I am in the unfortunate position of filing a large homeowners property damage claim.
For each item to be compensated, I need documentation of value based upon sales of like articles.
One of these is an aluminum slant six block.

Does anyone have knowledge of, or documentation of any recent sales of an aluminum block?

Thank you,
Robert

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Robert Troy
69 slant 6 OD4 Barracuda conv
68 383-S 4 speed convertible

What happened to damage your block?
I'd say value is gonna be right time/right place sort of thing, I'm sure the range in prices paid is gonna be wide, on something like that
currently I'd place the value at "unobtanium"

Price depends on "level of completion" and condition.
Did you loose a recently rebuilt, running engine or a used bare engine block... or something in-between?
DD

This is a bare block.
Clearly, value will depend on condition. But it's for an insurance claim, and the only thing that matters to them is documentation of a sale.
Once they have that in hand, we might negotiate over differences of the value based on differences in condition of sold blocks compared to what I have.

Robert

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Robert Troy
69 slant 6 OD4 Barracuda conv
68 383-S 4 speed convertible

Now, this is interesting. How are you going to document a private party sale? Most, if not all, of these "events" aren't public knowledge, and if the insurance company tries to follow up on your claim, how are they going to confirm it? Seems to me they are trying to get out of covering your claim by asking for "documentation" that is awfully hard to come by.

Roger

Just google ‘aluminum slant six block for sale’.
You will get links to several FABO ads and a few from .org
Prices vary, as mentioned a lot depends upon condition and how complete the block is.
But no doubt the aluminum slant block has a much higher value than an iron slant block.

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Doo Ron Ron and the Duke of Earl are friends of mine.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX8Nj8ABEI8

I recently gave $800 for a complete, but disassembled standard-bore aluminum engine. The cylinder head is not the original, however. I once inquired about a bare block, but it had no main caps and was functionally worthless. Your value will fall between these extremes.

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Joshua

Boy that reply is not going to make any new friends.

Can't help the facts. I did have to pick up the aluminum engine in Colorado so my total investment is a bit more than $800. I also recently paid $100 for a filthy 1978 block and crank and $20 for a bare hot tanked BH block just so it wouldn't go to scrap. What I can't find is a set of 198 rods that are any good.

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Joshua

No new friends? I don't get what you mean. He said he gave $800 for a functional one /and that he inquired about an incomplete bare block but didn't specify an asking price on the "worthless" bare block. Nor that he bought the bare block.
I don't see any harm done there.
Being someone who is clearly not familiar with anything to do with any alum slant block, other than pix of them that I've seen online, $800 would sound fair to me, to put on one for a value. Gotta start somewhere. You'd just need to somehow get it on paper (got any blank reciepts books?) and turn that in. Though the last 2 conventional iron slant 6 engines I've seen on eBay have been listed by dreamers, $600 and $850 for used engines of unknown condition/, considering those are pretty available yet this many years after they went out of production, I would guess that you could somehow use those values as a start, and explain how much longer the aluminum ones have been out of production, and how many less were made to begin with, to put your own (even higher) value on your damaged one.

Another idea/ I've run across the HOT ROD magazine article a few times now, the 3 parter where they built and dyno'd an alum /6, I wonder if they could help you with assigning a value, based off of what they had to pay for theirs?
Gotta ask again what happened to yours that it's damaged where you gotta file an insurance claim on it t to begin with?
Could Doc here be of help? I thought I had heard he lost a couple of alum blocks in that wildfire he experienced last year, maybe he has experience filing such a claim? It would definitely be more recent, so it could be relevant in that sense.
Definitely at the risk of inflicting more pain and anguish on the Doc than he already has seen, having been thru something so bad.

Hey, I'm not disputing the facts, but I suspect another one is, someone is sitting on an Alum slant block, and planning to retire upon selling it, until they read your reply.

I agree, that's life.

I just sold two aluminum engines last year for $450 each. The ad was on this forum, should be able to find it. They were buildable engines, not runners.