eBay Gold: Someone Is Selling A 1970 Vintage 426 Hemi Short Block Still In The Original Crate!


eBay Gold: Someone Is Selling A 1970 Vintage 426 Hemi Short Block Still In The Original Crate!

When we talk about barn finds, it is always cars but these days we need to start considering parts and components as well because of stuff like this. You are looking at a 1970 vintage 426 Hemi short block that is still in its shipping crate, has never been fully unwrapped, and would be an amazing piece to have for anyone restoring a 1970 hemi powered Mopar and wanting to make it right.

Sweetening the pot for the potential restoration angle is the fact that because this was built as a factory replacement short block there is no VIN stamped into it. There is MASSIVE value in having a “numbers matching” car and the correct set of stamps in the right place would make this one just that for the buyer.

The engine is not as pristine as one would dream it to be but it can be taken apart, cleaned up, and made right for sure. The protective cosmoline coating as worn off of some exposed parts allowing for rust to happen but again, the rust can be fixed up, cleaned up, and this factory short block could be as right as rain again.

We wonder how many hemi short blocks were produced like this. Likely thousands. We’d never seen one still int he crate like this one, though! Thanks tot he gaggle of BangShift tipsters that sent links in for this one. They came from all over the place!

eBay: This 1970 Hemi short block is still in the factory shipping crate!


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6 thoughts on “eBay Gold: Someone Is Selling A 1970 Vintage 426 Hemi Short Block Still In The Original Crate!

  1. Joe Jolly

    37,000 starting bid. The idea of numbers matching everything is good, but it’s not truly numbers matching if the numbers are added 49 years later. Is it? I don’t understand the resto biz..

    1. bob

      likely wouldn\’t be disclosed that it wasn\’t the original block. It would be sold as a \”numbers matching\” hemi car, likely without any mention that the engine was replaced and stamped with the vin half a century after the car left the factory. That\’s sometimes how the high end resto business works.

  2. 69rrboy

    A nice find but beyond that, whatever. A good used block and heads will cost around 10-15 grand when you find one so that asking price is completely insane.

    Most blocks have a 1966 date on them until well into the 68 model year. I get the impression they were planning on selling WAY more Hemi cars than they did so they just kept using the inventory until production finally caught up and then made more.

    A replacement block has a code stamped right into the raised area at the front of the LH side of the intake where the other numbers are so anyone who knows that will also know there’s NO chance of it ever being made into a “numbers matching” piece.

    It’s cool that it will be a “time correct” block for someone but it’s slightly illegal to print your own numbers on things so i’d suggest whoever buys it didn’t try that unless they’d like the Feds to visit them.

  3. Pete231

    37 large for a rusted out short block AND you want me to pay shipping ? Pull my finger, puhlese……..

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