Reply to "Interested in a new heavy duty Cleveland block in IRON?"

That's a wonderful offer John, thanks so much. The gentleman taking the lead in this effort is named Joe, he moderates the other bulletin board where I spend time, the 351 Cleveland Forum.

http://www.network54.com/Forum/119419/

I don't want to do a quarterback sneak around Joe, he should be the one to coordinate everybody's effort. You can contact him at his e-mail:

megcrrn@netzero.com

Or if you prefer, I'll contact him and inform him you've offered to help. Let me know what you prefer.

At this point Joe has found a pattern maker, National Patterns, that has agreed to reverse engineer the molds for a heavy duty Cleveland block in wood & plastic for a quater million dollars. Wood & plastic molds are only good for one small production run.

Joe wants a head count of interested parties, to determine how many blocks would be produced, before he asks Motor Castings for a price per block figure. I differ with Joe there, I don't think you need a head count at this point, I would think an investor would want to produce as many blocks as the molds would allow. But this is Joe's project.

Once the price per block is known, and Joe determines how many blocks he wants cast, he can add the price of the blocks to the $250,000 National Patterns wants, divide that sum by $2500 (the retail price of the blocks) to determine the number of committed buyers an investor need to break even. A lending company woud also want to know that info.

Frankly, if the right people are involved, there's money to be made. I wish I had the money to become a partner in the venture.

your friend on the DTBB