Still more cars that never were......

I enjoy finding out about cool stuff that missed production for whatever reason, but it also irritates me greatly when some yahoo starts telling me that he or a friend had some rare car that I know for a fact was never built. Here's a few that I keep hearing about that I love to hate. # 1. 1967-68 428 CJ Mustang. The 428 did not become optional in the Mustang until 1969. The 390 was an option in 1967-68. Carroll Shelby stuffed 428s in some 390 models, added swoopy bodywork and other upgrades and called them GT500s. Bob Tasca-owner of Tasca Ford swapped T-Bird 428s into Mustangs and had great success drag racing them, but the fact is the 428 did NOT become a regular production option until 1969 when the bodystyle changed.  # 2. 1969 Boss 429 Cougar. Ford only built the Boss 429 Mustang to homogolate the engine for NASCAR. The rules at the time said you had to sell at least 500 cars to the public before you could race them. The Boss wasn't even built by Ford. They started life as 428 Mach 1s, and were farmed out to Kar Kraft in Michigan for the Boss 429 conversion. Ford lost money on every Boss 429 Mustang they built, so it made no sense to offer a Mercury Cougar version. At least two were built for Drag racer "Dyno" Don Nicholson, but again, these were 428 Eliminators converted by Kar Kraft. Other than Nicholson's race cars, there was never a Boss 'Nine Cougar. Period.  # 3. 1971-72 GTO station wagon. This one really drives me up the wall. In 1971-72 you could buy a LeMans wagon with the scooped hood and "Endura" ( read GTO-type ) front bumper and grille. And you could get a 400 or 455 in a LeMans wagon, and if you didn't want hubcaps and wanted to pay extra, you could get the Rally II or Honeycomb style wheels used on GTOs and Firebirds. For the interior you could order front bucket seats, and you could order the rally guage package and the "Formula" ( Trans-Am style ) steering wheel.  But the 455 was the generic 250 hp 455 used in the "big" cars-i.e.-Bonneville, Catalina, Grand Ville, etc. The 335 hp ( 300 net in 1972 )  455HO that had RAIV heads and intake and exhaust manifolds and an "068" cam that was standard in the Trans Am and optional on the GTO, T37 Tempest, ( "LeMans GT" in 1972 ) and Formula Firebirds was NEVER, EVER, available in the LeMans wagon. Contact Pontiac Historical services if you want. Pontiac NEVER built a GTO wagon, not even by mistake. If you see a GTO wagon, it's a LeMans Sport or Luxury LeMans wagon that some clown has put GTO emblems on. Which brings up.... # 4. 1964 Olds 442 Station Wagon. In 1964 sales literature, the 442 package-which stood for "Four-barrel carb, four-speed trans, and dual exhaust" ( 4-4-2, get it? ) was listed as available on ANY Cutlass or F85 model which included 4-doors and wagons. However, I have never seen one, nor has one ever been verified by any reputable magazine-i.e. Hot Rod, Musclecar Review, etc, nor has any one ever produced a build sheet or window sticker for one, and none has ever been verified by any Olds engineer or other GM employee past or present. All "Real" 442s were two-door coupes.  # 5. 1969-70 Ram Air V GTO.  Pontiac engineers toyed with a "Tunnel Port" head design much like a 427 Chevy or Boss 302 Ford for a while. Originally slated for the Trans-Am racing program-Herb Adams and company found out that the 303 cubic inch engines actually made more power with the smaller RAIV heads. However, drag racers like Doug Nash and Arnie Beswick discovered that when placed on the 400 and 428 blocks and coupled with a very hot General Kinetics solid-lifter cam, that they really rocked, even outrunning the vaunted Chrysler Hemis. Arnie Beswick campainged an RA V Judge, and Royal Pontiac and Milt Schornak campaigned an RA V GTO in stock class drag racing. 2 or 300 of these engines were built and sold over the counter out of dealership parts departments to racers, but there was never a Pontiac-built production version. Mastermind