My first car was a hand me down from my parents when I turned 16, and it was a 1973 Pontiac Lemans T37. Used to love the steering wheel on that thing, it was huge. And the radio antenna inside the windshield was pretty cool too.
I had a hell of a time in mine senior year and the next to summers. Sold it to a guy from Brooklyn while I was stationed at Ft. Campbell, Kentucky. Of all the cars I've owned and sold would really like to have that one back. Lol
I had a 1970 great car 4 door...rare. look at the space in the door at the hinges...hysterical. remember those days of nothing fitting right. Yet...GM is still in business. Go figure. And those damn engineers still got pensions.
I'll take mine with a 455 HO, M-22, and a 3.55 12 bolt posi, thank you very much. (Maybe throw in a tach, some factory gages, and a set of 7"x14" rally IIs would finish it off nicely.) :)
Looks like a Nova Interior to me. And they're showing optional Automatic Transmission and White Sidewall tires and full wheel covers. I mean who they kidding? Lol
I had one, "Canadian version", it had a chev 350. It went okay. No torque, just horsepower on the higher rpms. Understood now, the comparison with my '70 GTO 428. Had way more torque. Only way to move those cars on the street is with torque. The good horsepower makes the difference. Like a BBC in a Chevelle.
People refer to it as the Chevy 350, but it wasn't really a Chevy Engine. It was built by GM's McKinnon Industries LTD, Engine Division. That division produced GM engines and would sell them to out side companies as well as divisions of GM. Companies like Checker Motors and Avanti Motor Corporation would use McKinnon engines, they were similar to Chevy but not the same. Pontiac of Canada used them in their cars.
Funny advertised pure pontiac , but within 6years. , put buick , chev. , and oldsmobile engines in pontiacs , it was all downhill for gm after that , so many customers flipped out when their gm cars had other corporations engines in them ..
Technically, not other "Corporation" engines....other "Brands, they were all part of GM, one corporation which was the argument and frankly, the tradition had been in place a long time of sharing engines, Chrysler, Ford, AMC even Studebaker Packard shared the same engines among brands......GM was the hold out
That and also for the separate shoulder belts hanging on the ceiling. They needed a separate buckle for the lap belt and another for shoulder belt. The belts didn't become a combination, 3-point belt until the 1974 models.
@@noahgaray7923 --I hadn't seen your response until now. You are correct for possibly in '72 where they had a hole in the lap belt for the shoulder harness to attach into thus making one three-point belt system like what came in '74. However, if you'll stop the video on the seat picture, you'll see that there are FIVE buckles. Two are for the driver: one lap and one separate shoulder belt connections. One for the middle passenger lap belt. Then the other two for the right-front passenger: separate lap and shoulder belts. The shoulder belts at that time had a simple latch plate which went into the buckle just like on a lap belt from the late 60s up to the '71 ('72?) models. I do remember attaching a shoulder belt to the lap-belt hole in a '73 Olds one time. Then in '74, all cars had the three-point shoulder/lap belt configuration.
Pontiac used their own Engines, Chevy had their own Engines, the chassis of the car is very similar, the body's are similar in size and style but completely different.
The differences I noticed in 1985 at age 17, was better handling on my '70 GTO, compared to my cousin's '70 Chevelle. My friends said the same thing. His had a 454 LS-5. I had a 400. I beat him in a drag race by a car length. He barely beat me on a high speed race another time. The Chevelle had plastic inner front fenders, as the GTO has metal. The Chevelle has a sheet metal headlight shrouds, plastic grill and stainless trim, chrome bumper. All light weight. The GTO, has an Endura Bumper with metal bracing. Plastic grills, metal inner fenders. Heavier. More positive weight ahead of the steering components. But heavier for drag racing. Need more power and torque to overcome the extra weight. The GTO has eyebrows in the side of the fenders and rear quarters. The fenders slice the air differently, affects handling.
lol what do you mean real options? This car didn't even have reclining seats ... much less a backup camera option or even airbags. Let this sink in: It didn't have reclining seats
@@624radicalham these things had multiple great engine options. It was essentially the "poor man's" GTO. If that isn't a real option I have no clue what is.
I would guess zero. By 2010, any surviving 72 Pontiac would be a parts car worth more than the clunker value of a grand or it be restored or under restoration. It was almost 40 years old when that program started. I don't think in the USA that many classics were destroyed, unlike the UK version where many classics lost their life.
