The Ricardo's can be had for $6500 rebuilt, there's a guy in Rugby UK, selling them and has one listed on the US Ebay site right now.
If I was going for anything other than a std ZF I'd get one of the GT Transmissions/Quaife ZFQ's and with recent exchange rates they were under $10K (GBP6500).
Julian
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