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1970 Pontiac Lemans Sport Convertible 350 4 Bbl. Automatic, Console W/ Buckets on 2040-cars

Year:1970 Mileage:50316
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1970 PONTIAC LEMANS CONVERTIBLE
350 CID 4 BBL.
AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION
REPAINTED APPROX. 2 YEARS AGO, CALIFORNIA RED. DECENT JOB. 
INTERIOR IS IN GOOD CONDITION, NEEDS SOME WORK, DASH PAD CRACKED
CONVERTIBLE TOP AND REAR WINDOW IN VERY GOOD SHAPE
POWER TOP
HAS GONE THROUGH MAJOR MECHANICAL REPAIRS AT TIME OF BODY WORK AND PAINT
NEW BATTERY AND ALTERNATOR, COMPLETE TUNE UP, WATER PUMP AND NEW COOLANT, HOSES, FRONT BRAKES, UPPER BALL JOINTS
TRANSMISSION WAS RESEALED AT SHIFTER SHAFT SEAL AND SPEEDO GEAR SEAL.
ENGINE , TRANSMISSION AND REAR DIFFERENTIAL ARE IN EXCELLENT RUNNING CONDITION
DO NOT KNOW IF ALL ARE ORIGINAL MATCHING NUMBERS, DID NOT CHECK.
REPLACED ALL WEATHERSTRIPPING, WINDOW FELTS, QUARTER GLASS CHROME AND SEALS, DOOR SILL PLATES, PILLAR POST SEALS, DOOR JAMB U-SHAPED SEALS, ALL HEADLIGHT BEAMS, CHROME LEMANS AND SPORT EMBLEMS, CHROME EXHAUST TIPS, FRONT BUMPER RECHROMED.
ALOT OF WORK AND MONEY WENT INTO THIS CAR, WAS DRIVEN LITERALLY FOR 1 WEEK THAN WAS LEFT TO SIT DUE TO ILLNESS.
HAS BEEN ONLY STARTED AND RAN TO KEEP UP ON SEALS AND GASKETS, DRIVEN A FEW TIMES AROUND BLOCK.
THIS IS A NICE DRIVER CAR WITH A REASONABLY LOW RESERVE. 
CALL WITH ANY QUESTIONS.

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Looking back at Oprah's free-car giveaway 10 years later

Fri, 12 Sep 2014



Oprah kicked off her 19th season in dramatic fashion by giving all 276 members of the studio audience a free car.
Molly Vielweber's Pontiac G6 appears unremarkable at first glance. It wears forest green paint, rolls on five-spoke aluminum wheels, and it has a sizeable scrape in the driver's side door, the scar of a decade's worth of hard use. You wouldn't notice it parked at a big box store or cruising on the highway. Pontiac made hundreds of thousands of G6s in the 2000s, and a lot are still on the road. It's unremarkable in every way except for the front license plate, which reads, "Oprah 6."

Junkyard Gem: 1980 Pontiac Phoenix LJ Hatchback

Sun, Jan 22 2023

The car-building world was rushing headlong into front-wheel-drive by the late 1970s, eager to reap the weight-saving and space-enhancing benefits of front-drive designs. General Motors designed an innovative FWD platform to replace the embarrassingly outdated Chevrolet Nova and its siblings, and that ended up being the Chevrolet Citation. The other US-market GM car divisions (except Cadillac) got a piece of the X-Body action, and the Pontiac version was called the Phoenix. Here's one of those first-year Phoenixes, not doing a very good job of rising from its snow-covered ashes in a Colorado self-service yard. Pontiac had used the Phoenix name on a luxed-up iteration of Pontiac's version of the Chevy Nova during the 1977-1979 model years, and so it made sense to apply that name to the Pontiac-ized Citation. Phoenix production continued through the 1984 model year (the Citation managed to hang on through 1985). Just to confuse everyone, the Nova name was revived in 1985, on a NUMMI-built Toyota Corolla. The LJ trim level was the nicest one for the 1980 Phoenix, and it included lots of trim upgrades and convenience features. However, even Phoenix LJ buyers had to pay extra for a three-speed automatic transmission instead of the base four-on-the-floor manual ($337, or about $1,291 in 2022 dollars). If you wanted air conditioning, that was another $564 and you had to get the $164 power steering and the $76 power brakes with it (total cost in 2022 dollars: $3,080). Affordable cars weren't so affordable back then, not once you started adding basic options. Both generations of the Phoenix had grilles influenced by those of the Pontiacs of earlier years. The base engine was the chugging 2.5-liter Iron Duke four-cylinder, but a 2.8-liter V6 was optional. This car has the V6, rated at 115 horsepower rather than the Duke's miserable 90 horses. The price tag: 225 bucks, or 862 inflation-adjusted 2022 bucks. The Phoenix was available just as a two-door coupe and five-door hatchback. The MSRP on this car would have started at $6,127, or around $23,469 now. That would have been a pretty good deal even after paying for the options, with the Phoenix's excellent mix of good interior space and solid fuel economy… but the Citation and its kin (the Oldsmobile Omega and Buick Skylark as well as the Phoenix) suffered from seemingly endless, highly publicized recalls and quality problems.

GM Design shows what could have been and what might be

Thu, May 27 2021

We periodically like to check in with GM Design's Instagram account to see what they're cooking up. Even better is when we catch a glimpse of an alternate history of what legendary designers from The General's past were thinking, though those ideas may not have made it into production. This week, for example, the account posted some illustrations from George Camp, whose career at GM spanned nearly four decades, from 1963 to 2001. One of the renderings is of what appears to be a 1971-72 Pontiac GTO Judge, but with two headlights instead of the production unit's quad beams. The rear departs from the canonical version most dramatically, with a massive integrated wing. Other bits that didn't make the production cut include large side vents, a gill-like side marker and rectangular intakes below the headlights that wouldn't be out of place on a modern design today. Amazingly, from what we can make out of the date, it appears that the drawing was done sometime in 1965, which makes it quite prescient.           View this post on Instagram                       A post shared by GM Design (@generalmotorsdesign) There's also a very aerodynamic interpretation of a Corvette ZR-1. To our eyes it splits the difference between the 1986 Corvette Indy concept and a fourth-generation F-body Pontiac Firebird, so perhaps parts of Camp's work on this sketch did make it into physical form. There's also a radical sports car concept from May 1970 that resembles the Mazda RX-500 concept from the same year, a Syd Mead-looking Cadillac coupe, and an Oldsmobile with a cool take on the company's trademark waterfall grille and elements of the Colonnade Cutlass at the rear. Other recent posts include a FJ Cruiser-like off-road EV, a sleek coupe with the Chevy corporate grille, and a rendering of a Silverado-esque pickup that looks far better than the current production version.           View this post on Instagram                       A post shared by GM Design (@generalmotorsdesign) It's pretty easy to lose hours in the account, but it's always fascinating to see GM's visions of what could have been and what might be. Related Video: