Mystery solved. Shelby Trust to sell Real Cobras

[Bernica]

Originally Posted by RodKnock

I know there are parts hoarders out there and it wouldn't surprise me that some have stacks upon stacks of OEM parts hiding all over the place. There's a person on the Porsche forum with a warehouse full of parts for the 1990's 964's and 993's. He's posted pics of the warehouse, but he's definitely not a "I could tell ya, but I'd have to kill ya" kind person.

Heck I wouldn't mind having a nice OEM Cammer just because and I know there are some fellas with several of them. And I don't think any of these parts hoarders have fancy inventory control systems.

When I was a kid in the early '70s I worked for a guy that was a Ford fanatic. When Ford decided to pull their Muscle Parts program he went friggin' crazy and dragged me to dealerships with a big truck, sometimes late at night.

It was like a frenzy of guys cutting deals with dealerships and cleaning out the stock as fast as they could. I personally helped him load up two Boss 429's and two Cammers, all still on the factory pallets. I remember stacking cams still in the cardboard tubes like firewood. Tunnel Port heads, manifolds 427 S/O blocks, you name it. We Built racks at his shop and stacked everything up. It looked like a parts store when we were done.

I remember him telling me "Bernica, this sh*t is going to be worth a fortune some day".

That was in the Pacific Northwest, outside of Seattle.