Vehicle Description
1971 Pontiac Lemans Sport
While the Pontiac GTO gets all the accolades and high selling
prices to go along with the hoopla, truth be told, its sibling, the
LeMans is basically the same car. The LeMans is a great alternative
to spending tens of thousands on a GTO, as both cars share the same
sheet metal, interior components and most mechanical parts. The
1968 to 1972 LeMans models are among the best-looking Pontiacs ever
manufactured and are quite plentiful, with nearly 673,000 built.
Finding parts is easy due to a huge supply of parts and a strong
aftermarket.
For consignment, the more affordable LeMans Sport from 1971. This
particular car has documentation back to 1971 upon its purchase by
a Lt. Stephen Gunn on May 19, 1971, from southern dealer Lane-Moak
Pontiac. It has spent its lifetime in the south and its metal
panels own up to that fact being all original and accident free as
well as rust free. A beautiful respray and color change but
retaining its factory drivetrain and sporting a new interior and
top but retaining the factory dash. Oh, and it's a convertible!
Exterior
Bathed dual stage bright red paint, which covers laser straight
steel panels with awesomely minded gaps. Everything about this car
is straight and true. Some slight underlying beginnings of rust is
noted on the rear deck just aft of the rear of the canvas top.
Bumpers and all chrome are the beneficiary of careful caring
through time. Above the front bumper is a split grille which has
the Pontiac beak and that is flanked by dual headlights with shiny
bezels. That split grille and beak is mimicked by a chrome
encircled grille. To the rear and we see inset taillights in the
back bumper, more straight steel for the rear quarters and trunk
lid. Roofline has a beautiful tapered descent by the canvas from
the roof to the trunk lid and sports a clean glass in the back.
Correct 14-inch Rally II machined shiny 5 spoke wheels are all
around and these are wrapped by Hankook Optima radials with thin
white walls.
Interior
Moving to the interior which is covered in black vinyl from the
door panels to the seats, which are buckets with adjustable
headrests in front and a long and clean rear bench. Door panels are
in black vinyl and are in very good condition. All seats have a
textured ribbed ebony charcoal gray insert and smooth vinyl
bolsters in black. These nicely preserved seats are floating in a
sea of black unfaded carpet. The dash is all original and presents
in black padding with some wood applique for the deep inset
circular gauge cluster. Fronting this beautiful dash is a correct
formula steering wheel which has a black rim. A factory AM/FM radio
is neatly inserted into a horizontal machined spun aluminum pattern
trim strip. In the center a white ball topped Hurst shifter which
resides with a black painted over red vinyl console. Black vinyl is
tight and creates the headliner.
Drivetrain
As the hood opens, we see a fully restored numbers matching 350ci
V8 L30 mill. It is painted turquoise and has chromed valve
coverings. On top is a recently rebuilt 4bbl carburetor and on back
is a factory Muncie 4-speed manual transmission which codes out to
be numbers matching and correct for this car. On the back for the
rear axle is a 10 bolt 3.23 version. All looking shiny and nice in
this engine bay.
Undercarriage
Barely a hint of surface rust to be seen, all black steel that is
structurally sound and not even spattered with road dirt. A clean
stock exhaust snakes its way rearward, passing independent coil
springs up front, and a 4 link with coil springs on the rear. Power
drum brakes are on the front and back of the car.
Drive-Ability
A beautiful driver that started right up, and handled our test
track passing with flying colors. Good acceleration, nice cruising,
and great brakes and we are all safe here. All working
functionality and ice cold air conditioning.
A truly wonderful example of the LeMans Sport. A nice respray, new
white canvas convertible top, and new interior seat coverings and
door panels with the original dash with its wood applique panel for
the instrument background. Time to get your "beak on".
VIN DECODE
234671P156875
2-Pontiac
37-Lemans Sport
67-Convertible
1-1971
P-Pontiac, MI Assy Plant
156875-Sequential Unit Number
TRIM TAG
ST 71 23767-1971 Lemans Sport Convertible
BDY PON134420-Pontiac Body #
TR 269-Black Vinyl Buckets
PNT 13B-Nordic Silver, Black Top
05A-1st Week May Build
B84-Body Side Moldings
Classic Auto Mall is a 336,000-square foot classic and special
interest automobile showroom, featuring over 600 vehicles for sale
with showroom space for up to 1,000 vehicles. Also, a 400 vehicle
barn find collection is on display.
This vehicle is located in our showroom in Morgantown,
Pennsylvania, conveniently located just 1-hour west of Philadelphia
on the I-76 Pennsylvania Turnpike. The website is
www.classicautomall.com and our phone number is (888) 227-0914.
Please contact us anytime for more information or to come see the
vehicle in person.