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[Editor’s Note: After the recent story on the Rambler Rebel’s 60th anniversary, we thought we’d include this section from Bill Lenharth‘s book, “The Amazing Rambler Rebel,” which explains the most misunderstood aspect of the Rebel: its never-produced electronic fuel injection system.]
The Rambler Rebel’s basic design program was innovative and set the tone for the future of a distinct class of automobile. The car itself also had very innovative components, among them electronic fuel injection. The fuel injection system was unique in the design concepts that it employed. These same concepts would continue to be used in the fuel injection system of vehicles into the 21st century.
The development of what was to become the Bendix Electrojector System started in 1953 at the Bendix Corporation. The Bendix company decided to explore the concept of an electronic fuel injection system as a replacement for the standard carburetor that would solve all of the carburetor’s very well known problems.
How the fuel injector became economical for all autos, and from there the industry standard.
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