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Dave does great heads too.......SD performance

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Like I said...just repeating what PHS told me years ago, made in Canada...ask GM of Canada etc....gave me the number to call and everything....here is some of what I got from GM of Canada

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Wow is that car ever stoked. What you have ther eis a US built car specifically for GM Canada market. The documentation provided now is much better than that and has a other information such as prodcution facility and date of build.

As far as Jim Wangers goes, I am one Pontiac person who takes everything he says with a grain of salt. He is a Legend in his own mind! GTO only built in Canada, in Oshawa for 1970 and 1973 and not that many either.

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The VIN shows a "P" which is Pontiac,Michigan.The same Plant my '72 GTO 455HO was built.

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The Y10 option is interesting

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CDN2PLS2 wrote:

The VIN shows a "P" which is Pontiac,Michigan.The same Plant my '72 GTO 455HO was built.


I know....I tried to explain this to phs...lol....im going to try them again...maybe their info is better now. Also interesting is the PON on the cowl tag...I thought it was just P in 72 and PON for 71 models.

 



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I have the build sheet that they sent me too....but they didn't copy it very well and all thats really legible is the serial number and all the option codes....and they missed a few options on the sheet i displayed, such as the y96. I don't think they were quite as good at this as PHS....but they did tell me that they have paperwork for every car made by GM in canada.

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Have you taken out the back seat? Sometimes the build sheet is there from production.
Very nice optioned car you have there.



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What is the meaning of the Y10 option "Build up custom door and quarter"?

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Yeah...never found anything....my lil firebird had one under the back seat though...was a cool thing to find.

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What is the meaning of the Y10 option "Build up custom door and quarter"?


You've got me there.....i was thinking it was just an gm of canada oops in figuring out the codes.

 



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What is the meaning of the Y10 option "Build up custom door and quarter"?


You've got me there.....i was thinking it was just an gm of canada oops in figuring out the code



I would guess that it would be the GTO on the door, but the 1/4 is the same for GTO and Lemans

 



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I remember looking for RPO Y10 before and concluded it was used to denote deluxe interior door panel and quarter trim.

Nice car!.
Look under the carpet for the broadcast sheet..

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Yes ...it does have the deluxe panels....

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So at the end of the day the mystery is solved. What you have is a GTO built to Canadian specifications as evidenced by the Z49 code for GM of Canada.

GM Canada has documents on two types of cars, Canadian Built and Canadian Sold like yours so PHS will not have any data on this car. End of story. smile



 



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lol...still seems kinda weird that phs wouldn't have documents on an us built car.....

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lol...still seems kinda weird that phs wouldn't have documents on an us built car.....


All the paperwork was sent to Canada. I guess they didn't keep a copy.  I wonder if your car is even included when PHS says there's so many 1972 455 HO's. That's why there's a heated discussion on how many Judge's and 455HO's there were

 



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I have often wondered about the production figures quoted on GTO's and whatever else we discuss, whether they include Canadian production and sales.

99% of the time you can't even find production facility 1 or 2 listed in all the big muscle car books and VIN decoders so I think the answer is no.

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Did I ever show you the picture of my WHITE GTO  with the original 396 in it?rofl.gif

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427carl wrote:

Did I ever show you the picture of my WHITE GTO  with the original 396 in it?rofl.gif


That's the 65 right!!!!

 



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