After 38 years I have decided to sell my LeMans. This car was built at the GM assembly plant in Oshawa, Ontario and sold by Surgenor Pontiac Buick of Ottawa Ltd. in May of 1972. From there it came to Nova Scotia where is has been ever since. When I bought the car in 1986 it had 64,000 original miles and it now has only 76,430 miles. $32500
Love it, but would have to get rid of the under-dash gauges. I see them in lots of cars but have no idea how anybody reads gauges that are around their shins.
Looks like a nice original car, and I agree with Todd that it's refreshing to see a Lemans, and not a GTO clone. Alas, at $32500, it would not have a hope in heck of happening for me. Nice to see, regardless.
MC, idiot lights dont tell you anything,I have mechanical temperature and oil pressure in one gauge hanging off the dash, it is not as hard to see/use as say the newer cars with the screens that have navigation, plus everything else on them with touch screen buttons/ links? They do look ugly but my big chrome dash also looks much nicer than any of the later plastic dashes. In my 62 Chev, I had the gauge in the clock space, I could cut a hole in my dash by the clock but havent done that yet.
That tach sure looks original, with such an original car, maybe it is. Needs 3 pedals though.
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63 Parisienne sport coupe (The Big GTO), black, maroon interior, 409 4 speed; former owner of a 59 El Camino, 63 Corvette SWC, 62 Chev Bel Air SC. 1963- Pontiac top selling car in Canada
Mahone Bay, NS Still not old enough to need an automatic
We dropped a factory tach into my ex-neighbour's '72 Le Mans GT (a stripped-down go-fast car). It was drop-in easy, as the 1968+ dash circuit boards can accommodate them. He bought the tach used but perfect from Early Birds.
It is funny that the Le Mans sold here in '72 could have either a Chevrolet or Pontiac 350. If it was a GT (built in Pontiac MI) it got a Pontiac engine, but if a Le Mans with a 350 and the equipment specified could be built in Oshawa, it would get the Chevy engine. Likely because of the kinship with the Chevelle on line 2 Oshawa, they also offered on Chevelles the th350 trans behind the 250 six (n/a on U.S. Chevelles 71-72).
Oshawa installed 12-bolt type C rears on Le Mans with 400 or 455 power, whereas in the U.S. it was 455 only.
Minus the vinyl roof cover & wire wheelcovers, that Le Mans looks just like the car the librarian at my senior public school drove in the mid-1970s.
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67 Chevelle Malibu Sport Coupe, Oshawa-built 250 PG never disturbed.
In garage, 296 cid inline six & TH350...
Cam, Toronto.
I don't judge a man by how far he's fallen, but by how far back he bounces - Patton
