What the heck is up with 8-3/4" rearends?

... I hid it in a Ford van until 1/2 price day came around the following weekend because I knew no one would be looking in there :-) ...
Might have been you who hid a nice Holley 1920 in a trunk at the Ecology yard in S.F.S., CA. Guess they figured no M-B diesel owner would also have an old slant. Wrong (me). I sold it to a local guy cheap to try to get his slant purring.