I had the remnants of a 72 H/O 4 speed years ago. It had the Endura nose, bench seat 4 speed, factory tach. The car was VERY rough, engine gone.


You are familiar with Dan Jensen from Michigan? He's the H/O guru. I'm not sure how much he knows about the Canadian cars though.

Sorry, no. I don't remember where it was built. I never thought of that. At that time I was more into B bodies and Acadians. I knew it was rare, but I stripped it and crushed it. I talked to Dan about it briefly at one of the POCI meets and he seemed very uninterested in hearing about it. That seemed strange to me because I know it was a very unusual car.

72's were bulit in Ste. Therese as well.

There used to be a T37 here in town-I got the M22 out of it for my Camaro at the time-someone converted the car to a BB Chev ! its still around somewhere. There was also one in Toronto (T37) a few years back for sale it was from down here too-Pete Fedun's race car when it was new.

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CDNROUNDPORT knows more about 71-72 HO cars than all of us combined.He is the EXPERT.

Ian   If you stay around here, and help us out, Todd will make you a GURU, with all the status that goes with that.....So please stay around

You better believe it! I love the 68-72 cars. For that matter, pretty much any year GTO and Lemans but the round port cars are sure neat especially.

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CDNROUNDPORT knows more about 71-72 HO cars than all of us combined.He is the EXPERT.

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I think Todd K. knows a little about them as well Rory.

Anything new in the collection Ian?

Thanks for the comments guys,the car is not a post,I have some more pics that I will post.I ran the car the first time this summer and it ran a best of 13:81 on the bias ply tires.

Ian

I have a 1972 LeMans Sport that I purchased in July '07. It has a 300 horse 400, M-20 4 speed and a 3.55 12 bolt rear. Right now it has a '70 455 370 horse motor in it. It was an Oshawa built car and was owned by a GM exec. I have the orig. 400 and I will be putting it back in the car after it has been rebuilt.
Does anyone know how to post pics on this site? I don't see anywhere to do that.

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I have a 1972 LeMans Sport that I purchased in July '07. It has a 300 horse 400, M-20 4 speed and a 3.55 12 bolt rear. Right now it has a '70 455 370 horse motor in it. It was an Oshawa built car and was owned by a GM exec. I have the orig. 400 and I will be putting it back in the car after it has been rebuilt.
Does anyone know how to post pics on this site? I don't see anywhere to do that.

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Is your '72 Lemans Sport red with a black vinyl top? It was silver originally? It sounds like it was Keith's car.

My neighbor used to have a really nice, stripped down '72 Lemans GT hardtop (base level) with very little in the way of options. Few options except for a 400 4-barrel, Hurst shifted M20 4-speed, 3.55 Safe-T-Track plus an AM radio. It had manual steering and brakes, plus most of the original factory exhaust system (the GTO duals with factory side split tips). He bought it from the original owner in 1989. Bought new in November 1971 it was put into winter storage almost right away (like it has been every year since). It had original paint, a spare set of GT stripes from new, the cloth seats were upholstered over with vinyl covers when new. It was sold new in Toronto but the car was built in Pontiac, Michigan.

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Hi, Welcome ! Must be nice to own such a rare Pontiac ! Where did you find that gem ? There is a guy here in Winnipeg who has a red 71 Lemans 455HO convertible but i'm not sure if it was built in Oshawa ? I could find out next time I see him, I don't know when though.

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I'm not 100% on this but I believe at that time all Lemans convertibles came from only one plant, in Pontiac, Michigan.