70 Judge RAIV and V continuation

[Steve_Hoog]

My families dealership never had a car go to engineering that I'm aware of, so I wouldn't have anything to look back on in our files to verify that either way.

Date shipped, could be the date it went to engineering, and interest from could be when it left engineering.

Rita your doing a great job, we just need some way to verify.

We have a man that will probably be making a post some time today that will probably establish your theroy on the date code correlation with the production number. He also thinks all of them started in a 6. If your theroy is correct, all we have to do is find the date it left engineering. It will either prove it didn't happen, or leave the door open.

I'm working on the your date code theory, you think you can find out if the dates on the invioce actually reflect engineering?

[L67WT1]

First of all regarding the date code theory. Pontiac did make some Ram Air V blocks in 69.They were in fact developed for Trans Am racing (303CID) and strip tested in a 69 GTO (400 cid) first. Are you trying to say that if this motor pre-dates the car that it is the real deal. Well I don't believe that. It just means someone purchased a date coded 69 block.

The block in the artcle Mrs Billybobcat attached was date coded 70. The serial production number you are trying to validate is later in the sequence and should have a later date code. If anyone knows RA V's the Shultzes do they have a lot of documentation and a car that is documented.

A 69 car with documentation but a 70 car without, why do you think someone would not document that 70 car? It's only a year later. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/dunno.gif[/img]

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