JetRider wrote:

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My best friend had a 74 Lemans Sport Coupe when we were young.Had a 455 in it with buckets and console...silver with red interior and was just a monster.It was a beautiful car.Wondering what were the factory engine options in those cars from 74?? I was shocked to see a 6 in this one after riding around in his car...never ever thought of a 6 cyl in that car.

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 In Canada, 250 - 6, Chev 350 2 & 4 bbl with duals on 4 bbl , Pontiac 400 2 & 4 bbl duals and single depending, 455 4 bbl with duals .

Sounds like the original owners knew how to order a car, Remember in 74 the GTO had transferred to a Ventura body so an performance A body buyer was more or less directed to the Grand Am or LeMans GT.

It would be nice to know if that 455 was original to the car, seems like it was by how you describe the car and that would make it pretty special. Wish I had seen it. Again I have to admit to never seeing an original 455 LeMans of this era although I do know of a 77 with a 455 in it that was originally a 305. That was a horrendous swap because the car was built in Oshawa with a Chevrolet engine. My 454 swap was easy since my Oshawa car was originally a Chevy 350.

Any way you cut it a Lemans with a 455 is darn cool and a 454 isn't too shabby either.

PS: I notice I missed the Pontiac 350 2bbl on my engine post, that would have been reserved for a car that had to be brought across the border to fill a Canadian order, could have been a special model or options that Oshawa didn't build.

I see the car has 14" wheels. It would have been equipped with bias ply tires although the '74s were the year GM really rolled out radials & RTS across the board as an option. Grand Ams, Corvettes & Cutlass Salon all got radials starting '73. GM even dabbled with radials as an obscure option on the Firebird in the late 1960s.

Below is a Proving Ground photo of a '74 Le Mans coupe with the larger triangular side window, GT equipment, G70-14 bias ply tires on 14" Rally II wheels, dual exhausts mean it could be something interesting under the hood (make mine a 400 4-barrel with a 4-speed manual).

That year in Canada only you could order a Le Mans with an orange Chevrolet 350 4-barrel L48 with duals & no a.i.r. pump (I know, in a '74?). U.S. made Le Mans had the blue Pontiac 350 4-barrel re-instated after being dropped for '70.