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Re: [AMC-list] grant rebel engine ?
- From: "Rocky Lear" <lear31@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 17:32:42 -0500
That's it. I was trying to find a way to buy it several years ago. I think 
that was around 2002. The guy who owned it then. in a burb of Chicago, had 
the engine and a lot of other parts that went with it which are not listed 
in the new offering. I know there was another set of heads like that and a 
few cranks and a bunch of other stuff that would have brough several 
thousand dollars own it's own.  Back them I think the deal was $6500 or 
$7000 for everything. Obviously the engine would be worth more with the car 
and vice versa. If I was the guy in Louisiana, I'd have bought it back then 
when it surfaced...at any cost. The owner told me that he recovered the 
engine from a scrap yard near him. Someone loaded it up and hauled it in for 
scrap and a few bucks.
R
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eddie Stakes" <eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <baadassGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 3:17 PM
Subject: [AMC-list] grant rebel engine ?
Neat to see stuff pop up like this....I told Brian, the seller that this 
could be the Grant Rebel engine, or one of them Hayden Proffitt used to 
campaign....one of the engines from the Grant Rebels was a bored out 343 
to 443cid and with supercharger, was 1200 horsepower at 9000rpm according 
to one of the little press thingies I have here.
Someone emailed me asking about the 68 Grant Rebel...it is in Louisiana, 
guy bought it off National Dragster in I believe 1993 for $800, no 
drivetrain, sort of body, chassis only, and he literally built a barn 
around the car, so it is immovable.
I tried to get him to bring it to the nationals we did here in 2001 in 
Houston, but that would have meant taking down a wall to bring car out! 
Didn't happen, nice guy, hope he sees that old engine on ebay, which may 
or may not belong in the Rebel...could be one of the Topel Rambler 
(Kenosha) 343s AMC was testing all their happy Group 19 items on up there 
in 66-68!
I don't know what ever happened to the 67 Crane Industries Grant Rebel 
car, hopefully still out there in someone's collection perhaps.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/AMC-Grant-Rebel-Funny-Car-Blown-Injected-Nitro-motor-/170587860221?pt=Race_Car_Parts&hash=item27b7d42cfd
Eddie Stakes
713.464.8825
eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.planethoustonamx.com
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