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| RE: The good days are over for restoration buyers. |
| By Gerry Proctor - 10/21/2004 8:50:00 AM; IP 207.133.188.254 |
Your estimations are in line with the market I've observed.
The only real area of market influence has been in the non-restoration market.
We folks who were looking for a better head than the garden variety FE heads had no real options other than the factory CJ or 427 heads. That forced us to compete with the restoration market for these heads.
With the aftermarket alternatives now available, the prices for CJ heads in good shape has fallen by nearly half. C8OE-N heads were selling between $900 and $1,000 about five years ago. Now that they're real value is as a restoration item we who are not doing restorations are interested in them only if we can get them cheap.
CJ exhaust manifolds are probably going to be expensive for a long time, though I have no idea what makes resto manifold worth $500. There are still deals to be found but those days are getting fewer. |
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