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by Sean Mattingly. 1969 GTO Hardtop Parking Lot There's no bigger GTO image collection anywhere! |
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... PICTURE SET CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE CLICK-> ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() CLICK-> ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() CLICK-> ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() CLICK-> ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() CLICK-> ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() CLICK-> ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() CLICK-> ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Here's some information on the above car supplied by Bryan Wilemski. (His wife's brother owns it.) It's a 1969 RAM AIR V Royal Bobcat. The factory did not install the engine but Pontiac did order the car to be built for Pontiac with the help of Royal Pontiac. I do remember some of the history of the car. John Delorean and Jim Wangers ordered the car for a Pontiac Development Project. Pontiac picked it up from the factory W/ the RAM AIR IV engine. Usually the dealership would be the next in line to take delivery at the end of the assembly line. The paperwork read something to the effect of ordered for Engineering Development Demo with a cost of $2300. The car was selling for around $3400 new. Pontiac gave the car to Royal and had a full RAM AIR V motor delivered to Royal Pontiac. Royal Pontiac did the Bobcat RAM AIR V installation and was the first owner to title the car. They displayed, raced and showed the car to all the car magazines with Milt Schornack and Jim Wangers. Even though there was a little over 200 RAM AIR V engines produced most of them were sold in pieces or were purchased by the people with connections. John Delorean, Mickey Thompson, Race Teams, Executives of GM, etc. The 1969 Royal Bobcat which received the RAM AIR V engine from Pontiac was not an assembly line installed engine but was a Pontiac ordered RAM AIR V GTO. The documented history of the car and all the paperwork make it a great collector vehicle. Does anyone know of any other documented RAM AIR V GTO's from Royal Pontiac? There is some George Delorean did in his own shop after he purchased the Bobcat rights. Does anyone know the whereabouts of these? Here's an email that Warren Hanbury sent to Bryan Wilemski about the Royal Bobcat car, above: From: Warren Hanbury (warrens-warriors@prodigy.net) To: Bryan Wilemski (wilemski@RUST.NET) Hi , seen the ram air 5 article of yours on Sean's site, very nice. We own the original set of RAIV headers that were custom made in 1969 for your wives brothers GTO for the May 1969 Superstock magazine test article along with a 69 ram air III Judge. They were put back in the original box like new, I guess when they dropped in the 5. I bought them in the mid seventies. We would like to find other five owners to possibly start an owners registry or just to trade parts or whatever. Warren Hanbury CLICK-> ![]() CLICK-> ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() CLICK-> ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() CLICK-> ![]() CLICK-> ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() CLICK-> ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() CLICK-> ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() CLICK-> ![]() |
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