I heard that my car was being discussed here. (Nice website by the way). I own the 69 Comanche Firebird convertible with the 348 option L74 engine. The PHS docs appears earlier in this thread. I am third owner of the car which has 51,000 miles on it.
I can assure that my documentation has not been altered. I got the PHS docs in 1994. It came with the VIN, Model and "F/B 400 R/A" with yellow hiliter marks from PHS.
I also got the car documentation from GM Canada in Oshawa. It lists "L74 ENGINE,RAM AIR III"
It is clear that the car never had pans ordered or installed by the dealer (Grant Hamilton Pontiac in Montreal). As part of the "Comanche" package, they pulled the hood inserts and chromed them, and appears that they put on a GTO dual snorkel air cleaner with chrome lid.
Personally, I don't care whether I call it a 400HO or RAIII without pans. It is what it is. That is the beauty of these old Pontiacs!
Regards, Steve
Thanks Steve. I don't care that much whether you call them R/A or HO either. I think the part that I can't get past is telling someone they do not have a RAIII when their invoice says they do. And then they all should be called the same thing to keep uniformity. For the sake of 'order' I'll call all(69)348's RA III. I think most of the owners will be happy with that. And that's All Good!
