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I really need some help pricing the swap meet stuff for the show. PLEASE!
Essentially ALL of the stuff MUST sell as I do not want to bring it home. The exceptions are the 460 and T-19 I took out of Big Blue. The youth group from church is doing the selling, with me as backup, so I need to give them easy-to-follow guidelines. And, by the way, save for my two things the youth group also gets the money. There are probably ~250 books, some of which are Ford pubs and some are generic, like Motors or Clymers. The Ford books, like factory shop manuals or master parts catalogs, will be $5/ea. And the generic ones will be $1/ea. Until 2:00 PM, at which point we'll mark things down so much that they'll sell, or maybe even give them away. But on other things I need some help: Engines: For the 351M/400 and the 360/390 I think I'll put $100 on each, and that includes the attached C6 on the M-Block. But on the 460 I pulled from Big Blue I'm asking $500 since I know it runs and it has an Edelbrock intake and water pump on it. Is that reasonable?Fender: I have a nice Bumpside RF fender and I have no clue what it is worth. I think I'll ask the FORDification guys, but do any of you have an idea?Carbs: As you'll see below, there are 5 Holley's and a bunch of parts. What price should I put on them to sell? And what price on the bucket and box of parts?Fans: There are several fans. How should I price them?Key Fobs: And there are several security key fobs. I have no idea if they work. Price for one?
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Oh wow. That's quite the selection and I look forward to see what all is there. Sadly I will be no help on prices. I will take that bathroom towel holder
 off your hands if still there when I arrive.
The prices you have listed are more than reasonable (steals I would say for someone even mildly looking) so continuing in that theme, if mine, and not wanting to haul any of it back home, I'd make a tote for $20, $10, $5, and $1. Then aside from the fender and maybe a few other standout items, chuck items in whatever box looks good. It's when buyers ask for package deals that it will get complicated for your sellers so maybe give them some hard and fast rule like $20+ of multiple items can get 25% off, if asked for? Just spitballing.
Scott
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Ok guys, thanks! I appreciate the input.
Scott - I'll pull the "bathroom towel holder" out for you. (I took the pic in a way that it would be visible. )
Shaun - The 460 runs, but it is worn out. I saw 50% leakage on more than one cylinder when I did the leak-down test. The "460" written on the valve covers with a paint pen suggests that it came directly from the salvage. On the key fobs, I'll pull them out and check, but I don't know anything about them at this point.
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I don't know anything about the background of the 460. It is out of Big Blue and not Dad's truck.
But I'd bet that the engine hasn't been bored as the valve covers have "460" written on them just like a salvage would do. So my expectation is that that Vernon, the PO, paid  a hefty sum and years, literally, later when he started pushing to have his engine back the guy bought one from a salvage and slapped it in, installing only the visual things that Vernon paid for - the intake and the water pump. If that's true then it probably hasn't been bored.
However, I have no proof for that theory other than anecdotal evidence of the writing on the valve covers. 
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Shipping would be pretty expensive.
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They're common fobs for late 90's to late 2000's Ford vehicles, like both of my Rangers. The ones with the trunk buttons are the same vintage, but obviously for a car. The one with the Ford oval is a little older, early to mid 90s. There's a picture of it in the 1995 and 1996 F-Series brochures here on the site. |
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Yeah, the older ones are getting somewhat hard to find, but (finally) somebody in China finally started making aftermarket cases for them (the key loops break often, like is the case here). My 1995 ranger uses them... and I lost one in a Walmart parking lot in Owasso over last year's show
)... Wait a sec... you didn't find that one in the church lot last year???  May I call dibs on that FOB (for a reasonable price... but it's a good cause so I kind don't care)? FWIW I've since replaced the missing one... they're number-specific (Transmitter 1-4 on the orignal cases) and I've never come across a 3 or a 4. The one I lost was a "1".
1984 F150: 300 L6, AOD, RWD. EEC IV / TFI, Feedback Carter YFA Carb. Stock everything but radio (for now).
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Thanks, but you apparently think I recognize each of those carb. But I can figure out which one is the spreadbore as it'll have the GM spreadbore spacing like a QJet. And I already have a 4180C on the shelf so should be able to spot that one. Last, the 4300 should look like a 2150 on the front with annular boosters, so I should be able to figure that out as well. Right?
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Actually, I don't think it'll work for me after all... Research time:
Per a review of the manual online, it's a discontinued Harbor Freight 1/2 Ton (880LB) adapter for a specific floor jack (the also discontinued Central Hydraulics 50183 2 1/4 ton Jack). central-hydraulics-39152-user-manual.pdf 22173393.pdf I have a later model Harbor Freight Pittsburg jack whose saddle is bolt on, not slip-in with a stud like the jack above:   Looking through the manual, I think that saddle has to be in the middle of the frame... there's a U shaped bracket that goes underneath the main frame of the adapter, and it looks like it goes under the saddle and around the stud. I guess the bigger challenge is who still has and uses one of these old orange and white Harbor Freight jacks?
1984 F150: 300 L6, AOD, RWD. EEC IV / TFI, Feedback Carter YFA Carb. Stock everything but radio (for now).
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OMG!
That's the Gari Baba's cave treasure sale! 
Jeff / 1984 F350 Crew Cab 4x4/5.8L w351 4V/ T18/ D50 4.10 front/ 8' bed.
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Jeff - I like that! Gari Baba's cave treasure sale!
 Larry - I've not done the research to see what it'll fit. I don't have the time to research any, much less all, of the thousands of things in the cave. So I'll take your word that it won't fit yours, and let the buyer figure out how to make it fit his. But what price should I put on it?
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I've seen them on Google Shopping as low as $40 and as high as $140...
 I'd maybe start at $60? But take down to $40?
(I'm a buyer not a seller as you can tell).
1984 F150: 300 L6, AOD, RWD. EEC IV / TFI, Feedback Carter YFA Carb. Stock everything but radio (for now).
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4300 is the strange 4 barrel with the tiny extra choke blade between the "wings" of the air valve. The Spread bore has a Q-jet mount and is the one with two accelerator pumps.
I have to leave for a while, Drs. appointment in Salisbury, be back in roughly 3 1/2 hours.
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