Rebuilding engines is hot business nowadays as it costs far less to rebuild ‘em than buy new. There are three companies right here in Riverside area that are going night and day rebuilding engines. I have several friends also rebuilding engines as a “hobby”.
Cars as a rule of thumb are lasting longer yes. I have two 13 year old cars, and an eleven year old car. None have been rebuilt at this point, and won’t be at our expense as SAAB cars aren’t being built anymore, and parts are already becoming scarce. We’ll be going to FORD when we need to replace these.
I bought an old big block IH 345 for a stock footage prop so I can tear down and and add on good enough to fool a cmaera for a small sum.
They don’t seem to bring anything in running condition from what I can see and worth more apparently for scrap broken down.
I haven’t fooled with it much due to the heat. It is in an old metal building with no power but here is the first clip of many.