[Matt Meaney]

Originally Posted by turbo69bird

The one at Carl quest was the same engine.

Matt didn’t I get a RAV crank from you or something back in the day for my IV car?

yes you did, along with some other parts as well.

congrats on the new purchase. that bird's really going to fly with the V in there.

[turbo69bird]

Originally Posted by Matt Meaney

yes you did, along with some other parts as well.

congrats on the new purchase. that bird's really going to fly with the V in there.

Well I guess the cats out of the bag already isn’t it.

Not really worried about the HP it’s a puppy compared to my street turbo car at 960hp!
But that doesn’t mean it won’t be a whole lot of fun with the stick.
My car has two hoods. The 69, one with a cut out for dual quads and one with a solid hood both have cut for the RAIV pan. So I’ve been after this engine for a long time I actually was there before The past owner (who always gets there before me normally) when he bought it the first time but I saw a bunch of fords and 50 merc in the driveway and said ahh man Someone saw a tunnel port Ford and told me about it, had their story wrong And like a fool I left without going in.

Well it was the V and there was a IV and a III trans ams out back. Only KEN would have a front yard full of fords and back yard full of Pontiacs
He was a nice guy with a ton of stuff.

I never could get the whole story out of him how he’d acquired it.
I’d wanted to put the car and engine together for a long time , keep it all together-Bristol history I grew up about a block from
The original dealership on riverside ave.
Pretty happy I got it. I can’t thank Howard enough for keeping the history all together.

So I have the IV for it I raced it with for years, (many of you have probably seen it run) and now the V from the pro car.

I also have found some video of the pro car running down the track 1971 (really freaking cool) but because I don’t own the original copy rights, I can’t post it.

I don’t know why my car had the two hoods. That’s still a mystery. But this should settle in nicely
Int he cut hood sadly I’d gone through a lot of trouble to weld in a piece from
Another hood years ago taking so much care not to warp it, now I’ll have to cut it back out. But it’ll be worth it.

Spoke with Bill eckstrom and Tom
Mc innis both of whom drove the car and they were pretty excited too. Would have been cool on the T/A it was gonna go in but I think it wanted to be back home w a Stephens car.

A lot of people don’t know it but I runner upped with this Stephens car at high performance Pontiac day at English town maybe 1999 or so. Funny thing is my buddy Marc from plainville CT was on the cover that issue of the magazine. Red 71 bird.
I don’t think anyone knew it was a real RAIV car or the Stephens car at that time except me and few people .
Won the event a few years later with my turbo car .was a little harder w the 4spd. RAIV car.

[Frank R]

Originally Posted by turbo69bird

I never could get the whole story out of him how he’d acquired it. .

Ken purchased the V in Watertown from Jim Lavey. In the mid 70’s Jim was building a 69 GTO . He purchased a new set of Ram Air IV heads from Stephens. One of the guys in the parts department told him for the same money he would sell him the Ram Air V from their race car. If I remember correctly it had a bad piston. The roller cam was removed and someone put a new Ram Air IV cam in it so it would look more complete. ( I put that cam in a 69 Trans Am). Jim lost interest and put everything up for sale. I had the opportunity to purchase everything for 2K but dragged my feet. Ken purchased the engine and someone else the car.