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FWIW, you can buy 401V8s here at pick a part for $109.00. www.houstonpickapart.com Well, you
have to pull them but big deal. Running 401s, my suggestion has been the same
since the 70s. Simply pick up your Yellow Pages, and contact some of the nearest
largest junkyards in your area. Ask them if they have a "hotline service"
if they don't have what you need. If they have a hotline, which is a setup that
connects dozens of salvage operations in that area, sometimes in the state too,
ask them to 'put the call out' for a '1970-1980 AMC/Jeep/International Harvester
360/401 V8'
If the call comes back someone has one, running, they will pull it for you,
and usually in the $300-$800 range. Just last year a fellow called me with
a straight, clean, rustfree 75 Gremlin, newly built 401V8, 904AT. The trans went
out right after he built it. I could have drove it home for $1000. I lost his
number but a sharp eyed fellow at a salvage yard on the north side remembered I
fool with AMC junk. He called me up as they gave him $500 for the whole car I
would find out later. No interest locally. So I went out and bought the
401/904 out of it for $500, they crushed the rest of the car sadly.
John, with all due respect, while that is/was(?) a nice Concord wagon, you
take the engine and trans out of it and it would be even harder to give away.
Granted one could not build one for the $1500 figure you mention. However,
a no engine/trans Concord wagon is not going to be high on anyones buy list as
much as we all here like the cars, regardless of what model. The SUAD lists on
my website the past 7 years are littered with no sales. Now, so is the new
message boards on my site.
Speaking of prices, how many of you remember this rock solid Texas rustfree
74 Gremlin J7/1975 factory color, built 304V8, AT I had for sale for about a
year for $2000? Finally took $1500 for it, it never hit reserve on
ebay.....twice.......at $1750.
My one of a kind 69 SC/Rambler wagon, which will probably be relisted one
more time, never hit reserve of $3500 either although got mighty close!!!
And so it goes.......
Eddie Stakes'
Planet Houston AMX 713.464.8825 eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx www.planethoustonamx.com volume of email is currently moderate 5-12 day replies, call if important
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