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1968 Pontiac Lemans on 2040-cars

Year:1968 Mileage:96031 Color: rear quarter panels were replaced
Location:

Boise, Idaho, United States

Boise, Idaho, United States

This second owner car was special ordered from Pontiac, Michigan for a Pontiac Dealer's son in Oregon. Included in the special order was red paint, bucket seats, center console, S 275 horsepower 350 V8 with two barrel carburetor and automatic transmission. Unfortunately, the original owner was killed in Vietnam. The car was stored for a while, and eventually sold to Mr. & Mrs. Gable in 1968 who owned the car for the next 41 Years. When I purchased the car in 2009 it had not been driven for a while. Mr. Gable made a run at restoring the car for their 40th wedding anniversary, but ran out of time and patience. Fortunately he didn't change anything from stock. The rear fenders had the normal rust around the rear fender chrome and there was a small dent in the right front fender, but overall it was in good condition. I started the on frame restoration in 2009. Both interior and exterior rear quarter panels were replaced, a new rear bumper was fitted (the chrome was pitted on the old one), the engine was rebuilt with new lifters, valves, cam, timing chain, water pump, oil pump, dual exhaust, alternator, ignition switch, rebuilt carburetor, transmission and radiator. I smoothed the body and applied original color paint. The interior was reupholstered and sound deadening added. The carpet, head liner and many trim items were replaced. Improvement to safety and drivability include new disk brakes, master cylinder, electronic ignition and 15" wheels. As you can see, the paint is impeccable and the car shows very well.  Runs and drives great.  Just needs a new owner.

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NHTSA investigating 550k Pontiac G6 models, 320k Honda Odysseys

Mon, 10 Jun 2013

According to two separate reports in The Detroit News, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is launching investigations into 550,000 Pontiac G6 (pictured above) and 320,000 Honda Odyssey (pictured right) models. The G6 models are all from the 2005 to 2007 model years, while the Odyssey minivans are from the 2003 and 2004 model years. The two NHTSA probes are not related.
In the case of the G6, this is an upgrade to an original investigation that started in February after NHTSA received "hundreds of reports" that the brake lights on these cars may malfunction. According to The Detroit News, the lights may come on when the brake pedal is not depressed, and likewise, the brake lights may not illuminate when the pedal has been pushed. General Motors was able to provide NHTSA with a significant number of warranty claims, including 1,100 reports that could potentially relate to this problem, one of which indicates a vehicle crash.
For Honda, the NHTSA probe concerns airbags that may deploy unexpectedly. The government agency received six complaints from 2003-04 Odyssey owners saying that the front airbags suddenly went off without a crash. The Detroit News reports that three of the six owners sustained injuries from these incidents. Additionally, NHTSA has received 41 complaints from owners saying the vehicle's airbag warning light had illuminated.

Here are a few of our automotive guilty pleasures

Tue, Jun 23 2020

It goes without saying, but I'll say it anyway. The world is full of cars, and just about as many of them are bad as are good. It's pretty easy to pick which fall into each category after giving them a thorough walkaround and, more important, driving them. But every once in a while, an automobile straddles the line somehow between good and bad — it may be hideously overpriced and therefore a marketplace failure, it may be stupid quick in a straight line but handles like a drunken noodle, or it may have an interior that looks like it was made of a mess of injection-molded Legos. Heck, maybe all three. Yet there's something special about some bad cars that actually makes them likable. The idea for this list came to me while I was browsing classified ads for cars within a few hundred miles of my house. I ran across a few oddballs and shared them with the rest of the team in our online chat room. It turns out several of us have a few automotive guilty pleasures that we're willing to admit to. We'll call a few of 'em out here. Feel free to share some of your own in the comments below. Dodge Neon SRT4 and Caliber SRT4: The Neon was a passably good and plucky little city car when it debuted for the 1995 model year. The Caliber, which replaced the aging Neon and sought to replace its friendly marketing campaign with something more sinister, was panned from the very outset for its cheap interior furnishings, but at least offered some decent utility with its hatchback shape. What the two little front-wheel-drive Dodge models have in common are their rip-roarin' SRT variants, each powered by turbocharged 2.4-liter four-cylinder engines. Known for their propensity to light up their front tires under hard acceleration, the duo were legitimately quick and fun to drive with a fantastic turbo whoosh that called to mind the early days of turbo technology. — Consumer Editor Jeremy Korzeniewski  Chevrolet HHR SS: Chevy's HHR SS came out early in my automotive journalism career, and I have fond memories of the press launch (and having dinner with Bob Lutz) that included plenty of tire-smoking hard launches and demonstrations of the manual transmission's no-lift shift feature. The 260-horsepower turbocharged four-cylinder was and still is a spunky little engine that makes the retro-inspired HHR a fun little hot rod that works quite well as a fun little daily driver.

Another Burt Reynolds Trans Am is up for auction

Wed, Jan 18 2017

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