59* R3 Help

autoxcuda said

Also got to wonder why it is still NOS.

This race stuff gets sorted out and picked over at factory and at dealers.

Some MP dealers measured and inspected blocks and heads pre-purchase for good racers customers. And even returned some orders to factory.

I've also heard some MP dealers would get parts that they could tell had been already sorted and checked out prior to shipment.

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They guy who I bought mine from bought the thing new in the box in 1980. He was going to start a build at the end of the 1980 season.

Then the wife got pregnant. With TRIPLETS!!! He showed me the pictures. Three really cute kids. But they weren’t expecting that so the car sat for the next ten years.

He then decided to rebuild the 340 that was in the car and when he went to the track he just wasn’t into it as much as he was.

So he parked the car. Years later he sold the car and offered the block to the idiot who bought it and he passed on it. So it sat in the box until I bought it in 2013.

I paid 800 bucks cash money and didn’t try and beat him down one red cent.

I did promise him I would use it and not flip it for a profit so he got pictures of the full build.

One of the few times I got a smoking deal like that one in my whole life.