Friday, July 20, 2012

Junkyard Find: 1973 Pontiac Luxury LeMans

We'll follow up yesterday's '73 VW Super Beetle Junkyard Find with another car from the same year. The Super Beetle listed at $2,499 and the Luxury LeMans four-door hardtop at $3,344… but now they are just so many tons of scrap metal.
The LeMans and its GM A-body siblings got a lot bigger in 1973, and— thanks to Malaise Era legislation under the watch of noted eco-socialist Richard Nixon— cleaner at the tailpipe… at the cost of engine power.
This Pontiac 350 was rated at 150 net horsepower, versus 250 for the 350 in 1971. Some of this was just the difference between gross and net horsepower, and some was the result of a big drop in oxides-of-nitrogen-producing engine compression.
Still, these were nice discount-luxury machines in their day, even with fewer horses under the hood. Unfortunately, certain events late in 1973 really trashed the resale value of cars like this one.
Even in the 5% humidity of Great Plains Colorado, GM cars of this era still manage to rust around the rear window.
If you're bothered by the confusing climate-control interfaces in modern cars, check out this vent-control lever.
The same goes for this one-speaker "sound system."


Billy Preston would have sounded just fine on this radio— who cares about those embargoing Arabs when you've got music like this on every station?

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from The Truth About Cars http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com




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