Anyone have an R3 crate engine for sale?
R3 Crate Engine Wanted
Aug 28, 2006
16 Replies
I think the last one just sold.....
Michael - Roseland FL wrote:
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Nemish can probably build you one and put it in a crate.
I am looking for a real one Jerry.
Jerry Forrester (no spam) wrote:
Only sale I could find for an R3 was here:
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Aug 2 2003 at Meadow Brook Hall auction (wherever that is). It was in a
64 Avanti and went for $48,400
I'd be tempted.
Michael - Roseland FL wrote:
"Only sale I could find for an R3 was Aug 2 2003 at Meadow Brook Hall auction (wherever that is)."
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concours in the country, at the Dodge mansion.Art show, high tea, string quartet, and where I met Gordon Buehrig. Guess they missed out on the Red Bull concession.
I am sure someone has an R3 sitting in the garage. I am not looking for a brand new engine, just what is designated as a crate engine. Used is fine.
snipped-for-privacy@bex.net wrote:
It'd be cheaper to buy a crate engine Hemi.
Lee
Jon Myer has several used ones. Whether or not he would sell one is another matter. Paul Johnson
Michael,
As far as I know, the term "crate engine" means a new or fully rebuilt engine, ready to install.
Gord Richmond
New.
I understand a crate engine should be new but in the R series world it describes the way it came (meaning it was not installed at the factory), not the way it exists presently.
randee wrote:
engine, ready to
engine, ready to
I don't think that you will find a NOS "crate engine". Get a block, surface off the serial # pad, spend $400 to $800 for correct character restamping dies and make your own R3
I agree with randee, New. jf
Yep. New it is. That was my understanding, but I put totally rebuilt in there, thinking perhaps a "factory rebuild", complete from oil pan to air cleaner might qualify.
Some engines are obviously not available new in any way, shape, or form. But you can buy rebuilds in a crate.
I'd say, that, lacking any other descriptor, a "crate" engine should be considered to be new production.
Gord Richmond
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