CL (Atlanta) 83 4spd tranny $400

[rlaggren]

http://atlanta.craigslist.org/pts/351748174.html

4 speed automatic transmission - $400
Reply to: sale-351748174@craigslist.org
Date: 2007-06-13, 11:18PM EDT

out of 83 datsun / nissan maxima (diesel) w/ torque converter, complete with all sensors & worked fine when pulled

* Location: Tucker, GA

[asavage]

Good find. Not so hot price.

Car-part.com has one listed in Longview, WA (150 miles from me) for $200. Another one in NY for $500, one in TX for $550, and one in GA with no price. I'd buy the one in Longview, except I already have one working one, one core, and one good gasser L4N71b already.

[rlaggren]

I've often wondered whether there was any workable way to more formally structure an oganization of enthusiasts so that irreplaceable hardware (and software - knowledge) could be gathered, preserved and passed on and around in the long term.

The internet really gives the "knowledge" part a big boost. I joined an "Old Woodworking Tools" forum a few years ago. Good people and real enthusiasts - a gold mine of knowledge and most of them have extensive _working_ tool collections. Some of the guys started kicking around the question of what the wife would do with their hoard when they kicked the bucket and the general consensus was that the lot would be on curb in front of the house w/in days. Now they were a little tonque-in-cheek, but there was definitely some worry and dilemma going around.

Stuff like old cars, planes, tools and the like depend on irreplaceable (more or less) hard techonology. At some point it all _will_ disappear but lots of stuff doesn't necessarily have to get "lost" as fast as it does. Small groups like this one and the tool guys keep the knowledge going and help each other w/parts but the set-up is pretty fragile and doesn't have the (financial/oganizational) means to seek out and preserve their raw material (hardware) over larger areas, costs and time.

Enough maundering. Too much technology stuff piling up everywhere anyway...

Another week looms.