EBay Finds

[fried onions]

I don't think the engines are worth that much. They only had a few applications and varied in detail between vehicles. The thousands of pounds rebuild figure will be to have a 'specialist firm' do it and there is no shortage of rich people with these cars who shell out such figures. We all know that you can rebuild one yourself for a few hundred, maybe a thousand, depending on what wants doing. It's a 1950's Austin copy of a Chevrolet engine FFS.

[panhard65]

Thats the thing though anyone who knows how easy they are to rebuild would never pay that money but the rich money is no object types get told it has to be done by so and so and will cost x drives the price up. Finding a decent engine shop is getting harder now as half of them go for the "we are classic experts" and do an ok job for an inflated price. Then there are the proper old boys who don't make a big fuss but are bloody good at the engineering rather than selling themselves. The guy who did my Thunderbird was like that and it cost me around a grand to totally rebuild the V8 including the parts.

[fried onions]

Agreed, finding someone who knows what they're doing and you can trust is getting harder. I'm on the lookout for another engine shop myself.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

I am not sure if it is the same but is that not the same lump as the healey 3000 ? If so the engine may well be worth that much to someone restoring one. When you read these restoration guides and they say an engine rebuild will cost 5k or whatever you may soon find a buyer if it's a decent lump. The rest of the car is shit so he may as well break it and make his money that way like I did with the RO80 I had. You have to be brutal but a lot of old cars are worth good money in parts especially when they are borderline worth the cost of restoration and why should he give it away if he can sell the lump for 5k.

No, detuned MGC 7 bearing unit.

[panhard65]

The one I used in Exeter will hopefully be in good hands as the old boy has his daughter working with him. She seems to know her stuff and being a girl in that sort of business is still hard work so she must be pretty committed to the job.

[Hooli]

The place I got Stroppy's bits done do cars & other things too. They are expanding so should be about for a while. It's Seagar Engineering in Ipswich.

[treehugger]

So how much does he want for it? 1
£100,000?
Tried clicking for further info but just ended up on the market place thing looking at chairs.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I've seen that bloody heap reposted several times on each of several different forums.

The first time I saw it on The Beige , Ebay Tat thread , was about 5 years ago and it had only just been finished. There were lots of pictures of the build, it’s all metal from memory. It had a Wolseley Hornet bonnet under the back end as a type of diffuser! I love 3 Litres and even I think racing it is the best option, The only way it could be even vaguely acceptable would be if it had at least300 bhp, preferably from a Turbo R lump or Jag V12.

Edited to add: it was 8 years ago and might even have been on PH not AS or both !

[mercrocker]

I wish I had taken pictures of my Dad's workmate's 3 litre.....He'd panelled the front end and hand-built a Rolls-Royce grille into a cut-down Silver Cloud surround which had lost all its shutters. It was like a Costco Bentley Java. He'd gone to the trouble of spraying it Seychelles Blue over silver and it had odd touches like a P5 rear number plate mount and Super 8s under the front bumper.

That went round the oval eventually, too.....

[DodgeRover]

If it's not hideously rotten this doesn't seem bad