New Project 69 Trans Am - Ram Air III

[Brewster]

Cool pictures and did not know that about the M13 Top loader. Learn something new every time I surf.
Keep those pics coming,
Brew

[StealthBird]

There's a great looking 69 RAIV Trans Am at RK Motors in Charlotte right now. Some interesting before and after pics too.

1969 RAIV Trans Am

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[HO455]

Wow Mike-that is a beautiful RAIV TA. I found my dream car on their site. It looks like Troy Thornton restored it. The only thing that could make it better would be if it were black &amp; gold! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/[/img]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...;v=qSYi1FxdT7w

[RM Schimel]

Are they serious on that price for the 1969 RAIV Trans Am coupe? They need to come back down to earth. In this economy, 400K for a 69 TA convertible would be a more realistic proposition. RM

[TXSS]

&quot; an original Muncie M-21 close ratio 4-speed transmission, which was inspected during the car’s restoration and deemed just fine the way it is,&quot; Are you kidding me, they didn't rebuild the M-21. For 400K you should get a tranny that's fresh with nearly zero miles on it.

[jbsides]

Rick,

Totally agree they should have zeroed out that trans. Did you take a pass through all the pre-resto pics of that car? It was used hard and put away wet as they say, but the absolutely positive aspect IMO is that it was close to complete. Given what you know first hand about bringing a car that rough back to that level of quality, what do you think RK has in it? 125K, 150K, more? Primarily their labor I would think, but how badly would they have gotten tagged for the missing and hard to find stuff? That is the crap that has killed me.

JB

[TXSS]

I can’t say what kind of $ amount RK has in the car but if I pay 400K for a car it better not have had the frame and rear-end wire wheeled and painted in somebody’s driveway.

I’ve posted some additional pictures after I got the TA apart and on the rotisserie. One thing I noticed was that the underside appears to have been original painted a bluish/gray color. You can clearly see it where I’ve remove brackets, some of the undercoating and through the grease where there was no undercoating. Has anyone seen this color used before. Also heavy white overspray on the outer frame rails, heavy enough to maybe have been painted white.

[70 copo]

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I can’t say what kind of $ amount RK has in the car but if I pay 400K for a car it better not have had the frame and rear-end wire wheeled and painted in somebody’s driveway.

I’ve posted some additional pictures after I got the TA apart and on the rotisserie. One thing I noticed was that the underside appears to have been original painted a bluish/gray color. You can clearly see it where I’ve remove brackets, some of the undercoating and through the grease where there was no undercoating. Has anyone seen this color used before. Also heavy white overspray on the outer frame rails, heavy enough to maybe have been painted white.



















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Looks like standard off grey Norwood body primer - I have seen it before. Has a blueish tint that is also sometimes greenish too, also sometimes a shade darker or lighter.

[Brewster]

Was the Primer mixed on site (colors) or just purchased per blended by different vendors?

[RAIIIT/A]

I kinda liked the way it looked prior to the restoration.... now its just another museum piece... boring...