Saturday, November 9, 2013

Junkyard Find: 1988 Pontiac LeMans

01 - 1988 Pontiac LeMans Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee MartinWe haven't seen many Daewoo products in this series— in fact, just this '00 Nubira wagon has made the cut, out of all the expired Lanoses and Leganzas I see— but there was a time when The General saw fit to sell a Pontiac-badged, Opel-based Daewoo LeMans next to its Chevrolet-badged Suzuki Cultus and Geo-badged Toyota Sprinter and Isuzu Gemini. The 1988-93 Pontiac LeMans never was a common sight on American roads, and its iffy reliability and plummeting resale value sent most of them onward via the Great Steel Factory In the Sky by the late 1990s. Still, someone has to win the lottery, and some Daewoontiacs have to survive on the street for as long as Grandpa's Plymouth Valiant hung on to life. Here's a miracle LeMans I found at a California self-serve wrecking yard a few weeks back.


GM's marketers did their best to spin the LeMans as a sexy-yet-sensible ride for big-haired 80s women with tiny bank balances, but the Ford-badged Kia Pride and the first-gen Hyundai Excel proved far more popular.
16 - 1988 Pontiac LeMans Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee MartinThis one made it to just 127,990 miles, which suggests either long-term inactivity or a meticulous drive-only-to-church-on-Sunday long-term owner.
18 - 1988 Pontiac LeMans Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee MartinHere's an engine that ought to provide good trivia-question material at your next Pontiac car show: the Daewoo G16SF.
20 - 1988 Pontiac LeMans Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee MartinOverhead cam! The future, it has arrived!
12 - 1988 Pontiac LeMans Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee MartinMore or less your standard-issue late-80s cheapskatemobile interior.
07 - 1988 Pontiac LeMans Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee MartinHow many of these things are left today?


The German-market Opel Kadett GSi version of this car got a sportier-looking ad campaign to go with its allegedly high-performance option package; the US-market got a GSE version with a whopping 96 horses, starting in the 1989 model year.

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

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