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03-04-2007, 09:54 AM
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V-12 in a 1977 Wagoneer! Out of the Bill Harrah Collection after he died.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object...OA8A91.DTL&o=2
"And the stamp comes in ways subtle -- and not so subtle. To me, the most obvious and whimsical example of Harrah, the legendary casino tycoon who died in 1978 at age 67, is the Jerrari -- a combination Ferrari and Jeep Wagoneer. It's on display in a corridor between some of the museum's galleries.
The story was that Harrah asked Ferrari to make him a four-wheel-drive vehicle because Harrah was having trouble getting over the hill to Lake Tahoe in style. (Harrah was not one for plebian transportation.) Ferrari said no. So Harrah had his mechanics stuff a V12 Ferrari engine into the engine bay of a 1977 Wagoneer and got himself a unique four-wheel-drive. Or almost unique. Although the museum's curator had no record of it, it appears Harrah had another Jerrari created from a 1969 Wagoneer. That one had the long sloping hood, the grille and the front fenders of a Ferrari 365 grafted onto the Wagoneer and, yes, it does look weird. The car cropped up recently on the Web site of Barrett-Jackson, the big Arizona auto auction firm."
I don't think it would be a good Rock Crawler or Trail Rig!
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03-04-2007, 09:59 AM
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I don't think it would be a good Rock Crawler or Trail Rig!
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Sure it would!  
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03-04-2007, 10:24 AM
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It just goes to prove with a big enough budget and pry bar you can shoe horn anything into an engine bay.
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03-04-2007, 10:25 AM
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:yawn:
impress me. I want to see a tank engine in a FSJ :P 
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03-04-2007, 11:18 AM
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impress me. I want to see a tank engine in a FSJ :P |
thinking it may be easier to just scab the body panels of the fsj around the tank!
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03-04-2007, 11:38 AM
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Good idea! I'm pulling the engine outta my Ferrari next weekend!
Seriously though, I wonder how the drivetrain held up...
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03-05-2007, 07:24 PM
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LOL!! Pretty decent mod.......
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03-05-2007, 07:26 PM
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My Bosch FI '85 V12 got ~15 mpg... in my XJS and I didn't have a light foot. You might be able to improve on your AMC mileage.
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03-06-2007, 10:54 AM
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They had it out on display when I went to the museum several years back.
William Harrah had it built so he could travel between his casinos at Lake Tahoe and Reno.
...and it had to be fast, and in any weather condition. Works for me.
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03-06-2007, 12:58 PM
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They had it out on display when I went to the museum several years back.
William Harrah had it built so he could travel between his casinos at Lake Tahoe and Reno.
...and it had to be fast, and in any weather condition. Works for me.
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03-06-2007, 01:05 PM
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I vaguely recall that being in a magazine eons ago, seems like they had to lengthen the snout 4-6-?? inches to get it to fit.
Deep memory still works, short term sucks
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03-07-2007, 05:14 AM
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some people are just operating on another level!
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