RAIV and RAV more continuation....

[tjs44]

really dont know why they would have"trashed" them in 69 or 70 as they were avail.over the counter to more than factory guys.They made a lot of 400 crate motors.I could understand it if there was stuff laying around in the late 70s when the parts would have droped off the catalog.You HAVE to remember that the guys that were involved in these projects are very old now(damn im old)and most of them are now ledgends in their OWN minds.I know a couple of the old pontiac racers that have been telling so many lies for so long they believe them.Tom

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[Steve_Hoog]

Tom I STILL can't find that HPP, what gives? My subscription isn't here, there are dozens of the last addition on the stand yet Gary got his. Whats up?

[tjs44]

no clue!Maybe just pay the bill!LOL

[Steve_Hoog]

Well my gas got shut off, but please not my HPP!!!

Tom you ever see this, wonder if the article is any good?



Another plant pic:



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[tjs44]

no not that one.

[Steve_Hoog]

Looks like a 64 A body front:



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[Steve_Hoog]

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How did the Ram Air cars run?
Ram Air cars? I don't remember driving Ram Air cars in '66 in the plant. I know that they had 'em, I don't remember driving 'em. I don't even remember seeing them pans on them cars. If they put them on, it was in plant 16 or someplace that I didn't see them. I don't remember a ram air car in , 67 either. I remember people talking about them. Something special on this car. I remember , 69, which was the first year they had the little hood flutters that worked. That was the first year I remember seeing something un*der the hood. At that time our opinion in the plant was that this is just something to attract the attention of the people. It gives the car fresh air, it doesn't force air in, it doesn't do anything, it
just opens it up so it gets more air. The people in the plant, as an overall opinion, weren't im*pressed with this. At that time I wasn't too much impressed with what I called "round-body" cars, the '68 and 69's, I had already gotten rid of my GTOs. I was a family man by now, but I still loved to drive 'em down there. The Ram Air IV cars in '69*every now and then you'd see the lettering on the hood that said "RAM AIR IV"- these cars hauled butt. I know that. They were fast.


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[StealthBird]

Steve, that Drag Racing Magazine is the issue that I posted photos from (a few pages back now) of the 69 RAV Firebird.