Petes Patriot `69 AMX

[sok5]

Mike Pearce recently brought back the Petes Patriot to Cruise Weekend in Kearney Raceway Park this past weekend. He was on his way from Maryland to L.A to attend the Southern California AMC club on July 28th and 29th. Following the trip to L.A. he will be bringing it back to Kearney, NE to put it into the new museum at Cabela`s, they now have a Classic Car Collection. It will be on display for one year there.

Along with the Petes Patriot will be the "Steak Maker" which Steve Mercer owns. If my notes are correct it was the original `68 Petes Patriot.

Below is a page put together from the original pictures I took when Mike first brought it to Kearney in 2002, which he had just finished restoring. On that day the original club members were on hand, including Gene Peterson, and Lou Downing, father of Rob Downing the Co-Crew Chief for Greg Anderson.

http://www.krpi.com/Results/mikepearce/petespatriot.htm

I also have a video shot that weekend of it going down the track.

[Jeff Lee]

GULP! That famous car now has an automatic trans in it! Blasphemy!

[Pvt Parts]

Originally Posted by jeff lee

gulp! That famous car now has an automatic trans in it! Blasphemy!

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[Tom keedle]

Originally Posted by Pvt Parts

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they COULD have hollerd if they needed somebody to drive a stick...

i GUESS i could have been persuaded to go back to nebraska for that...

[mike withers]

when I bought my SS car in mid 70's the owners of that car had replaced the AMC drive train with a 440 and a 727. I bought some of their AMC parts including some heads and a SS hood scoop. That scoop is now on Barry Allens' SS/B car.

Does that car now have an AMC engine?

[Jeff Lee]

It does have an AMC engine. Hopefully it's a proper 390. That car is an icon in Super Stock drag racing; not just amoungst the AMC crowd. I can't count how many times I've had my AMX at an NHRA race and had somebody telling me all about witnessing the Pete's Patriot AMX in action. That AMX won a lot of races. I'm not positive but I believe it was the D5 champion one year.

[joe cool]

This is one of the two Cras that warped me forever and made me throw every cent and minute i had a race cars,( the other one was the Tension 57 Chevy out of Omaha). I'm curious ,on the original car does anyone know what the factory color was, I mean was it white and they added the red and blue or was it all repainted.?

[bigshow2966]

When I saw it there was a cross ram 390 in it.

[H Hoover]

Originally Posted by joe cool

This is one of the two Cras that warped me forever and made me throw every cent and minute i had a race cars,( the other one was the Tension 57 Chevy out of Omaha). I'm curious ,on the original car does anyone know what the factory color was, I mean was it white and they added the red and blue or was it all repainted.?

I have a picture somwhere with them all at the Hurst facility. They were all white.

[Tom keedle]

Originally Posted by sok5

Mike Pearce recently brought back the Petes Patriot to Cruise Weekend in Kearney Raceway Park this past weekend. He was on his way from Maryland to L.A to attend the Southern California AMC club on July 28th and 29th. Following the trip to L.A. he will be bringing it back to Kearney, NE to put it into the new museum at Cabela`s, they now have a Classic Car Collection. It will be on display for one year there.

Along with the Petes Patriot will be the "Steak Maker" which Steve Mercer owns. If my notes are correct it was the original `68 Petes Patriot.

Below is a page put together from the original pictures I took when Mike first brought it to Kearney in 2002, which he had just finished restoring. On that day the original club members were on hand, including Gene Peterson, and Lou Downing, father of Rob Downing the Co-Crew Chief for Greg Anderson.

http://www.krpi.com/Results/mikepearce/petespatriot.htm

I also have a video shot that weekend of it going down the track.

which Cabelas?
there's a bunch of 'em...