale price", whatever that is, so he could turn around and sell it for "retail" and that he was justified in the price because he was a dealer?
So apparently as a seller now, it depends on who you are and if you are nobody like me, your parts are just worth junk prices?
I think that is worth thinking about for anyone looking to get into a new project if you have any hopes of finishing it accurately without having to use "jabonga" aftermarket stuff to get it finished?