steve, thanks for posting the pic. this bird is phs documented and has a ---- paint code and was originally the camaro rallye green (not sure that is what the technical name is for chevy). the really bright metallic green. sometime in the late 70's it was painted this black cherry color. it is a numbers matching engine and 4 speed transmission. has the original 3:90 rear. i think it is the fastest stock pontiac that i own. years ago, a friend of mine and i would take out one of my ra 4 gto's or his ra 4 gto and one of my ra 2 gto's (all were 4 speed cars) and would take turns driving them to make sure it wasnt anything to do with the driver and race them out in the country where i lived. it didnt matter how well we tuned each car and didnt matter who was driving, the ra 2 always won. we on a few occasions ran one of my ra 4 birds against the ra 2 gto and the ra 2 would win one and then lose one. always very very close race. the bird was running 12:50 range at the track (best time of 12:46). we also ran the birds against each other and this ra 2 bird would put at least 2 to 3 car lengths on my ra 4 bird everytime.
as far as rarity, the ra 2 cars have always been the hardest to locate (for me anyway). i have found somewhere around 10 of the gto's (ones not in collectors hands) and was able to buy 3 of them. snoozed on a couple and missed out. i have only found 2 birds and was able to buy 1. the other one still sits in a garage where it probably will until the owners family sells his estate when he dies some day. my personal opinion is that they are the most over looked musclecar there is.
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