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He may even have plans to preserve the original parts and return the car to original if/when he decides to sell it.
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Selling the original engine , doesn't sound like a preserving measure at all.
And I'm not throwing Pont3 into the grease about this,
just bringing the light into the overall picture.
67 RamAir cars are a highly desired commodity to upper echelon collectors.
They sold 596 RamAir 4 Speeds, and 156 Automatics (751 Total)
Tom Stutzman sold a frame-off restored 4 Speed Hardtop for
$160,000 in 2016
Exact same car with an LS swap would be worth ... idunno, maybe 50-60k ?
I'm not into these cars for the money, but economics become a fundamental factor if you're dealing with a 6 figure car.
You
might see 2 or 3 of these sell publicly every 10 Years, or so.
Very low survival / identified ratio
Hard to gauge their market value, and very hard to find at all.
If the XS engine in question is the original engine to the 67 GTO in question,
then i agree the owner is an idiot and a fool.
By 2020, i have to think he would be aware of that.
The engine probably isn't original to the car
And the car probably isn't an original RamAir car.
That's the only way it makes any kind of sense at all.
This would be akin to removing the original engine from a 73 SuperDuty Trans Am and selling the engine, to install an LS
A guy can do it, for sure
It's his car
but .... 99.99% would consider him a TOTAL Idiot
Selling a RamAir Engine that was upfitted after the fact into a garden variety GTO,
i doubt anyone would care at all. Or care about the LS conversion.
Other than knowing a PY member got the XS engine, which is Cool