The funny thing is that in '62 I bought one of these original 4 spd for about $150 and a complete number matching 57 chev 283 hp FI car for $300 that had been wrecked. We swapped parts with my good 57 car, did a 3 angle valve job and I spun the dist on my Sun machine and got it work to 6800 rpm, and we had a legal stock racer that was a killer in it's day.

I sold the FI for $150 and the 4 spd went with the car and a used 4 barrel carb 283 for $500. and that was it.

I don't know if just sticking that $150 in the bank and letting is set for all these years would bring equality or not. I really don't languish much about some of the rare stuff today that we used and just trashed back then.

You can't imagin how much 392 hemi stuff we and all the other local racers (Dave included) tossed back then. I suppose you could say we contributed to inflation. haha The lucky guys that find this stuff today should thank us and buy us a steak dinner. haha