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Originally Posted by CG
I have a buddy that bought his 69 Camaro convertible brand new. Someone had ordered it up special and then changed their mind, so my friend picked it up at a little better price than he normally would have gotten.
It came with the cross ram set up on it. He said it ran like crap so he took it off almost right away. He still has the manifold, carbs and air cleaner set up all tucked away neatly in his attic.
Wonder if he would take 200 bucks for it if I asked him nicely?  |
These are (were) worth some change, but GM just decided to rerelease these (a year or so ago). The market went down on them and so did the price, granted the OE ones are "original" the repops look just like them and work. So your buddies is a numbers matching piece for a resto nut, but the repop is qite a bit less and looks right. I'd guess It's worth $4-800 depending on how bad someone wanted it (just the intake), again they used to bring $1,000 up to $2500 as a complete deal. I want one just for the $****s and grins of having it under the hood!! On a street driven or even DD vehicle they would run crappy, because they were designed in the stone ages, but for race applications only, if it (any part, intake, spoiler, etc) was going to make it onto a race car in the Trans Am series, it had to be offered on a production car (as an option, or standard equipment). So the cross ram was supposed to be for high RPMs being sustained (302 rapped up there, too 7k rpm and above!), bbut not for stop light to stop light. With todays carbs and linkages etc, that set up would probably work pretty good. Just think a pair of 500 cfm demons!!