$171.59 for all nine of them at a local diesel tech school. That's $19.07 each. 5 -- 8V-71 (for Mercedes V8 projects at work and home) 1 -- 6v-71 (Ebay) 1 -- 4-71 (for my '29 Ford 302 project) 1 -- 6V-92 (Ebay) 1 -- 8V-92 (Ebay) Plus a bucket of spare parts (gears, impellers, covers, etc.)
Really nice find. You may even discover that the parts have zero or just a few hours on them, and were donations to the school at some point.
It was an online auction, and I've been bidding for 3 weeks. 15 minutes to go and I was starting choir practice at my daughters' high school. I got outbid at the start of class and threw in a winning bid with 10 minutes to go. The whole class was in on what I was doing (though none of them knew what a blower was). WHILE I was directing the choir I was refreshing the auction page, and in the middle of the song I started jumping around the stage when I won the auction (and I finished conducting the song) -- I'm STILL pumped! My class got a big kick out of it!
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