Rare One Owner Red Can Am on 2040-cars

Year:1977 Mileage:115954

Location:

Bradenton, Florida, United States

Advertising:

Get yourself, or your sweetheart a great Valentine's Day present, it's even the right color!

This is a one owner 1977 Pontiac LeMans with the Can Am performance package, and as far as I know the only one in this color, all were made in white, this one is not. The short lesson is that there were either 1,177 or 1,377 (Depending on your source, no one seems to pin down a hard number) LeMans Sport Coups converted into Can Ams by a company called Motortown Corporation in 1977 as a GM project to resurrect (sort of) the GTO. The project got cancelled by GM when the stamping machine that made the rear spoilers broke and was down for most of the spring. With hundreds of white LeMans SC's sitting in the yard at the factory, GM management eventually pulled the plug on the project and sent the last batch of about 450 machines to be modified after the stamping machine was fixed. There isn't much else to say, if you're looking for one of these then you know what we are talking about, if you've never heard of it before, ask questions and I'll try to answer as best as possible.

When I purchased the car, I was working at a Pontiac dealer in Ypsilanti Michigan and was told it was sent in with the last batch of Sport Coupes that went off to Motortown for conversion to the Can Am. Supposedly our Sales Manager was a golfing buddy of the VP of Pontiac at the time and he is the one that slipped the red one in at the last minute. I can't verify that, but that's what the manager of the dealership told me when I bought it and hey, it's a good story. I purchased this in August 1977 as my first new car and drove it for twelve years as my only vehicle. I had it restored in 2000 although the numbers don't match anymore, the heads got lost but I acquired a set of factory correct units and the motor is in stock configuration. The last 10 months the car has been sitting outside and there was a leak that allowed water to do the damage you see in the photos of the interior. The engine and drive train, in fact the entire car, only has 15,000 miles on it since it was restored, the tires have less than 500 miles on them and are a year old. If it were not for the rusted out floor, you could drive this car anywhere, although the gas bill would be a bit high.

The car is equipped with the Pontiac T/A 6.6 (400 C.I.D.(Option W72)) engine with 4 bbl carb rated at 200hp at 4,000 rpm, and 325-lbs.ft. of torque at 2,200 rpm with a TurboHydramatic 400 transmission running a G80 code positrac rear end. Some Can Ams were built with the 6.6 Litre (403 C.I.D. Oldsmobile) engine with 4 bbl carb., but this one sports the Pontiac motor. The interior is the standard LeMans bench seat, Can Ams were supposed to have bucket seats with a console and floor mounted shifter and full gauge package from the Gran Prix, this car did not get that.

The only options of note are A/C which works very good and an AM/FM Stereo radio with 8 Trac tape player which does not work, but the car was and still is an eye catcher and in its day, a heavy hitter in the stoplight wars. That may sound like a bit of a stretch by today's standards but in the mid to late seventies, many cars barely boasted 150hp. The Pontiac 400 has A LOT of torque at low RPM and it can still give a good account of itself from 0 to 60. I installed headers and a custom exhaust along with the old Trans Am style side splitter tailpipes. The shaker hood is functional and at wide open throttle not only does the car feel like it's pushing you into the back seat, it sounds like a P-47 Thunderbolt on wheels.

This is not a garage queen, as I said above, I drove this car for over twelve years both city and highway, it has traversed the country and never let me down. After restoration I drove it only on short trips to local car shows and up to a year ago, almost every day to work, I would have continued had not the floor started to give out. She runs fine on pump gas and all I've used in it for the last ten years is Chevron with Techron additive fuel to keep the system clean. The oil has been changed religiously every 3,000 miles using Mobil 1 fully synthetic motor oil, and the transmission has Amsoil fully synthetic fluid in it. The cooling system has been drained and refilled every two and a half to three years and belts and hoses changed at the same time. As stated above, the tires are just about a year old with about 500 miles on them and filled with nitrogen. The car drives straight, no pulling left or right and cruises fast or slow, your choice, although at 70+ it gets a little noisy with the 3.23 rear and that three speed automatic, but power is instantaneous if your foot gets itchy as more than one tail light gazer can attest.

It's tough to let this car go, but circumstances are forcing my hand, this is a good solid eye catching machine that makes everyone take notice when you pull in wherever you go, be it the grocery store, the beach, a hamburger joint or a national car show.

Hello Kitty plate not included.

I reserve the right to end the sale of this machine at any time.
The car is sold as is and where is, no warranty implied or stated.
The buyer is responsible for all shipping / transporting costs.
I will assist and cooperate with shipping companies if needed, I have bought and sold other cars over the years and know the way things work.
A $500 deposit is required immediately after the auction ends and an email with your contact information.

Thanks for stopping by.

Pontiac Le Mans for Sale

Auto Services in Florida

Yokley`s Acdelco Car Care Ctr ★★★★★

Auto Repair & Service, Automobile Parts & Supplies, Automobile Electric Service

Address: 230 Hatteras Ave, Clarcona

Phone: (352) 241-0686

Wing Motors Inc ★★★★★

Used Car Dealers, Wholesale Used Car Dealers

Address: 125 NW 27th Ave, Coral-Gables

Phone: (305) 642-4455

Whitt Rentals ★★★★★

New Car Dealers, Car Rental

Address: 1807 N Nova Rd, Barberville

Phone: (386) 252-0011

Weston Towing Co ★★★★★

Auto Repair & Service, Towing, Truck Wrecking

Address: 2850 Glades Cir, Tamarac

Phone: (954) 349-4827

VIP Car Wash ★★★★★

Auto Repair & Service, Car Wash, Automobile Detailing

Address: 5910 S Military Trl, Briny-Breezes

Phone: (561) 965-6000

Vargas Tire Super Center ★★★★★

Auto Repair & Service, Automobile Parts & Supplies

Address: 2995 NW 79th St, Indian-Creek-Village

Phone: (305) 218-6503

Auto blog

NHTSA could add 1M cars to GM recall

Wed, 13 Mar 2013

The Detroit Free Press is reporting that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration may expand a recall campaign for faulty brake lamps. The agency is currently looking into complaints that certain 2004-2011 Chevrolet Malibu models as well as some 2007-2009 Saturn Aura sedans may have brake lights that do not illuminate when the driver presses the pedal. Alternatively, the lamps may also illuminate without input from the driver. General Motors recalled 8,000 Pontiac G6 models from the 2005 model year for the same problem, and NHTSA is currently investigating whether to add 550,000 more G6 models built between 2005 and 2009 to the list for the same issue.
In addition, investigators are currently examining 97 complaints from Malibu and Aura owners with the same trouble. If NHTSA adds those models to the recall campaign, more than one million units could be covered. GM, meanwhile, says there have been no accidents or injuries as a result of the problem.

Junkyard Gem: 2000 Pontiac Grand Prix Daytona 500 Edition

Tue, Aug 29 2017

The W Platform proved to be extremely long-lived and versatile for General Motors, remaining in production from 1988 all the way through 2016. You had your Impalas and your Regals and your Cutlass Supremes, and of course the 1988-2008 Pontiac Grand Prix was a W-body. For the 2000 model year, Pontiac made the racy-looking Daytona 500 Edition Grand Prix, an example of which I just found in a Northern California self-service wrecking yard. 2,000 of these cars were made, presumably because it was the year 2000, and each one sports plenty of cool-looking Daytona 500 graphics. Perhaps some Regal owner will buy these seats and swap them. This is the second junked Daytona 500 Grand Prix I have seen recently, after this one in Colorado. The Daytona 500 was about the same as the GTP version, with Eaton-supercharged 3800 engine making a respectable 240 horsepower. Disappointingly, this car has an automatic transmission. It never saw 150,000 miles, unlike most 21st-century W-bodies I see in wrecking yards. Featured Gallery Junked 2000 Pontiac Grand Prix Daytona 500 Edition View 21 Photos Auto News Pontiac Sedan

GM knew about fatal Chevy ignition problem decade before recall

Fri, 21 Feb 2014

Well, this is not good for General Motors. Following a report last week that GM was recalling 778,000 Chevrolet Cobalt and Pontiac G5 compacts over concerns that the ignition could switch out of the "run" position without warning, USA Today reports that the Detroit-based behemoth knew about the issue, which affected 2005 to 2007 Cobalts (the Cobalt shown above and in the gallery is from 2010) and 2007 Pontiac G5s, all the way back in 2004.
The information comes from a deposition in a civil lawsuit against GM, obtained by USA Today, which claims that a GM engineer experienced the issue while the then-new model was undergoing testing. The issue was "solved" when a technical service bulletin was issued in 2005, informing dealers to install a snap-on key cover on the cars of customers who complained about the issue. According to the Cobalt's program engineering manager, Gary Altman, the cover was an "improvement, it was not a fix to the issue."
The case where the depositions were made was from 2010, and involved Brooke Melton, a 29-year-old pediatric nurse in Georgia who was killed on her birthday. At the time, police claimed she was going too fast on a wet, rural road, although it later came out through the black box that her car's ignition had come out of the "run" position at least three seconds before the accident (the max amount of time a black box records before a wreck), disabling her airbags, power steering and anti-lock brakes. According to USA Today, police said Melton was "traveling too fast for the roadway conditions," although it's impossible to know if she'd have been in the wreck, which injured the occupants of another vehicle, had her 2005 Chevy not shut off. GM settled the Melton family's case, although the details remain confidential.