1975 Pontiac Lemans Base Coupe 2-door 6.6l on 2040-cars
Greenville, Pennsylvania, United States
i have way too much $$$ invested in this thing and don't want to put any more into. if anyones interested, ask away, i'm not sugar coating anything. parts not on car: NOS rear bumper, rechromed front(driver quality), good front fenders, 1 door, trunk lid, stainless quarter window trim, nos "lemans" and "350" grill emblems, nos front bumperettes, and nice header panel emblem. chassis: 8.5" 4:10 posi rear with factory bolt in axles, spohn performance sway bars front and rear with adj. upper and solid lower rear control arms. has poly bushings in front end, QA1 single adj rear shocks, moog front/rear coil springs, 2" drop spindles, brake system rebuilt with new rotors, calipers, 11" rear drums, parking brake cables, nitro 555 drag radials, 325/50 rear and 275/60 front with 15x10 and 15x8 bassett wheels, old griffin alum rad, with ford electric fans, undercarriage was painted a while back with POR15, chassis never separated from body though. originally a GA car and the red paint is original. battery was relocated to the trunk and has a new windshield. trans is a tko600 with the .64 5th gear, steel flywheel, dennys driveshaft, hydraulic throwout bearing, ram clutch. engine is a .035 400(it's NOT a 557 block) with 87cc edelbrock heads 310cfm, JE pistons(real JE), eagle rods, decked to -.005, balanced, pete jackson gear drive, comp cams solid roller, harlan sharp 1.65 roller rockers, performer rpm manifold, 825 mighty demon, 8qt milodon oil pan, tomahawk valley pan, cast valve covers, holley electric fuel pump, mallory unlit ignition system, hedman hustler headers, 2.5" x pipe exhaust with pypes violator mufflers and mandrel bent tail pipes, mini starter. black interior has firebird front buckets that need recovered(they are white and foam isn't great), new carpet, nice dash pad, auto meter tach, oil pressure, and water temp gauges, AEM air/fuel gauge, new rear package tray, headliner has 1 tear in rear and front seat belts aren't great. just about everything was rebuilt at one time or another during my 13yrs of ownership. somethings multiple times. antique plated and road legal in PA. the trunk floor is rusted with holes, but is still mostly solid, one spot on lower left quarter panel that has a small hole rusted through, and the panel between the rear window and trunk lid has a couple small holes in it that i put jb weld on when i got it. i welded patch panels in a couple spots in the floorboards, all the loose undercoating was scrapped off and repainted with por15. once the other body parts i have are installed the car will be pretty straight and solid except for the trunk floor. i have the rocker panel trim, the right side will need to be straightened at the very front few inches. car needs weather stripping and window felts, drivers door hinge needs rebuilt/replaced, car wheel hops pretty bad if you dump the clutch and i'm tired of getting under it to adjust the control arms. motor starts easily but battery will die after a couple days of sitting, not sure if it's a bad battery(it's not very old though), draw on it from somewhere, or not charging good? no choke on carb, pump the gas 4 times and turn the key and it'll fire right up, after a minute or so it'll idle on it's own at 7-800 rpms. smokes, not sure if it's a bad pcv, rings never seated, or valve stem seals? only have 700 or so miles on it, leaks from rear pan gasket or real main viton seal, and front crank seal. i should've changed the crank seal when i last swapped the cam but figured it'd be ok. i was wrong. car is a 75 but i preferred the 74 grills, have the original grills for it. you're welcome to come check it out if you're local. i know i'm asking a lot for a pretty undesirable car but i have way more(--->WAY MORE<---) into it than what it's listed at. also have a stack of receipts. i will upload more pics later. |
Pontiac Le Mans for Sale
Auto Services in Pennsylvania
Witmer`s Auto Salvage ★★★★★
West End Sales & Service ★★★★★
Walter`s Auto Wrecking ★★★★★
Tony`s Towing ★★★★★
T S E`s Vehicle Acces Inc ★★★★★
Supreme Auto Body Works, Inc ★★★★★
Auto blog
World's only 1964 Pontiac XP-833 Banshee coupe for sale by Kia dealer
Mon, Apr 20 2020It seems like there has been a spate of especially odd car sales in the first part of this especially odd year, from the numerous barn finds and homebrew specials to the time capsule cars — like the BMW wrapped in a protective bubble for 23 years. Napoli Kia in Milford, Connecticut, brings us another, via Motor1. Len Napoli is the dealership principal and die-hard Pontiac maven; his father opened Napoli Pontiac in 1958, and Len held onto the franchise until the early 2000s, just before GM shuttered the brand that built excitement. Napoli got hold of the 1964 Pontiac Banshee XP-833 coupe concept, and put the car up for sale through his Kia dealership for $750,000. The exceptional price comes from the fact that Pontiac built two Banshee concepts in 1964, one this silver coupe with a red interior, the other a white roadster, making each concept a one-of-one collector car.   Motor Trend wrote a detailed piece on this one in 2013, the editorial tour hosted by Bill Collins, the Banshee's lead engineer. The short story is that GM exec John Z. DeLorean — yes, him — gave approval to a small crew at Pontiac to create a two-seater sports car to compete with the Mustang, because GM had nothing to fend off the four-seat coupe that would sell one million units in just 18 months on the market. Collins and his team took inspiration from the 1963 Corvair Monza GT concept, working up a fiberglass body over a steel frame, with a 230-cubic-inch overhead-cam straight-six producing 165 horsepower and 216 pound-feet of torque, a four-speed manual transmission, and 9.5-inch drum brakes at all corners. The idea was that the XP-833 would be "an affordable and fun two-seat sports car," the concept demonstrating the base-model price leader offering a lengthy list of options for those who wanted more. The white roadster, in fact, fitted a 326 cubic-inch V8 under the hood. Rumor says that Chevrolet execs didn't like having another two-seater sports car in the GM fold, especially one with a fiberglass body that held weight down to 2,200 pounds. GM execs took one look at the two concepts in 1965 and shut the project down. The two XP-833s lived in a garage for years, Collins and his colleague Bill Killen getting permission to buy the cars from GM in 1973 before Collins left to help engineer the DeLorean DMC-12. It wasn't until just before Collins departed that the XP-333 got the name Banshee.
Toyota urges owners of old Corolla, Matrix and RAV4 models to park them until airbags are replaced
Mon, Jan 29 2024DETROIT — Toyota and General Motors are telling the owners of about 61,000 older Corolla, RAV4, Matrix/ Pontiac Vibe models to stop driving them because their Takata airbag inflators are at risk of exploding and hurling shrapnel. The urgent warning Monday covers: Certain Corolla compact cars and Matrix hatchbacks from the 2003 and 2004 model years. RAV4 small SUVs from 2004 and 2005. Also covered are about 11,000 Pontiac Vibes from 2003 and 2004, which are essentially the same as the Matrix and were made at the same California factory. Most of the vehicles are in the U.S. “If the airbag deploys, a part inside is more likely to explode and shoot sharp metal fragments, which could cause serious injury or death to the driver or passengers,” Toyota said in a statement. Owners can go to nhtsa.gov/recalls and enter their 17-digit vehicle identification number to see if their cars are affected. If you're not the original owner of the vehicle, the manufacturer's recall letter might not reach you, so be sure to do the VIN check. The recalled RAV4s have Takata driver's airbags while the Corolla and Matrix models have them on the passenger side. The Corolla and Matrix also are under a separate recall because their airbags can be deployed without a crash, the company said. Both companies said owners should contact a local dealer instead of driving the cars in for repairs. Dealers will provide options such as mobile repair, towing the car to a dealer, or vehicle pickup and delivery. Takata used volatile ammonium nitrate to create a small explosion to inflate airbags in a crash. But the chemical propellant can deteriorate over time when exposed to high temperatures and humidity. It can explode with too much force, blowing apart a metal canister and spewing shrapnel. At least 26 people have been killed in the U.S. by Takata inflators since May 2009, and at least 30 have died worldwide including people in Malaysia and Australia. In addition, about 400 people have been injured. The exploding airbags sent Takata of Japan into bankruptcy. The potential for a dangerous malfunction led to the largest series of auto recalls in U.S. history. About 100 million inflators were recalled worldwide. Recalls Pontiac Toyota Takata airbag recall
This GTO-El Camino mashup is the muscle truck of our dreams
Fri, Aug 31 2018There were a hell of a lot of great muscle cars in the mid-1960s, from the baroque Dodges and Plymouths of the earlier part of the decade to the wild big boys like the Boss 429 and Olds 442 W30. Right in the middle of the decade, two of the most iconic of the bunch emerged — the Pontiac GTO and second-generation Chevy El Camino. And this one is a 1964 Chevy El Camino with the heart and face of its GTO cousin, and dubbed the El Chieftain GTO. It's currently for sale at RM Sotheby's Auburn auction, with no reserve status or estimate listed. This looks like a product that Pontiac could have sold at the time — its builder, Ron Lindeman, did an excellent job making it look like a factory product, right down to the taillight strakes inspired by the GTO. It's powered by a 389 — a Pontiac motor that was actually found in period GTOs, but sporting a single four-barrel instead of the sexy Tri-Power setup. It is, however, equipped with a Hurst four-speed manual and the grille badge to prove it to bystanders. Even the interior is made up to look like a GTO. We wish there was more of a description of the build in the listing, but if you love it, do us one better and buy the thing and invite us to poke around it. We are very much in love with this muscle-truck mashup. Related Video: Featured Gallery 1964 Chevrolet El Camino "El Chieftain GTO" News Source: RM Sotheby's Pontiac Auctions Car Buying Truck Performance Classics