There’s nothing better when restoring a car than a one-stop-shop where you can find everything from a missing taillight to that gasket that hasn’t been produced for more than 40 years. eBay Motors is filled with parts and accessories from trusted shops with huge inventories—businesses that started by gearheads who bought one part after the next based on the idea that a certain part would become hard to find again.
A perfect example is this lot of 300 big block Chevy engines for sale by Michigan-based Track Performance Corvette Parts. The engines, which range from the mid-1960s through the 1990s, have been stripped down to their bare blocks and then carefully shelved for easy reference.
The seller claims this represents the largest collection of “big-block Chevy bare blocks” in the world—a fact few would dispute. It was assembled over four decades. In addition to usual suspects like the 454 and 427, the seller is offering hard-to-find long stroke versions of the same from heavy-duty trucks, with even a few 502 cubic-inch monsters for sale.
Here’s the rub: you have to buy everything all at once. The entire collection is being sold en masse with no split lots.
A half-million-dollar payout allows you to assume your position in automotive history as the King of the Big Blocks. The seller estimates that it will take a pair of 45-foot enclosed trailers to haul away the 35 tons of metal sitting in their warehouse. But if you bring the trucks, they’ll help you pull down the pallet racks and load it up using their 10-ton walking power crane system and fork lifts.
Are big blocks not really your thing? Not to worry. Track Performance also has thousands of small-block Chevy engines for sale, and you can buy them one at a time. The company also offers a host of specialty engines, rare motors, and of course all of the parts that got pulled off those blocks to make them bare in the first place.
The next time someone questions your quickly expanding collection of rare parts in the garage, simply send them the link to this auction—and explain that you’re just getting started.