Bruno17's Cool 1969 GTO

**Xplantdad** · #1 09-18-2006, 05:44 AM

Hi Bruce,

My car was sold new in a small town just west of Winnipeg,Manitoba. Built in Pontiac and shipped out May 21 1969. The dealer sold several ram air iv cars one of which was a 69 ram iv trans am. They had it drop shipped at Royal Pontiac so that Milt Schornak could tune it for NHRA competition at Gimli raceway in Manitoba.A short time after they got the car home they had Milt fly in to do a bobcat tuneup on their customers ram air IV and ram air III cars.

Milt recalls my car and also the fact that the owner smashed the car later that year.He also recalled that he ordered the exact same equipment and powertrain in a 70 GTO.

I was able to contact the second owner of the car who had no idea that it was a ram IV car. He bought it from a used car lot and only drove it a few years.He said that he found out later that the car was hit and they did a poor repair job and that the car kept blowing motors.I guess he didn't realize the 4.33 was still in the rear.He sent the car to the wrecker a few years ago and that's when "the call" was made to George Zapora at General Motors to see if
in fact this car was a real 4.33 gear car.

I bought the car from the gentleman that checked on the history before they were about to crush it.The fact that the car sat so long in a dry western climate explains why the car had such minimal rust. Jim Johnston of Canadian Collision brought this car back to life with a painstaking restoration.John Stefko of Stefko engines built the ram air IV to NHRA stock specs so that we could once again drag race it as it did in '69.

I hope that this exposure on this website will put me in contact with the orig owner. I'd love to hear more from previous race history and share its current status as a stock 12 second supercar..........er Pontiac. Best pass so far is 12.55/114.30 mph 1.99 60'

Hoping that we can better that mark at Mid MIchigan Motorplex this weekend.

Thanks Bruce...I'm honoured to be featured on your website.

Thanks,

Bruno