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Eagle with a Diesel Motor |
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81eagle88
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Posted: Sep/30/2018 at 8:20pm |
Diesel Brothers, Velosity Channel bought a AMC Eagle for $1000.00 w/ title and plan to remove 258 and replace with a at this point a unknown Diesel engine. Date is 9/29/18 at 9PM Don't know when it will be Continued after repowering a old Willys p/u
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pacerman
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I think there were just a couple of Eagles completed by AMC with a Renault diesel. There is one at the Rambler Ranch in Colorado I think. I am confident someone will provide more details. Joe
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FSJunkie
AMC Addicted Joined: Jan/09/2011 Location: Flagstaff, AZ Status: Offline Points: 4741 |
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Turbo Diesel Eagle information: http://www.amceaglesden.com/images/Eaglebook/17bookvariants.pdf They built five to eight turbo Diesel Eagles. They are ungodly rare and were ungodly expensive when they were new. I have personally seen and touched one. It is at the Rambler Ranch Museum in Colorado, where it has been sitting outside under a tree for at least five years awaiting a new turbo and restoration. It's hiding out in the roughly 20 acre forest boneyard with about 500 other cars, mostly AMC, and mostly Eagles, so most people don't even know it's there or notice it. I didn't even know it was there until I heard Terry talk about it. I watched it get nailed by apricot-sized hail two years ago. I was living and working on the property when it happened. It fared better than most of the other 500 cars, including my own. The tree helped save it, by God's good grace. I'm in love with her. She is one of the "AMC Royalty", as I refer to them, at the Rambler Ranch. There are other cars there that are even more special....like the only one built or less than 102 original miles special. Being able to touch and sometimes drive them was one of the truest gifts I've experienced thus far. Some of them recently made articles in Hemmings publications. I was there for the photoshoots. Who do you think was detailing and driving the cars out of the buildings for their moment of fame? Proof that it exists. Snapped these photos myself. Last registration tag on the license plate is 2011. That is likely when it was parked under this tree and it hasn't moved since. Edited by FSJunkie - Oct/01/2018 at 3:09am |
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1955 Packard
1966 Marlin 1972 Wagoneer 1973 Ambassador 1977 Hornet 1982 Concord D/L 1984 Eagle Limited |
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jpnjim
AMC Addicted Joined: Nov/25/2007 Location: New England Status: Offline Points: 2752 |
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Makes sense that there'd be a "missing link" Diesel Eagle,
since the Diesel Cherokees and Comanches were available within a year of the lines being introduced (1985 I believe). Pretty cool! I had never heard of a Diesel Eagle until now. |
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71 P-code 4spd Javelin/AMX
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amxdreamer
AMC Addicted Joined: Jul/30/2008 Location: Vancouver, BC Status: Offline Points: 8494 |
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I'm pretty sure they will be building a much bigger diesel....these guys go big. lol
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Tony
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AMXRWB
AMC Addicted Joined: Apr/25/2013 Location: Midwest Status: Offline Points: 1136 |
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Wish you had an engine photo
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FSJunkie
AMC Addicted Joined: Jan/09/2011 Location: Flagstaff, AZ Status: Offline Points: 4741 |
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I was under specific instruction to not raise hoods without permission, but yes, I should have.
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1955 Packard
1966 Marlin 1972 Wagoneer 1973 Ambassador 1977 Hornet 1982 Concord D/L 1984 Eagle Limited |
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81eagle88
AMC Apprentice Joined: Apr/22/2016 Location: Hadley, NY Status: Offline Points: 136 |
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I cannot confirm that AMC did/didn't put a Reneau sp? Diesel into the Eagle.....then the program shows the Bro's
Traveling cross country in the Eagle with the usual headliner falling down only to find the car sitting on the back Of a flatbed truck! How will the Bro's attach the Diesel oil pan with the front drive? |
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knobbler
AMC Apprentice Joined: Sep/13/2015 Location: Seattle Status: Offline Points: 171 |
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Here's a promo sheet they had about them that I saw posted somewhere not too long ago. Note the big gulp fuel tank option!
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83GT
AMC Addicted Joined: Aug/03/2014 Location: Galveston TX Status: Offline Points: 507 |
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Geez! 1500 miles!! 50-60 gallons ?
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