>>>*This is a good one and I know exactly what you mean. I was up at our engine shop last week and ran some inventories of leftover items.

There are things like gasket sets for Dodges, old Fords, import engines like twin cam Fiats, those sets were opened to get the oil seals or some gasket, job had to go the same day so the crew grabs one off the shelf. Those go into the "someday" stack along with opened ring sets, piston sets, camshafts, bearings, piles and piles and piles of it.

I came up with a figure of around $80,000.....!!!!

Really!! A collection from over 45 years, and this was before I got into the head, cam and crankshaft cores since we have somewhere around 30-40 TONS of those. There is even a pair of new ProTopline heads back there for a 350, and half a dozen new Toyota heads in various stages of not yet done.

Anyone want a 352 Ford empty block? How about a 351W unassembled short block, everything new? Volvo parts? There is a couple of things back there that even I don't know what they are or where they came from.

The jobs get started on, the phone rings, they get set aside. Some folks drop stuff off and we never see them again.....I did load up about 20 sets of 1955-58 Chevy V-8 heads for scrap to clear some space a couple of years ago, but the space got filled right back up!

It seems that every time we do throw something away the phone rings and someone wants it.

I suggested to my son that he post a few of the items on ebay since he does have an account.

His answer? He groaned and mentioned he is working evenings and weekends already.....*LOL**....*EB