Halibrand info anyone?????

[RenoRat]

Anyone in here help me figure out what model and year this center section is?
reads

halibrand el cajon Calif 293-1907 101h
81gm1-77
anyone?????

[36-3window]

if the center section says El Cajon on it, it must be kinda new...that's where they were right before the move to kansas....i'd say it was made sometime in the 80's...before that i believe they were in torrance....and before there culver city..i think those are the oldest ones..unless i'm wrong

i'm sure someone here will know for sure

[krooser]

Didn't someone in Wisconsin own the brand in the late 70's-early 80's?

[Detonator]

Hey RR -- thanks for digging up the numbers. Halibrand was in Culver City first, then moved to Torrance in the late 60's. In the late 70's, Teddy Halibrand passed away and the company was sold to a group of guys know as ARC Industries. They moved everything to El Cajon, but a lot of the original patterns and tooling were lost in the move. By the early 80's the company was on the ropes, then went through a number of hands until it wound up in Kansas.

[36-3window]

what i said.........

[racer5c]

Ken Liebel from Wisconsin aquired Halibrand through some shady bussiness dealings from Bob Higman in Indiana who bought the rights to the name before Ted Halibrand Died, Higman and Liebel were in court for quite a long time over it. Ted and Bob were close friends. Bob only bought the rights to the racing division, not the street car stuff. He built rear ends and torsion bars and a few other parts under the halibrand name for a while. When Liebel ended up with it it was called National Halibrand. His main bussiness was called National Manufacturing. Dean Billinga a Midget racer worked for Liebel and eventually opened his own company Quick Change Specialties which made some pretty nice center sections, but had a bad racing accident and was severly hurt, his son tried running his Buss. but I am pretty sure it is now defunct.Not really sure where Richard Lejune from Kansas came in but from what I have heard there will never be anyone making stuff under the halibrand name again. Some guys from Texas I have been told have the V-8 Champ patterns and are making center sections but they dont say Halibrand on them. There is a guy in Northern CA that has a bunch of NOS Halibrand center sections but they are of the "shifter" type that did away with the in and out box on race cars.